june 14th

Total results: 12

History

Walter McGowan wins World Fly-Weight Championship

June 14, 1966

History

John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor of television, died.

June 14, 1946

History

Queen Mary, Aquitania, Empress of Canada, and Empress of Britain arrive in the River Clyde with the first contingent of Australian and New Zealand troops

June 14, 1940

History

Capt John Alcock and Lt Arthur Whitten-Brown take off from Newfoundland on the first non-stop transatlantic flight to Galway

June 14, 1919

History

Birth in Athlone of John McCormack, tenor and papal count

June 14, 1884

History

Death of Edward FitzGerald, poet and translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

June 14, 1883

History

Charles Wood, composer, is born in Armagh

June 14, 1866

History

Government reinforcements begin to march from Cork and the midlands

June 14, 1798

History

Whisky distilled from maize was first produced, by a clergyman, the Rev Elijah Craig. He called the new liquor bourbon because he lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.

June 14, 1789

History

The second session of the second Irish parliament of William III is dissolved on this date

June 14, 1699

History

William of Orange lands at Carrickfergus

June 14, 1690

History

The royalists, loyal to Charles I, suffer a key defeat by the English Parliamentarians at Naseby

June 14, 1645