On This Day for June 14 - First prisoners at Auschwitz, Steffi Graf is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-14 10:02 Updated: 2020-06-14 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 14

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Steffi Graf

FEATURED EVENT

1940

First prisoners at Auschwitz

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2009: American basketball coach Phil Jackson won a record-setting 10th NBA championship, as the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Orlando Magic. [ Read our list of the 10 greatest basketball players of all time.]

1982: The surrender of the large Argentine garrison at Port Stanley to the British military concluded the Falkland Islands War, which was fought for the control of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and its dependencies—territory long disputed by the warring nations. [Take our history of war quiz.]

1963: The manned Soviet spacecraft Vostok 5 was launched, and two days later Vostok 6 was sent into orbit carrying cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova, the first woman to travel in space. [Test your knowledge of space exploration.]

1928: Che Guevara—a theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and a guerrilla leader in South America—was born.

1811: American author Harriet Beecher Stowe—whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin fueled antislavery sentiment and was cited among the causes of the Civil War—was born in Litchfield, Connecticut. [ Take our quiz of famous novels.]

1807: Napoleon won the Battle of Friedland, leading to a treaty with Alexander I of Russia. [ How much do you know about Napoleon Bonaparte?]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1946

Donald Trump
president of the United States

1928

Che Guevara
Argentine-Cuban revolutionary

1811

Harriet Beecher Stowe
American writer and educator

1969

Steffi Graf
German tennis player

1982