June 14: Father's Day in various countries (2015); Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1982); Flag Day in the United States
- 1645 – English Civil War: In the Battle of Naseby, the main army of King Charles I was defeated by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.
- 1775 – The United States Army was founded as the Continental Army by an act of the Continental Congress.
- 1822 – In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine (pictured), an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
- 1940 – The Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Lithuania, demanding that the Red Army be allowed to enter the country and form a new pro-Soviet government.
- 1985 – The Schengen Agreement, a treaty to abolish systematic border controls between participating European countries, was signed between five of the ten member states of the European Economic Community.
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