On This Day
14 June
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1856 Ahmad Raza Khan was born in Bareilly, Rohilkhand, British India, a city now in Uttar Pradesh, India. He later founded the Barelvi tradition of Islam. Deobandis and Barelvis are the two major groups of Muslims in the Subcontinent apart from the Shia.
- 2010 Manohar Malgonkar, author of both fiction and nonfiction in the English language, died. He was also an army officer, a big game hunter, a civil servant, a mine owner and a farmer.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1820 John Bartlett, editor, compiler of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, was born.
- 1907 Women in Norway won the right to vote.
- 1928 Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, writer, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist, was born. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
- 1936 G K Chesterton, English poet-essayist, died at his home in Beaconsfield, England.
- 1942 Anne Frank began her diary which she received as a birthday present on June 12.
- 1969 Steffi Graf, German former professional tennis player, was born. She was ranked world No. 1 for a record 377 weeks and won 22 major singles titles, the second-most since the start of the Open Era in 1968 and third-most of all-time.
- 2002 2002 MN, a 73-meter asteroid, just missed earth, coming three times closer to Earth than the Moon. It was first discovered three days after its closest approach.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Blood Donor Day was organised for the first time in 2005, by a joint initiative of the World Health Organization, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products, and to thank blood donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts of blood. It is held on June 14 each year.
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