Day in History - “14 June”
What happened on 14 June in History: If you're curious about today's historical events, you've come to the right source. Each day presents us with a range of significant occurrences that have shaped both Indian and world history. Today, we commemorate several noteworthy events that have taken place on this very day in the past.
World Blood Donor Day
Every year countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day (WBDD). The event serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood.
1. 1381 - Richard II in England meets leaders of the Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
2. 1658 - Battle of the Dunes: English and French forces defeat the Spanish near Dunkirk during Franco-Spanish War.
3. 1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Stars and Stripes as the first national flag of the United States, designed by Francis Hopkinson, replacing the Grand Union flag.
4. 1807 - Napoleon won the Battle of Friedland, leading to a treaty with Alexander I of Russia.
5. 1928 - Che Guevara—a theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and a guerrilla leader in South America—was born.
6. 1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin.
7. 1940 - First prisoners at Auschwitz
On this day in 1940, the first transport of Polish political prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, which became Nazi Germany's largest concentration, extermination, and slave-labour camp, where more than one million people died.
8. 1942 - Anne Frank begins her diary.
9. 1957 - Dr. C.V. Raman was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in the Kremlin.
10. 1975 - USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing.
Venera 10, which entered orbit around Venus on Oct. 23, 1975 and landed two days later, sent back black-and-white images of flattened lava rocks and measured the speed of the wind at the surface.
11. 1982 - Argentina surrenders to Great Britain, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict.
12. 2013 - The US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property.
13. 2019 - Petition to create world's first "time free zone" on Sommaroy island which has complete daylight for 2 months, delivered to the Norwegian parliament.
14. 2021 - Cristiano Ronaldo removes sponsors coke bottles from his press table at the European Championships, prompting the company share price to drop $4 billion.
15. 2022 - Denmark and Canada agree to split the arctic Hans Island, ending their 50-year "Whiskey War", where each country laid claim by buying whiskey on the island.
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