What happens in June 1914?
14 June: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) raises the offical Olympic flag with its characteristic five rings for the first time at the 16th Olympian Congress.
21 June: Death of Bertha von Suttner (b.1843), pacifist and author of Die Waffen nieder! (1889), the most significant literary work on war in the German language until the publication of Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues (1929). Suttner received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905.
28 June: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzogovina. Start of the so-called 'July Crisis'.