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14th June 1982 : The Falkland Islands War ends when Argentina surrenders to Great Britain after a war lasting 6 weeks
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14th June 1985 : TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome is hijacked by Shiite Hezbollah terrorists 2 of the Lebanese terrorists, armed with grenades and a 9-mm. pistol, then forced the plane to land in Beirut, Lebanon .
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14th June 1995 : Discussions are again centering on replacing the dollar bill with a dollar coin by treasury officials and the latest design is smaller than the original famous Susan B Anthony Dollar
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14th June 1999 : The world's biggest retailer, Wal-Mart and the UK supermarket chain ASDA have agreed to a £6.72bn ($10.8bn) for supermarket group Asda beating out the offer from the Kingfisher group.
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14th June, 2005 : A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami warning which forced the evacuation of thousands of residents of Crescent City and other surrounding coastal communities. There were no major injuries and very little damage that occurred, and the tsunami never happened.
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14th June, 2007 : Over two hundred people, twenty-nine of them children, were rescued by police after being held as slave workers brick kilns in China. Over thirty-five thousand police were sent to the central province of Henan to 7,500 different brick kilns in the area after the media reported of child slavery inn brick kilns in a neighboring province.
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14th June, 2008 : Famed Brazilian samba singer, Jamelao, died at the age of ninety-five. The singer's full name was Jose Bispo Clementino dos Santos and he had a five decade singing career and recorded over twenty records.
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14th June, 2012 : After a decision by the United States to suspend investment sanctions against Burma, Coca Cola has stated that it would resume business operations in Burma once the US started issuing licenses to start investment in the country. Coca Cola had not operated in Burma for sixty years and the country was only one of three that the company had not been doing business with, the other two countries were Cuba and North Korea
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15th June 1904 : An excursion steamer The General Slocum, carrying more than 1,300 people from St. Mark's German Lutheran Church for their 17th annual Sunday school picnic burst into flames on New York's East River with the loss of over 1000 lives
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15th June 1920 : A mob of 5,000 people lynched three African-American men in Duluth, Minnesota, who were jailed for the alleged rape of a 17 year old white woman
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15th June 1965 : U.S. planes bomb targets in North Vietnam, as part of Operation Rolling Thunder, launched in March 1965
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15th June 1985 : Following the Hijacking of a TWA Boeing 727 Jet Airliner by members of the Islamic Holy War Fighters, after landing in Beirut Shot and Killed an American Marine and threatened to kill more unless demands were met.
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15th June 1996 : The IRA detonates a massive bomb outside the Arndale shopping centre at lunch time injuring 200 mostly by flying glass, and seven are said to be in a serious condition. The IRA had issued a telephone warning at 1000 or the deaths and injuries would have been much more severe.
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15th June 1999 : As Yugoslav forces pull out of Kosova as part of the ageed NATO peace plan, more evidence emerges of the mass killings committed by Serb Forces on ethnic Albanians in Kosova. The peace plan has called for the withdrawel of Serb Forces and the disarming of the Kosovo Liberation Army KLA
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15th June, 2005 : Microsoft encountered criticism for censoring Chinese blogs. The censorship involved Microsoft's MSN service, in which Chinese bloggers were blocked from using such words as "demonstration", "democracy, "human rights", and "freedom". Scrutineers labeled the company's actions as giving concessions to the Chinese government, while Microsoft defended itself by saying that it will abide by all laws of the countries in which it operates.
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15th June 2005 : Two weeks after Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a spring break vacation in Aruba, police begin a detailed search and investigation into her disappearance. A number of suspects are arrested but no body is found and no charges are bought. Currently the case is still unsolved.
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15th June, 2010 : Landslides caused by flooding in Bangladesh killed at least fifty-three people, while many more remained missing. The landslides caused by heavy rain and flooding buried many houses and buildings under mud, and many rescue efforts were stalled by mud blocking roads into the area.
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16th June 1884 : The first American roller coaster ( switchback railway ) in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York
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16th June 1961 : Rudolf Nureyev , the world renowned dancer from the Soviet Union's Kirov Opera Ballet Company, defects during a stopover in Paris.
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16th June 1992 : A controversial book has been published about Princess Diana entitled "Diana: Her True Story". The author Andrew Morton insists he has reliable sources for the the book including claims about her attempted suicide on several occasions over the last decade. But Buckingham Palace has said Princess Diana did not co-operate with the biography in any way whatsoever