THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 14
June 14 in history
What happened on June 14: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1941 and 1973, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Baltic June deportations
14 Jun 1941 — A week before the German invasion, the NKVD deported more than 40,000 people from the annexed Baltic states in a single operation. Men were separated and sent to camps; women, children and the elderly were sent to settlements in Siberia and Kazakhstan.
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— The Relf sisters
14 Jun 1973 — Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf, two sisters aged twelve and fourteen, are surgically sterilised at a federally funded clinic in Montgomery after their mother, who could not read, marks an X on a form. Their case exposes coerced sterilisation of poor women.
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