WHAT HAPPENED ON 14. JUNE
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Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War. (14. June 1863)

Trade unions are legalised in Canada. (14. June 1872)

Hawaii becomes a United States territory. (14. June 1900)

The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy. (14. June 1900)

Norway grants women the right to vote. (14. June 1907)

John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. (14. June 1919)

Brazil leaves the League of Nations (14. June 1926)

Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday. (14. June 1937)

U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act. (14. June 1937)

World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat. (14. June 1940)

The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence. (14. June 1940)

A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp. (14. June 1940)

June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins. (14. June 1941)

World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen. (14. June 1944)

World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon. (14. June 1945)

Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space. (14. June 1949)

UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau. (14. June 1951)

The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. (14. June 1952)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance. (14. June 1954)

Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. (14. June 1955)

   
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