Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 14
June 14: Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Flag Day in the United States.
- 1645 - English Civil War: In the Battle of Naseby, the main army of King Charles I was destroyed by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.
- 1777 - The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
- 1822 - Charles Babbage (pictured) proposed a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
- 1985 - A group with alleged links to Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847.
- 2001 - Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.