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The American racing yacht Resolute beat competitors Vanitie and Defiance in selection trials for the America's Cup with a course record of 30 miles in 3:16:41. However, the outbreak of World War I caused the races to be postponed, and the America Cup competition did not resume until 1920.
June 12 – Bill Kenny, African American tenor vocalist (died 1978) June 19 – Alan Cranston, U.S. Senator from California from 1969 to 1993 (died 2000) June 21 – Rex Applegate, military officer (died 1998) June 26 Kathryn Johnston, elderly African-American police shooting victim from Atlanta, Georgia (died 2006) Doc Williams, musician (died ...
The Great Salem fire of 1914, on June 25–26, destroyed 1,376 buildings and made over 18,000 people homeless or jobless in Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. . It was among the last of the great industrial fires that plagued North American cities during the 19th century into the early 20th century.
June 21–23 African, East African: Battle of Bukoba. June 22 Eastern: Mackensen again breaks through the Russian lines in the Lviv area. June 23 – July 7 Italian: First Battle of the Isonzo. June 27 Eastern: The Austro-Hungarians re-enter Lviv. June 28 – July 5 Middle Eastern, Gallipoli: The British win the Battle of Gully Ravine. June 29
The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. A complex web of alliances, coupled with the miscalculations of numerous political and military leaders (who either regarded war as ...
The imperial couple were dead by 11:30 a.m on 28 June 1914; [101] Sophie was dead on arrival at the Governor's residence, and Franz Ferdinand died 10 minutes later. [ 102 ] There is a myth which states that Princip had eaten a sandwich at Schiller's delicatessen just prior to the shooting, but there are no primary sources from the time which ...
Philippine–American War, June 2, 1899 – June 15, 1913 Philippine Declaration of Independence, June 12, 1898; ... World War I, June 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918
1914 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 914th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1914 ...