Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 14
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This is a list of selected June 14 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.June 14: Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Flag Day in the United States
- 1645 – English Civil War: In the Battle of Naseby, the main army of King Charles I was destroyed by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.
- 1777 – The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
- 1822 – Charles Babbage (pictured) proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
- 1985 – A group with alleged links to Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847.
- 2001 – Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
