July 14

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 14. From 1900 until now. July 14 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Conor McGregor (1988), Ingmar Bergman (1918) and Dorothée (TV host) (1953). Several movies were released around July 14 over the years, such as Spirited Away in 2001 directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise and Devil's Island in 1926 directed by Frank O'Connor.
But much more happened on July 14 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

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

Events

2019 A GippsAero GA8 Airvan sky diving operation plane crashes on an island outside Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine people onboard. (The Guardian)
2018 Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present): Iran's Revolutionary Guards kill three would-be saboteurs and wound another in Kermanshah, near the Iraq border, before seizing their equipment. A volunteer on Iran's side is also killed. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
2017 2017 Temple Mount shooting: Two Druze Israeli police officers are killed in an attack at Temple Mount in Jerusalem. (BBC)
2016 War in Somalia: A suspected militant of Al-Shabaab shoots and kills four Kenyan police officers at a police station in Kapenguria, Kenya, where he was being held. The militant was later killed following a shootout with police. (Reuters)
2015 At least 27 people are killed in a stampede at the Godavari Maha Pushkaram Hindu festival in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. (NY Times)
2014 Korean maritime border incidents:: South Korea claims that North Korea has fired dozens of artillery shells into the sea near the disputed border. (AP via Fox News)
2013 Syrian civil war:: Syria's opposition claims that 200 civilians are trapped in a mosque in a Damascus suburb while fighting rages outside. (CTV)
2012 Arab Spring:
2011 2011 Syrian uprising: Several deaths are reported as a security crackdown continues against anti-government protests in Syria. (Al Jazeera)
2010 The corpse of senior Rwandan opposition politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, who was recently reported missing, is found near his car with the head almost entirely severed off. (BBC)
2009 Malaysian opposition party PAS wins the Manek Urai by-election against government-led Barisan Nasional. (''The Straits Times'')
2008 Standard & Poor's 500 stock market index has its worst single day fall since its creation in 1989.
2007 Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül asked the US for an explanation of alleged delivery of weapons to the PKK terrorist group. Gül said that ties with Turkey-US would collapse if arms to PKK claims confirmed. (Jerusalem Post) (Today Zeman) (PressTV)
2006 Talks begin in Juba, Sudan between delegations from the Lord's Resistance Army and the Ugandan Government with a view to ending the conflict centred in Acholiland. The leader of the Ugandan delegation, Internal Affairs Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda had stated that obtaining a quick ceasefire is his priority. (allAfrica.com)
2005 U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist announces he will not retire from the court as long as his health permits him to remain. In October of 2004 Rehnquist, 80, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and underwent a tracheotomy. Yahoo News (Link dead as of 00:39, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
2004 Stephen Hawking changes his position on black holes and Hawking radiation, stating that it is possible for information to escape, thereby reinforcing a central tenet of quantum physics. (New Scientist)
2003 Washington Post columnist Robert Novak publishes the name of Valerie Plame, blowing her cover as a US Central Intelligence Agency operative. The Central Intelligence Agency leak scandal begins.
2002 French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
2000 A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
1997 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 andwounds 40
1996 How To Succeed in Business... closes at R Rodgers NYC after 548 performances
1995 LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
1994 Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
1993 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and New York
1992 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, South Dakota
1991 Failed military coup in Mali
1989 16th James Bond movies License to Kill premieres
1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
1987 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland - Alameda Stadium
1986 10 killed and 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
1985 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
1983 Crane (Rep-R-Il) and Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
1981 US Senate confirms Donna Pope as US Mint director.
1978 Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
1977 North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic Presidential Nomination in New York City
1975 EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
1974 Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
1973 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
1971 Libya severs its diplomatic ties with Morocco.
1970 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1969 Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
1967 Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal
1966 Richard Speck rapes and kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
1965 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
1964 Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
1963 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
1962 Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
1960 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach - Quincy, Massachusetts
1958 Colonel Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
1957 Soviet steamer Eshghbad sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1956 Boston Red Sox' pitcher Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0.
1954 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record).
1953 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1951 Make a Wish closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 performances
1950 RE Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea.
1949 USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb
1948 Israel bombs Cairo
1946 Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1943 In Joplin, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
1942 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1940 Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
1938 Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish / African manifest
1934 New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1933 Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
1932 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1918 Dutch government reclaims South seas
1916 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record)
1914 The Government of Ireland Amending Bill is passed by the House of Lords.
1912 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
1902 The Campanile in St. Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
1900 Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.
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