History of the Day for:
June 14
- 1775: The Continental Congress established the United States Army.
- 1777: The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
- 1834: Isaac Fischer Jr. patented sandpaper.
- 1846: A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaimed the Republic of California.
- 1881: John McTammany Jr. patented the player piano.
- 1909: Actor/singer Burl Ives was born in Hunt, Ill.
- 1937: Pennsylvania became the first state in the United States to observe Flag Day as a legal holiday.
- 1940: France fell to Nazi Germany; the Nazis opened the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
- 1953: Seven former Southern Conference university sports teams established the Atlantic Coast Conference; Elvis Presley graduated from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tenn.
- 1954: President Eisenhower signed an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1955: Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1959: A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all are killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo's power and would be called "Movimiento Catorce de Junio" (14th of June Movement).
- 1962: Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim.
- 1962: The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
- 1962: The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibits state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they live on a reservation.
- 1966: The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
- 1967: Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
- 1976: The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
- 1982: Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands surrendered to British troops.
- 1985: Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847.
- 1993: President Clinton chose Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg to serve on the Supreme Court.
- 2001: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.