On this day: June 14

Events on June 14

• 1158 The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar. Wikipedia
• 1287 Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria. Wikipedia
• 1618 Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date). Wikipedia
• 1800 War of the Second Coalition: In the Battle of Marengo, Napoleonic forces secured victory over the Habsburgs when defeat had appeared inevitable until the arrival of French troops led by Louis Desaix. Wikipedia
• 1800 The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy. Wikipedia
• 1807 Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition. Wikipedia
• 1839 Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta. Wikipedia
• 1846 Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. Wikipedia
• 1863 American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia. Wikipedia
• 1926 Brazil leaves the League of Nations. Wikipedia
• 1931 A deadly tornado strikes Birmingham, England, damaging 2,221 homes and businesses. Wikipedia
• 1937 Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday. Wikipedia
• 1940 Second World War: Four days after the French government fled Paris, German forces occupied the French capital, a major accomplishment in the Fall Rot operation. Wikipedia
• 1940 World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins. Wikipedia
• 1940 Seven hundred and twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Wikipedia
• 1944 Second World War: The British Army abandoned its attempt to capture the German-occupied city of Caen. Wikipedia
• 1944 World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen. Wikipedia
• 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance. Wikipedia
• 1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. Wikipedia
• 1972 Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashes on approach to Palam International Airport (now Indira Gandhi International Airport) in New Delhi, India, killing 82 of the 87 people on board and four more people on the ground. Wikipedia
• 1982 Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces ending the war. Wikipedia
• 1982 Falklands War: British prime minister Margaret Thatcher announced that white flags were flying over Port Stanley, in advance of the formal surrender of Argentine forces. Wikipedia
• 1986 The Mindbender derails, killing three riders and severely injuring one at the Fantasyland (known today as Galaxyland) indoor amusement park at West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta. Wikipedia
• 2017 The Grenfell Tower fire, a catastrophic fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington, London, UK, leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured. Wikipedia
• 2026 Two helicopters collide mid-air in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing all 6 people on board, including American singer-songwriter Oliver Tree, Argentine YouTuber Gaspi, director and screenwriter Lucas A. Vignale, and Brazilian music producer Lucas Frota. Wikipedia
• 2026 A Bell 206 and AS350 collided in mid-air over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing all 6 people aboard both aircraft including American singer Oliver Tree, Argentine YouTuber Gaspi, Argentine director and screenwriter Lucas A. Vignale, and Brazilian music producer Lucas Frota. Wikipedia

Born on June 14

• 1736 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (died 1806) Wikipedia
• 1798 František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (died 1876) Wikipedia
• 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (died 1896) Wikipedia
• 1838 Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese Field Marshal and politician, 3rd and 9th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1922) Wikipedia
• 1856 Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1922) Wikipedia
• 1864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (died 1915) Wikipedia
• 1868 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943) Wikipedia
• 1903 Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (died 1995) Wikipedia
• 1907 René Char, French poet and author (died 1988) Wikipedia
• 1909 Burl Ives, American actor and singer (died 1995) Wikipedia
• 1917 Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic (died 2007) Wikipedia
• 1924 James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2010) Wikipedia
• 1933 Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (died 1991) Wikipedia
• 1946 Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality, 45th and 47th President of the United States Wikipedia
• 1961 Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer Wikipedia
• 1969 Steffi Graf, German tennis player Wikipedia
• 1972 Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist and engineer, founded KDE Wikipedia
• 1976 Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer and manager Wikipedia
• 1982 Lang Lang, Chinese pianist Wikipedia
• 1989 Lucy Hale, American actress and singer-songwriter Wikipedia
• 1992 Daryl Sabara, American actor Wikipedia
• 1999 Chou Tzuyu, Taiwanese singer Wikipedia

Died on June 14

• 847 Methodius I, patriarch of Constantinople Wikipedia
• 957 Guadamir, bishop of Vic (Spain) Wikipedia
• 1497 Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía, Italian son of Pope Alexander VI (born 1474) Wikipedia
• 1801 Benedict Arnold, American general during the American Revolution later turned British spy (born 1741) Wikipedia
• 1825 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (born 1754) Wikipedia
• 1837 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (born 1798) Wikipedia
• 1914 Adlai Stevenson I, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (born 1835) Wikipedia
• 1920 Max Weber, German sociologist and economist (born 1864) Wikipedia
• 1926 Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (born 1843) Wikipedia
• 1927 Jerome K. Jerome, English author (born 1859) Wikipedia
• 1936 G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1874) Wikipedia
• 1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1901) Wikipedia
• 1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (born 1899) Wikipedia
• 2007 Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Austrian politician, 9th President of Austria (born 1918) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Burchard of Meissen Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Caomhán of Inisheer Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Elisha (Roman Catholic and Lutheran) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Fortunatus of Naples (Roman Catholic) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Francisca de Paula de Jesus (Nhá Chica) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Methodios I of Constantinople Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Richard Baxter (Church of England) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Valerius and Rufinus Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: June 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Commemoration of the Soviet Deportation related observances: Baltic Freedom Day (United States) Wikipedia
• Commemoration of the Soviet Deportation related observances: Commemoration Day for the Victims of Communist Genocide (Latvia) Wikipedia
• Commemoration of the Soviet Deportation related observances: Mourning and Commemoration Day or Leinapäev (Estonia) Wikipedia
• Commemoration of the Soviet Deportation related observances: Mourning and Hope Day (Lithuania) Wikipedia
• Day of Memory for Repressed People (Armenia) Wikipedia
• Flag Day (United States) Wikipedia
• Freedom Day (Malawi) Wikipedia
• Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) Wikipedia
• World Blood Donor Day Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “June 14” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.