July 14

is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. The phrase "Quatorze Juillet" (Fourteenth of July in French) has great significance in France as a reference to the celebration of the storming of the Bastille in 1789 during the French Revolution.

Events

1223 - In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
1789 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
1791 - The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
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.
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.
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.
1902 - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
1933 - Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
1940 - World War II: Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the 7th Army Corps consisting of British, Canadian and New Zealand troops.
1943 - In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a black American.
1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
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.
1958 - Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation's new leader.
1965 - Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
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.
1967 - Eddie Mathews becomes the seventh member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.
1981 - MCLN bombs a popular cinema in Bangui, Central African Republic. Afterwards a declaration is issued, demanding withdrawal of French troops from the country.
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.
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.
1989 - F-16 first kill by an Israeli Air Force pilot shooting down a Syrian MIG-21.
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.
1995 - The MP3 format was named.
2000 - George Speight, the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with treason.
2002 - During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.
2006 - The verdict in the Italian Football Match Fixing Scandal was delivered- Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina were all relegated. AC Milan were spared relegation.
2006 – Hezbollah declares all-out war on Israel.

Births

1454 - Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d. 1494)
1602 - Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661)
1608 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
1671 - Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
1676 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
1696 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
1721 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
1801 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
1816 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
1829 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)
1857 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928)
1859 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
1860 - Owen Wister, American author (d. 1938)
1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
1865 - Arthur Capper, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1951)
1868 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)
1874 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944)
1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
1891 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d. 1977)
1893 - Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
1896 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
1898 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, 44th & 49th Governor of Kentucky, U.S. Senator from Kentucky and 2nd Baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1901 - Gerald Finzi, British composer (d. 1956)
1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish author (d. 1991)
1906 - Tom Carvel, Greek-born businessman and inventor (d. 1990)
1910 - William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
1911 - Terry-Thomas, British actor (d. 1990)
1912 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
1912 - Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967)
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
1919 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)
1921 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1923 - Dale Robertson, American actor
1924 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1926 - Harry Dean Stanton, American actor
1927 - John Chancellor, American television commentator (d. 1996)
1928 - Nancy Olson, American actress
1930 - Polly Bergen, American actress, singer, and entrepreneur
1932 - Roosevelt Grier, American football player, actor, and minister
1937 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
1938 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (d. 1994)
1939 - Karel Gott, Czech singer
1939 - George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
1941 - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
1941 - Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
1942 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
1946 - John Wood, Australian actor
1947 - Claudia Kennedy, retired U.S. Army lieutenant general
1950 - Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999)
1951 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
1956 - Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor
1961 - Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
1965 - Igor Khoroshev, Russian keyboard player (Yes)
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
1967 - Robin Ventura, baseball player
1971 - Bubba Ray Dudley, American professional wrestler
1971 - Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator
1975 - Taboo, American rapper
1975 - Tim Hudson, baseball player
1976 - Geraint Jones, English cricketer
1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
1979 - Bernie Castro, Baseball player
1988 - James Vaughan, English footballer
1989 - Sean Flynn-Amir, American actor

Deaths

664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1223 - King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
1270 - Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
1274 - Saint Bonaventure (b. 1221)
1575 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
1671 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
1723 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1766 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
1774 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
1780 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
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)
1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1817 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
1850 - August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1860)
1887 - Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer (b. 1812)
1904 - Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (b. 1824)
1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)

1954 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1965 - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Presidential candidate (b. 1900)
1968 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1984 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
1984 - Philippe Wynne, American musician (b. 1941)
1994 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1940)
1998 - Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1909)
1999 - Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth)
2000 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2003 - Tex Schramm, American football general manager (b. 1920)
2003 - Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novellist

Holidays and observances

France and all French dependencies - Bastille Day.
Kiribati - Independence Day, 3rd day, not a holiday.
Sweden - Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag day.

External links

BBC: On This Day

July 13 - July 15 - June 14 - August 14 -- listing of all days

Gourt Home::Gourt :: July 14

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

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