Events & Holidays In June - 14

Commemoration Day of victims of the Communist Terror (Latvia)

Day of Mourning and Hope (Lithuania)

Flag Day (United States of America)

Freedom Day (Malawi)

Liberation Day (Falkland Islands)

World Blood Donor Day (International)

World Sea Turtle Day (International)

1479  On this day in history birth of giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)   

1529  On this day in history birth of ferdinand, archduke (Austria)/mayor (Bohemia)   

1657  On this day in history birth of cornelis Cruys, [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian/Dutch admiral   

1691  Jan Francisci, composer was born on this day in history.   

1730  On this day in history birth of antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer [or Jul 23 1734]   

1736  On this day in history birth of charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)   

1760  On this day in history birth of candido Jose Ruano, composer   

1763  Johannes Simon Mayr, composer was born on this day in history.   

1144  Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1161  On this day in history death of emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)   

1349  Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44 on this day in history.   

1381  On this day in history death of simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury   

1497  On this day in history death of giovanni Borgia, Duke of Borgia (b. 1474)   

1544  On this day in history death of antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)   

1548  Death of Carpentras, French composer on this day in history.   

1594  On this day in history orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61