This Day in History on 14 June
The historical events hold a lot of value for aspirants who are sitting for UPSC competitive exams including the IAS Exam.
On this page, we will list all historical events that occurred on 14 June. The students can refer to them while preparing for all competitive exams and banking exams.
Important Days
- World Blood Donor Day
Important Events
1777: The United States adopted the Stars and Stripes flag.
1789: Whiskey was first made from corn. It was named Bourbon.
1886: Orphanage for little girls was established.
1926: Brazil withdrew from the League of Nations.
1929: Jatindra Nath Das was arrested in Calcutta.
1945: Wavell plan for granting autonomy to India, announced.
1947: Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
1958: Dr. C.V. Raman receives the Lenin Peace Prize in Kremlin.
1962: The European Space Research Organization was established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
1967: China tested the first hydrogen bomb.
1985: M.C. Sharma was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 10-12-1985.
1987: Rajiv Gandhi, PM, rules out the termination of Rs. 1700 crore Bofors gun deal.
1990: Veerendra Verma sworn in as the new Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh.
1992: Tin Bigha activists lathi-charged in the Tin Bigha corridor in Coochbehar.
1995: RBI announces the introduction of appointing ombudsmen to redress grievances and disputes of bank customers.
1999: South Africa’s first black president, Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela, ended his term.
2020: Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide.
Birthday / Anniversary
1444: Nilakantha Somayaji, Indian astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1544)
1868: Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist, and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1880: Satish Chandra Dasgupta, the rural Scientist, was born.
1905: Smt. Hirabai Barodekar, the famous veteran Maharashtrian classical singer was born.
1909: E.M.S. Namboodiripad was born in Palghat in Kerala
1920: Bharat Bhushan, an Indian actor.
1928: Che Guevara, an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.
1946: Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
1952: Kirron Anupam Kher, an Indian theatre, film, and television actress.
1967: Kumar Mangalam Birla, an Indian billionaire industrialist.
1968: RajThackeray, an Indian politician and chairperson of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), the regional political party.
1969: Steffi Graf, German tennis player
1971: Pritam Chakraborty, an Indian composer.
1971: Ganesh Acharya, an Indian choreographer.
Death / Death Anniversary
1825: Pierre Charles L’Enfant, French-American architect, and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (b. 1754)
1916: Govind Ballal Deval, a Marathi Playwright
1920: Max Weber, a German sociologist, jurist, and political economist.
1946: John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator, demonstrating the world’s first working television system.
1961: Sir Karyamanikkam Shrinivas Krishnan died.
2010: Manohar Malgonkar, an Indian Author
2020: Sushant Singh Rajput, an Indian actor.