Unix Timestamp: 1718323200
Friday, June 14. 2024, 12:00:00 AM UTC

At least two people die as a building collapses in Nairobi, Kenya. //www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Kenyanews/Deaths-in-another-Nairobi-building-collapse-13193.html (Capital FM)

Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expresses alarm at events in Kyrgyzstan. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10306018.stm (BBC)

Cs are quickly set up along the Kyrgyzstan border for the tens of thousands of people fleeing the riots in Kyrgyzstan . //english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/06/201061318596598750.html (Aljazeera)

2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis and 2010 South Kyrgyzstan riots:

The magnitude 6.8 Msubw/sub 2008 Iwate Earthquake shakes Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures on Japan's main island of Honshū, killing at least 6 people and injuring at least 8 others.//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7454283.stm (BBC News) //www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23862293-2,00.html (AFP via News Limited) //www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/06/14/ap5116735.html (AP via Forbes)

September 14 – Expo 2008 is held in Zaragoza, Spain, with the topic Water and sustainable development.

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, kills 12 and injures more than 400.

A U.S. federal jury convicts former Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the 1964 deaths of two African-American teenagers in Mississippi. //www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-14-seale-convicted_N.htm (AP via USA Today)

Music producer and alleged con artist Lou Pearlman is arrested in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia and deported to the United States territory of Guam. He is accused of defrauding over 1,800 individual investors out of a total of $317-million. He will eventually be returned to Florida to face criminal charges and a growing list of civil litigation. //www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-bk-pearlman061407,0,49595.story?coll=orl-home-headlines (Orlando Sentinel)

In Karachi, Pakistan, a car bomb in front of the U.S. Consulate kills 12 Pakistanis and injures 50.

A new terrorist organisation, Al Qanoon, claimed responsibility for an earlier suicide bomb attack aimed at the US consulate in Karachi in Pakistan. 11 people were killed in the bomb attack, and approximately 45 injured. The US has subsequently closed all diplomatic missions in Pakistan. (See also 2002 Karachi consulate attack.)

Astrophysics – An asteroid (2002 MN), the size of a soccer field, barely misses hitting the Earth. (Closest approach )

Thabo Mbeki is elected President of South Africa.

HackerKevin Poulsen pleads guilty to 7 counts of mail fraud, wire and computer fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.

The New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup, in "'7"' Games over the Vancouver Canucks. It was New York's first Stanley Cup since 1940.

Multipartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi.

A small wildfire starts in Montana just north of the boundary for Yellowstone National Park. The Storm Creek fire expands into the park, then merges with dozens of other drought-inspired fires. Eventually, over of Yellowstone – 36% of the park's area – burns before firefighters gain control in late September.

The Falklands War ends: Formal surrender of Argentine forces, and liberation of the Falkland Islanders.

The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.

June 23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.

President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.

Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, whereby the U.S. will return control of Okinawa.//www.niraikanai.wwma.net/pages/archive/rev71.html www.niraikanai.wwma.net

Norway begins oil production in the North Sea.

June 15 – Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition).

The Vatican abolishes the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" (index of banned books).

The Flag of the United States Army is formally dedicated.

The words under God are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Albert II, a rhesus monkey, becomes the first primate to enter space, on U.S. Hermes projectV-2rocket "Blossom IVB", but is killed on impact at return.

Laurence Olivier's "Henry V" opens in the United States nearly 2 years after its release in England. It is the first Shakespeare film in color, and critics hail it as the finest film of a Shakespeare play ever made.

The Baruch Plan is proposed to the United Nations

A tornado on the Detroit River kills 17.

Tientsin Incident: The Japanese blockade the British concession in Tianjin, China, beginning a crisis which almost causes an Anglo-Japanese war in the summer of 1939.

Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

Max Baer defeats chion Primo Carnera for the world heavyweight boxing title.

The overloaded pleasure craft "Saint-Philibert", carrying trippers home to Nantes from Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the river Loire in France over 450 drown.

Bureau of Narcotics (under Department of the Treasury) established.

Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina.

U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.

Sir John William AlcockKBEDSC together with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John\\'s, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.

The 2 millionth Ford Model T rolls off the line.

The town of Heppner, Oregon, is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst that resulted in a flash flood that kills an estimated 238 people.

The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.

Sidney Faithorn Green, a priest in the Church of England, is tried and convicted for using Ritualist practices.

Michel Domingue becomes head of state of Haiti.

Trade unions are legalised in Canada.//www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=ArchivedFeaturesParams=A218 Reference from the Canada Encyclopedia

The Austro-Prussian War begins, when the Austrians and most of the medium German states declare war on Prussia.

American Civil War ndash Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.

The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Bear Flag Revolt: American settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.

Launceston Church Grammar School opens for the first time in Tasmania

June 15 ndash The Auspicious Incident: Mahmud II, sultan of Ottoman Empire, crushes the last mutiny of janissaries in Istanbul.

King Badi VII of Sennar surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.

Battle of Friedland: Napoleon decisively defeats Bennigsen's Russian army.

Battle of Marengo: Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near Marengo, Italy.

"Bounty" mutiny survivors, including Captain William Bligh and 18 others, reach Timor after a nearly journey in an open boat.

The Stars and Stripes is adopted by the Continental Congress as the Flag of the United States.

American Revolution: The Continental Congress names George Washington as commander of the Continental Army.

Thomas Savery demonstrates his first steam engine to the Royal Society.

King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront James II.

June 25 ndash Colonial authorities of Rhode Island, Plymouth, and Massachusetts attempt a negotiation with Metacomet (King Philip), leader of the Wanoags, and seek guarantees of fidelity from the Nipmuck and Narragansett tribes.

Second Battle of Schooneveld: The Dutch fleet again defeats the Anglo-French fleet.

Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) and Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659): Battle of the Dunes: A Spanish force attempting to lift a siege of Dunkirk is defeated by the French and English. England is then given Dunkirk for its assistance in the victory.

English Civil War ndash Battle of Naseby: 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.

The "Success", last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Passengers of the Arbella, including Anne Bradstreet, America's first poet of significance, finally set foot in the New World in Salem, MA

Thirty Years\\\' War: Leading an army of 13.000, king Gustav Adolf of Sweden enter the Thirty Years\\\' War on protestant side by making landfall at Peenemünde, Pomerania.

The first breach-of-promiselawsuit: Rev. Gerville Pooley, in Virginia, files against Cicely Jordan, but loses.

Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper "Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, c." in Amsterdam (approximate date).

William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.

Rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies with the French against the English. He later begins holding parliamentary assemblies.

Peasants\\\\\\' Revolt: Rebels destroy John of Gaunt's Savoy Palace and storm the Tower of London, killing the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor. King Richard II of England meets the leaders of the revolt and agrees to reforms such as fair rents and the abolition of serfdom.

Remnants of the Song Chinese court in Fuzhou province conduct the coronation ceremony for the Prince Zhao Shi to become Emperor Duanzong of Song.

King Valdemar I of Sweden is defeated by his brother Magnus in the Battle of Hova, after which Magnus deposes him.