Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 14

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 * 1646 – Franco-Spanish War: French and Spanish fleets fought the inconclusive Battle of Orbetello, with sailing vessels of both sides having to be towed into action by galleys due to light winds.
 * 1777 – The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
 * 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.
 * 1822 – In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine (pictured), an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
 * 1846 – Settlers in Sonoma began rebelling against Mexico, later proclaiming the California Republic and raising a homemade flag with a bear and a star.
 * 1900 – The second of the German Naval Laws was passed, authorising the doubling in size of the Imperial German Navy.
 * 1934 – The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia.
 * 1940 – The Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Lithuania demanding that the Red Army be allowed to enter the country and form a pro-Soviet government.
 * 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.
 * 1944 – Second World War: The British Army abandoned its attempt to capture the German-occupied city of Caen.
 * 1966 – The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books.
 * 1971 – Emerson, Lake & Palmer released the progressive rock album Tarkus.
 * 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.
 * 1992 – Swedish woman Helena Andersson disappeared in Mariestad, one suspect were ”the man with the pilot glasses".
 * 1996 – After an 81-day standoff sparked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jordan, Montana, the Christian Patriot group Montana Freemen surrendered to the FBI.
 * 2017 – A fire severely damaged Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, killing 72 people.
 * Born/died: |Henry Vane the Younger |d|1662| Harriet Beecher Stowe |b|1811| Priscilla Cooper Tyler |b|1816| Leonidas Polk |d|1864| Alois Alzheimer |b|1864| Anna B. Eckstein |b|1868| Karl Landsteiner |b|1868|Mary Cassatt |d|1926| Emmeline Pankhurst |d|1928| Jang Jin-young|b|1972| Heike Friedrich |b|1976| Burhanuddin Harahap |d|1987| Moon Tae-il|b|1994| Mimi Parent |d|2005| Qiao Shi |d|2015

June 14


 * 1381 – During the Peasants' Revolt in England, rebels stormed the Tower of London, killing Simon Sudbury, Lord Chancellor, and Robert Hales, Lord High Treasurer (both pictured).
 * 1644 – First English Civil War: Prince Maurice abandoned his siege of Lyme Regis in Dorset after learning of the approach of a Parliamentarian relief force.
 * 1934 – The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia.
 * 2014 – War in Donbas: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, killing all 49 people on board.