June 14

June 14, 1966

Walter McGowan wins World Fly-Weight Championship

June 14, 1946

John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor of television, died.

June 14, 1940

RMS Queen Mary, Aquitania, Empress of Canada, and Empress of Britain arrive in the River Clyde with troops

June 14, 1919

Capt John Alcock and Lt Arthur Whitten-Brown take off from Newfoundland on the first non-stop transatlantic flight to Galway

June 14, 1884

Birth in Athlone of John McCormack, tenor and papal count

June 14, 1883

Death of Edward FitzGerald, poet and translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

June 14, 1866

Charles Wood, composer, is born in Armagh

June 14, 1798

Government reinforcements begin to march from Cork and the midlands

Whisky distilled from maize was first produced, by a clergyman, the Rev Elijah Craig.

June 14, 1699

The second session of the second Irish parliament of William III is dissolved on this date

June 14, 1690

William of Orange lands at Carrickfergus

June 14, 1645

The royalists, loyal to Charles I, suffer a key defeat by the English Parliamentarians at Naseby