July 14
is the 195th day (196th in
leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. "Quatorze Juillet" (Fourteenth of July in French) is
Bastille Day, the French national holiday celebrating the storming of the Bastille in 1789 during the
French Revolution.
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1223 - In
France,
Louis VIII becomes
King of France upon the death of his father,
Philip II of France.
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1789 -
French Revolution: Citizens of
Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
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1791 - The
Priestley Riots drive
Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the
French Revolution, out of
Birmingham,
England.
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1798 - The
Sedition Act becomes
United States law making it a
federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the
United States government.
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1825 - The
Jefferson Literary and Debating Society was founded by 16 disgruntled members of the now-defunct
Patrick Henry Society in Room 7, West
Lawn.
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1827 - The first
Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the
Hawaiian Islands by
Fathers Abraham Armand and
Alexis Bachelot of
France and
Patrick Short of the
United Kingdom, members of the
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It would be the foundation of the present-day
Diocese of Honolulu.
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1902 -
The Campanile in
St Mark's Square,
Venice collapses, also demolishing the
loggetta.
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1933 -
Gleichschaltung: In
Germany, all
political parties are outlawed except the
Nazi Party.
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1940 -
World War II:
Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the
7th Army Corps consisting of
British,
Canadian and
New Zealand troops.
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1943 - In
Joplin, Missouri,
George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first
United States National Monument in honor of a
black American.
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1948 -
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the
Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the
Italian Parliament.
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1954 - The
central region of the
United States suffers extremely hot weather, with the temperature reaching 118° F (48° C) in
Warsaw and
Union, Missouri, and 117° F (47° C) in
East St. Louis, Illinois, setting new all-time state record high temperatures.
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1958 -
Iraqi Revolution: In
Iraq the
monarchy is overthrown by
Arab nationalists and
Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation's new leader.
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1965 -
Mariner 4 flyby of
Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
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1966 - In
Chicago, Illinois,
Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their
dormitory.
*1966 - A fire at a mental hospital in
Guatemala City kills 225.
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1967 -
Eddie Mathews becomes the seventh member of the
500 home run club with a
home run at
Candlestick Park in
San Francisco, California.
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1968 -
Hank Aaron becomes the eighth member of the
500 home run club with a
home run off Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants at Fulton County Stadium.
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1969 -
Large denominations of United States currency, namely the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills, are officially withdrawn from circulation by the
Federal Reserve System due to "lack of use," leaving the
$100 bill as the largest unit of United States currency. [
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1981 -
MCLN bombs a popular cinema in
Bangui,
Central African Republic. Afterwards a declaration is issued, demanding withdrawal of
French troops from the country.
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1984 -
New Zealand elects the
Fourth Labour Government bringing in
David Lange as
Prime Minister of New Zealand, and thus breaking nine years of
National party governance under
Robert Muldoon. It was this government that introduced the world's first and only nuclear free legislation.
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1988 -
Volkswagen's automobile plant in
Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania - the first auto assembly plant operated by a non-
American car manufacturer in the
United States - closes after little more than a decade of operation. The plant built
Volkswagen's
Rabbit model in its first six years, then produced the
Golf and some
Jetta models until its closing.
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1989 -
F-16 first kill by an
Israeli Air Force pilot shooting down a
Syrian MIG-21.
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1992 - A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination
Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the "
Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"
Museum and several other local businesses and attractions in the process.
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1995 - The
MP3 format was named.
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2000 -
George Speight, the principal instigator of the
Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with
treason.
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2002 - During
Bastille Day celebrations,
French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.
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2006 - The verdict in the
Italian Football Match Fixing Scandal was delivered-
Juventus,
Lazio and
Fiorentina were all relegated.
AC Milan were spared relegation.
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2006 â€"
Hezbollah declares all-out war on
Israel.
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1454 -
Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d.
1494)
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1602 -
Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d.
1661)
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1608 -
George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d.
1657)
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1610 -
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.
1670)
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1634 -
Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d.
1719)
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1671 -
Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d.
1732)
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1675 -
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d.
1747)
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1676 -
Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d.
1763)
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1696 -
William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d.
1761)
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1721 -
John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d.
1807)
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1743 -
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d.
1816)
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1801 -
Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d.
1858)
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1816 -
Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d.
1882)
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1829 -
Edward White Benson,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
1896)
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1857 -
Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d.
1928)
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1859 -
Willy Hess, German violinist (d.
1928)
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1860 -
Owen Wister, American author (d.
1938)
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1862 -
Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d.
1918)
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1865 -
Arthur Capper, Newspaper publisher and politician (d.
1951)
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1868 -
Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d.
1926)
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1874 - Khedive
Abbas II of Egypt (d.
1944)
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1885 - King
Sisavang Vong of Laos (d.
1959)
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1891 -
Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d.
1977)
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1893 -
Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d.
1965)
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1896 -
Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d.
1936)
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1898 -
A. B. "Happy" Chandler, 44th & 49th
Governor of Kentucky,
U.S. Senator from Kentucky and 2nd
Baseball commissioner (d.
1991)
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1901 -
Gerald Finzi, British composer (d.
1956)
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1904 -
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish author (d.
1991)
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1906 -
Tom Carvel, Greek-born businessman and inventor (d.
1990)
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1910 -
William Hanna, American animator (d.
2001)
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1911 -
Terry-Thomas, British actor (d.
1990)
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1912 -
Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d.
1991)
* 1912 -
Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d.
1967)
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1913 -
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., 38th
President of the United States*
1918 -
Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director
* 1918 -
Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director
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1919 -
Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d.
1987)
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1921 -
Leon Garfield, English children's author (d.
1996)
* 1921 -
Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1923 -
Dale Robertson, American actor
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1924 -
James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
1926 -
Harry Dean Stanton, American actor
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1927 -
John Chancellor, American television commentator (d.
1996)
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1928 -
Nancy Olson, American actress
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1930 -
Polly Bergen, American actress, singer, and entrepreneur
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1932 -
Roosevelt Grier, American football player, actor, and minister
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1937 -
Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
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1938 -
Jerry Rubin, American activist (d.
1994)
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1939 -
Karel Gott, Czech singer
* 1939 -
George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
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1941 -
Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
* 1941 -
Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
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1942 -
Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
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1944 -
Billy McCool, Baseball player
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1946 -
John Wood, Australian actor
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1947 -
Claudia Kennedy, retired U.S. Army lieutenant general
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1950 -
Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d.
1999)
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1951 -
Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d.
2003)
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1956 -
Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor
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1961 -
Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
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1965 -
Igor Khoroshev, Russian keyboard player (
Yes)
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1966 -
Charles Edward Ambler, British noble
* 1966 -
Tanya Donelly, American musician (
Belly)
* 1966 -
Ellen Reid, Canadian musician (
Crash Test Dummies)
* 1966 -
Matthew Fox, American actor
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1967 -
Robin Ventura, baseball player
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1971 -
Bubba Ray Dudley, American professional wrestler
* 1971 -
Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator
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1974 -
Matt Evans, Screenwriter
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1975 -
Taboo, American rapper
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1975 -
Tim Hudson, baseball player
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1976 -
Geraint Jones, English cricketer
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1977 -
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden*
1979 -
Bernie Castro, Baseball player
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1988 -
James Vaughan, English footballer
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1989 -
Sean Flynn-Amir, American actor
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664 -
Deusdedit of Canterbury,
Archbishop of Canterbury*
1223 - King
Philip II of France (b.
1165)
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1270 -
Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury*
1274 - Saint
Bonaventure (b.
1221)
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1575 -
Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
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1614 -
Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b.
1550)
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1671 -
Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b.
1599)
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1723 -
Claude Fleury, French historian (b.
1640)
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1742 -
Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b.
1662)
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1766 -
František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b.
1674)
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1774 -
James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b.
1682)
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1780 -
Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b.
1713)
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1789 -
Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b.
1721)
* 1789 -
Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the
Bastille, murdered during the
Storming of the Bastille (b.
1740)
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1790 -
Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b.
1717)
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1817 -
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b.
1766)
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1827 -
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b.
1788)
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1834 -
Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b.
1763)
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1850 -
August Neander, German theologian (b.
1789)
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1881 -
Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b.
1860)
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1887 -
Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer (b.
1812)
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1904 -
Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (b.
1824)
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1907 -
William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b.
1838)
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1917 -
Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b.
1887)
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1954 -
Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1866)
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1965 -
Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Presidential candidate (b.
1900)
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1967 -
Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b.
1880)
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1968 -
Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b.
1892)
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1984 -
Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b.
1928)
* 1984 -
Philippe Wynne, American musician (b.
1941)
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1994 -
César Tovar, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player (b.
1940)
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1998 -
Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur (b.
1909)
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1999 -
Gar Samuelson, American musician (
Megadeth)
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2000 -
William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b.
1920)
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2002 -
JoaquÃn Balaguer,
President of the Dominican Republic (b.
1906)
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2003 -
Tex Schramm, American football general manager (b.
1920)
* 2003 -
Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novellist (b.
1926)
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France and all
French dependencies -
Bastille Day.
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Kiribati -
Independence Day, 3rd day, not a holiday.
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Sweden - Birthday of
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an
official flag day.
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