24 Khordad 1385

Events

• 1287 (739 years ago) Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
• 1846 (180 years ago) Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
• 1863 (163 years ago) American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
• 1926 (100 years ago) Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
• 1955 (71 years ago) Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1982 (44 years ago) Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces ending the war.
• 2017 (9 years ago) The Grenfell Tower fire, a catastrophic fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington, London, UK, leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured.
• 2026 Two helicopters collide mid-air in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing all 6 people on board, including American singer-songwriter Oliver Tree, Argentine YouTuber Gaspi, director and screenwriter Lucas A. Vignale, and Brazilian music producer Lucas Frota.

Births

• 1736 (290 years ago) Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (died 1806)
• 1811 (215 years ago) Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (died 1896)
• 1864 (162 years ago) Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (died 1915)
• 1868 (158 years ago) Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
• 1924 (102 years ago) James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2010)
• 1946 (80 years ago) Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality, 45th and 47th President of the United States
• 1969 (57 years ago) Steffi Graf, German tennis player
• 1989 (37 years ago) Lucy Hale, American actress and singer-songwriter

Deaths

• 1837 (189 years ago) Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (born 1798)
• 1920 (106 years ago) Max Weber, German sociologist and economist (born 1864)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Mary Cassatt, American-French painter (born 1843)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Jerome K. Jerome, English author (born 1859)
• 1936 (90 years ago) G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1874)
• 1968 (58 years ago) Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1901)
• 1986 (40 years ago) Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (born 1899)
• 2007 (19 years ago) Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Austrian politician, 9th President of Austria (born 1918)

All 348 events, births and deaths of June 14