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This day in history: 14 July

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230 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 14 July.
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2019: A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.

Holidays and observances

Bastille Day (France and dependencies)

Christian feast day: Blessed Angeline of Marsciano

Christian feast day: Blessed Ghébrē-Michael

Christian feast day: Camillus of Lellis (Roman Catholic Church, except in the United States)

Christian feast day: Deusdedit of Canterbury

Christian feast day: Francis Solanus

Christian feast day: Gaspar de Bono

Christian feast day: John Keble (Church of England)

Christian feast day: July 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Samson Occom (Episcopal Church (United States)

International Non-Binary People's Day

North Korean Defectors' Day (in South Korea)

Events

2019A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.

2016A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.

2015NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.

2013Dedication of the statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture of the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

2002French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at Champs-Élysées.

2001Australian criminal Bradley John Murdoch murders British tourist Peter Falconio and abducts his girlfriend in the Northern Territory.

2001Rus Flight 9633 crashes during takeoff from Chkalovsky Airport, killing all 10 people on board.

1983Mario Bros. is released in Japan, beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.

1965Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.

1960Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.

1960Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 ditches off Polillo Island in the Philippines, killing one person and injuring 44.

1958In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.

1957Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.

1951Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

1950Korean War: beginning of the Battle of Taejon.

1948Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.

1943In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.

1942In the Wardha session of Congress, the "Quit India" resolution is approved, authorising Mahatma Gandhi to campaign for India's independence from Britain.

1933In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.

1933Nazi eugenics programme begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring requiring the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.

1916World War I: Battle of Delville Wood begins as an action within the Battle of the Somme, lasting until 3 September 1916.

1915Beginning of the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and the British official Henry McMahon concerning the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.

1911Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, is greeted by president William Howard Taft after he lands his aeroplane on the South Lawn of the White House, having flown from Boston.

1902Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".

1902The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.

1900Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.

1881American outlaw Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the Maxwell House at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

1874The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.

1865The first ascent of the Matterhorn is completed by Edward Whymper and his party, four of whom die on the descent.

1853Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.

1808The Finnish War: the Battle of Lapua is fought.

1798The Sedition Act of 1798 becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.

1791Beginning of Priestley Riots (to 17 July) in Birmingham targeting Joseph Priestley as a supporter of the French Revolution.

1790Inaugural Fête de la Fédération is held to celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation.

1789Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution. Bastille Day is still celebrated annually in France.

1771Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.

1769An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá leaves its base in San Diego and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).

1596Anglo-Spanish War: English and Dutch troops sack the Spanish city of Cádiz before leaving the next day.

1456John Hunyadi and his forces defeat the Ottoman fleet on the Danube, allowing them to reinforce and supply the besieged city of Belgrade.

1430Joan of Arc, taken by the Burgundians in May, is handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.

Born on this day

2004Noah Clowney, American basketball player

2003Haley Winn, American hockey player

1997Neekolul, American internet personality

1995Harrison Butker, American football player

1995Kim In-hyeok, South Korean volleyball player (died 2022)

1994Lucas Giolito, American baseball player

1990Paulo Muacho, Portuguese politician

1988Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist

1988Jérémy Stravius, French swimmer

1987Adam Johnson, English footballer

1987Dan Reynolds, American singer-songwriter

1986Dan Smith, British singer, songwriter and record producer

1985Darrelle Revis, American football player

1985Phoebe Waller-Bridge, English actress and screenwriter

1984Dagbjört Hákonardóttir, Icelandic politician

1984Samir Handanović, Slovenian footballer

1977Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

1975Tim Hudson, American baseball player

1972Steph Bridge, British World Champion kitesurfer

1971Bubba Ray Dudley, American professional wrestler

1967Robin Ventura, American baseball player

1966Matthew Fox, American actor

1961Howard Lutnick, American businessman, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, secretary of commerce in the Trump administration

1961Jackie Earle Haley, American actor and director

1960Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter, activist and actress

1960Anna Bligh, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Queensland

1960Jane Lynch, American actress (Glee), comedian, author, and game show host

1960Kyle Gass, American musician, comedian, and actor

1952Bob Casale, American musician, member of Devo (died 2014)

1950Andy Newmark, American session and touring drummer (Carly Simon, George Harrison; John Lennon)

1950Bruce Oldfield, English fashion designer

1949Tommy Mottola, American businessman and music publisher

1948Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king (died 2021)

1947John Blackman, Australian radio and television presenter (died 2024)

1947Navin Ramgoolam, Mauritius physician and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Mauritius

1945Jim Gordon, American rock drummer and convicted murderer (died 2023)

1942Javier Solana, Spanish physicist and politician, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs

1941Andreas Khol, German-Austrian lawyer and politician

1941Maulana Karenga, American philosopher, author, and activist, created Kwanzaa

1940Susan Howatch, English author and academic

Died on this day

2025Andrea Gibson, American poet and activist (born 1975)

2025B. Saroja Devi, Indian actress (born 1938)

2025Fauja Singh, British-Indian centenarian marathon runner

2025John MacArthur, American evangelical preacher (born 1939)

2024Jacoby Jones, American football player (born 1984)

2022Ivana Trump, Czech-American socialite and model (born 1949)

2020Rosa, Spanish-born cow on French television (born 2001)

2017Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (born 1977)

2005Cicely Saunders, English hospice founder (born 1918)

2000Pepo, Chilean cartoonist; creator of Condorito (born 1911)

1998Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (born 1909)

1993Léo Ferré, Monacan singer-songwriter, pianist, and poet (born 1916)

1991Constance Stokes, Australian painter (born 1906)

1986Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer (born 1893)

1984Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter; Academy Award winner for The French Connection (born 1928)

1984Philippe Wynne, American soul singer (The Spinners) (born 1941)

1980Carlos López Moctezuma, Mexican actor (born 1909).

1974Carl Spaatz, American World War II general; commander of the Strategic Air Forces in Europe (born 1891)

1970Preston Foster, American actor (born 1900)

1968Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian author and poet (born 1892)

1967Tudor Arghezi, Romanian author and poet (born 1880)

1966Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (born 1878)

1965Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (born 1900)

1954Jacinto Benavente, Spanish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)

1939Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and illustrator (born 1860)

1937Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (born 1874)

1936Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar (born 1890)

1918Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1897)

1917Octave Lapize, French cyclist (born 1887)

1910Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (born 1818)

Quote of the day

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

Seneca

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