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June 14, 1998 "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show June 14, 1998 World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany June 14, 1998 NBA Finals, Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4 games to 2 June 14, 1996 "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released June 14, 1996 Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire vs. Indians June 14, 1995 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games June 14, 1995 Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win June 14, 1994 Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3 June 14, 1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth June 14, 1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey June 14, 1992 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton June 14, 1992 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2 June 14, 1992 Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic June 14, 1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate June 14, 1992 Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play June 14, 1991 "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens June 14, 1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in New York City June 14, 1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands June 14, 1990 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1 June 14, 1990 NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season June 14, 1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional June 14, 1989 Ground breaking begins in Minnesota on world's largest mall June 14, 1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams June 14, 1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan June 14, 1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame June 14, 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman June 14, 1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her June 14, 1987 "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years June 14, 1987 41st NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2 June 14, 1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor June 14, 1987 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic June 14, 1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV June 14, 1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles June 14, 1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847 June 14, 1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members June 14, 1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx June 14, 1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict June 14, 1981 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young June 14, 1980 Theme From New York, New York by Frank Sinatra hits #32 June 14, 1979 Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup vs. England, in 40 3 overs June 14, 1979 New York Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record June 14, 1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands June 14, 1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR June 14, 1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution June 14, 1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV, syndication June 14, 1976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4 June 14, 1975 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61) June 14, 1975 Janis Ian releases "At 17" June 14, 1975 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 10 for Venus landing June 14, 1974 Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings June 14, 1973 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe June 14, 1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117 June 14, 1970 Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight June 14, 1969 John and Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show June 14, 1969 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 June 14, 1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing June 14, 1967 Mariner 5 Launch, Venus Flyby June 14, 1967 Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV June 14, 1967 U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit June 14, 1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured June 14, 1966 Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball June 14, 1965 Beatles release album "Beatles VI" June 14, 1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11, 1-0 June 14, 1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published June 14, 1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open June 14, 1963 New York Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR June 14, 1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days June 14, 1961 106 degrees F, hottest temperature in San Francisco June 14, 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open June 14, 1958 58th U.S. Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa June 14, 1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus June 14, 1958 Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela June 14, 1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois, state record June 14, 1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ June 14, 1956 "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 221 performances June 14, 1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge June 14, 1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal June 14, 1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn June 14, 1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia June 14, 1953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight June 14, 1952 52nd U.S. Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas June 14, 1952 Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings June 14, 1952 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2) June 14, 1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus June 14, 1952 Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss June 14, 1951 "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater New York City for 37 performances June 14, 1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau June 14, 1949 State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor June 14, 1949 WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting June 14, 1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia June 14, 1946 Canadian Library Association established June 14, 1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan June 14, 1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France June 14, 1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport, Connecticut June 14, 1942 Anne Frank begins her diary June 14, 1942 French government of Reynaud resigns June 14, 1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released June 14, 1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita, Kansas June 14, 1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia June 14, 1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens, 3 million killed there June 14, 1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral June 14, 1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II June 14, 1938 Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge June 14, 1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin June 14, 1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal, kid books author June 14, 1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens June 14, 1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends June 14, 1934 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna June 14, 1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City June 14, 1934 WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air June 14, 1933 Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games June 14, 1932 German government of von Papen forms June 14, 1931 French "St. Philbert" overturns off St. Nazaire France, drowns 450 June 14, 1931 Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler June 14, 1930 VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht June 14, 1929 Prussia and Vatican sign Concord June 14, 1928 Republican National Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover June 14, 1926 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60) June 14, 1924 Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate vs. South Africa June 14, 1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY June 14, 1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane) June 14, 1922 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa June 14, 1922 Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament June 14, 1922 President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore June 14, 1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown) June 14, 1917 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London June 14, 1917 Gen Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I June 14, 1907 Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers June 14, 1907 Norway restricts woman's voting rights June 14, 1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia June 14, 1904 Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants June 14, 1901 1st golf championship is played June 14, 1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins June 14, 1898 France signs Niger Convention June 14, 1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass) June 14, 1880 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47 June 14, 1876 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Philadelphia Athletics) June 14, 1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise June 14, 1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games June 14, 1864 Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay June 14, 1864 U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg June 14, 1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia June 14, 1861 Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance June 14, 1850 Fire destroys part of San Francisco June 14, 1847 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner June 14, 1846 Belgian Liberal Party forms June 14, 1846 California declares independence from Mexico in Sonoma June 14, 1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario June 14, 1839 1st Henley Regatta held June 14, 1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine June 14, 1834 Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper June 14, 1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont June 14, 1800 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria June 14, 1789 Capt William Blighs reaches Timor June 14, 1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag June 14, 1775 U.S. Army founded June 14, 1755 1e edition of Dr. Johnsons "Dictionary" June 14, 1673 Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet June 14, 1658 Battle at Dunes: English and French fleet beat Spanish June 14, 1645 Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax beats royalists June 14, 1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts June 14, 1634 Russia and Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov June 14, 1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses June 14, 1615 Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis June 14, 1597 At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands June 14, 1565 Catharina de Medici and Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism June 14, 1541 Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret June 14, 1535 Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis |