What happend on 14th June

13.06
15.06
1941

Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians begun.

1940

A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

1940

World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.

1940

World War II: Paris falls under German occupation.

1937

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

1919

John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

1905

Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's classic film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).

1900

Hawaii becomes a United States territory.

1900

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

1872

Trade unions are legalised in Canada.