Historical Events -  June 14

1777: The United States adopted the Stars and Stripes flag.

1789 : Whiskey was first made from corn. It was named Bourbon.

1926 : Brazil withdrew from the League of Nations.

1945 : Wavell plan for granting autonomy to India, announced.

1962 : The European Space Research Organization was established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.

1967: China tested the first hydrogen bomb.

1999 : South Africa’s first black president, Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela, ended his term.

2020 : Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide.

 

Famous Birthdays – June 14

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. 

1971: Pritam Chakraborty, an Indian composer.

1971: Ganesh Acharya, an Indian choreographer.

 

Death Anniversaries -  June 14

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.

2020: Sushant Singh Rajput, an Indian actor.