June 14
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| - | *[[1497]] - [[Giovanni Borgia]], Duke of Borgia (assassinated) | + | *[[1497]] - [[Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía]], Duke of Borgia (assassinated) |
| *[[1907]] - [[Adolf Daens]], Flemish priest and activist (b. [[1839]]) | *[[1907]] - [[Adolf Daens]], Flemish priest and activist (b. [[1839]]) | ||
| *[[1920]] - [[Max Weber]], German sociologist (b. [[1864]]) | *[[1920]] - [[Max Weber]], German sociologist (b. [[1864]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants' Revolt.
- 1648 - Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
- 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables."
- 1905 - Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein's film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).
- 1940 - Nazi Germany's occupation of Paris, France begins
- 1966 - Abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
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Births
- 1928 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-Cuban physician, author, guerrilla leader and politician (d. 1967)
- 1933 – Jerzy Kosiński, Polish author (d. 1999)
- 1983 – Louis Garrel, French actor
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Deaths
- 1497 - Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía, Duke of Borgia (assassinated)
- 1907 - Adolf Daens, Flemish priest and activist (b. 1839)
- 1920 - Max Weber, German sociologist (b. 1864)
- 1927 - Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
- 1936 - G. K. Chesterton, English author (b. 1874)
- 1986 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899)
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