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Saturday, 14 June 2025

1994

The New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win their first Stanley Cup Championship in 54 years.

1985

TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.

1982

The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.

1976

The trial of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther, begins at Oxford Crown Court .

1967

Mariner program: ''Mariner 5'' is launched toward Venus.

1966

The Vatican announces the abolition of the ''Index Librorum Prohibitorum'' (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.

1965

Nguyen Cao Ky became Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyen Van Thieu became the figurehead chief of state.

1962

The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.

The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibits state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they live on a reservation.

1959

A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all are killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army.

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