1789 The Bastille prison was stormed on July 14, 1789 and fell, kickstarting the French Revolution. Just seven prisoners were ‘liberated’ when the Bastille prison in Paris was stormed — four forgers, two lunatics and one sex offender. After the storming of the Bastille, its main key was given to the Marquis de Lafayette who later gave it to George Washington. The key is now exhibited at Washington mansion at Mount Vernon.
1791 The chemist and dissenting clergyman Joseph Priestley was a supporter of the French Revolution and a rejecter of the doctrines of Atonement (Christ's death being a sacrifice) and the Trinity. On July 14, 1791 the Unitarian Minister was attending a banquet to celebrate the fall of the Bastille when his Birmingham Chapel and home were destroyed by a mob upset at his support for the French Revolution and his Unitarian theology. His papers were destroyed and his apparatus smashed.
1833 On July 14, 1833 John Keble, a parson's son, and professor of poetry at Oxford preached a sermon on "Natural Apostasy" which sparked off the "Oxford Movement", a revival of Catholic spirituality in the Church of England. For the next eight years a group of Oxford High churchmen including Keble and John Henry Newman sent a series of pamphlets to every parsonage in England advocating a higher degree of ceremonial worship nearer to that of the Roman Catholic Church.
1865 A seven-man mountaineering team by led by the English illustrator, Edward Whymper made the first ascent of the Matterhorn on July 14, 1865. Four of the party members fell to their deaths and this ascent is generally regarded as marking the end of the golden age of alpinism.
1867 The chemist Alfred Nobel of Stockholm, Sweden demonstrated dynamite for the first time, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, England on July 14, 1867. Dynamite's main explosive component is nitroglycerin and Alfred Nobel's brother perished when an early experiment to stabilize nitroglycerine by adding a chalky material called kieselguhr, went horribly wrong. In 1896, Nobel used the fortune he made from his new explosive 'dynamite'. to endow the Nobel Prizes.
1881 The outlaw William "Billy The Kid" Bonney killed his first victim at age 18. According to legend, the outlaw killed 21 people, one for each year of his life. But the New Mexico Tourism Department puts the total closer to nine. He was sentenced to death for murdering a sheriff, but escaped (killing two guards), and was finally shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881 despite being promised clemency by then Governor Lew Wallace for testifying in a murder case.
1907 English chemist and inventor William Henry Perkin is best known for developing mauve, the first synthetic dye. By age 36, Perkin was able to retire as a dyemaker and pursue his research exclusively. He developed a general synthesis of aromatic acids (the Perkin reaction) and studied magnetic rotatory power. Perkin died on July 14, 1907 of pneumonia and other complications resulting from a burst appendix.
1913 Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, was born on July 14, 1913, at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska. Ford was involved in The Boy Scouts of America, and earned that program's highest rank, Eagle Scout. He was the only American president who was an Eagle Scout. A male model during his time between leaving for World War II and graduating from Yale Law, Ford was in Look magazine and on the cover of a 1942 issue of Cosmopolitan.
1918 Quentin Roosevelt was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. He joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a pursuit pilot during World War I. Extremely popular with his fellow pilots and known for being daring, he was killed in aerial combat over France on Bastille Day (July 14), 1918.
1918 Rags was a stray mixed breed terrier who was adopted into the U.S, 1st Division on July 14, 1918, in the Montmartre section of Paris. Rags became their mascot after he saved hundreds of lives by running messages under fire. When Rags was injured he was sent to a field hospital with an order from HQ, "The dog gets attention same as soldiers." Rags remained its mascot until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1936.
1928 The world first sitcom, Sam 'n' Henry, was broadcast on WGN radio in Chicago, Illinois. It starred Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Sam Smith and Henry Johnson, two African-Americans from Birmingham who moved north to Chicago to seek their fortune. The final episode of Sam 'n' Henry aired on July 14, 1928, after which Gosden and Correll reworked the premise on a more ambitious scale to create their long-running radio show Amos 'n' Andy.
1930 The BBC screened the world's first TV play, Luigi Pirandello’s The Man With A Flower in His Mouth, on July 14, 1930. The play was broadcast live from the Baird Company's headquarters in London, There were only enough TV sets in the UK for it to be seen by about 1,000 people.
1933 The Nazis received 43.9% of the popular vote and 288 seats in the Reichstag out of a total of 647 seats in the March 1933 election. All German political parties — except the Nazi Party — were outlawed on July 14, 1933.
1958 The Kingdom of Iraq gained independence from Britain in 1932 and on July 14, 1958, the monarchy was overthrown and the Republic of Iraq was created. Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim. From 1968 to 2003, Iraq was run by the Ba'ath Party. Saddam Hussein was the President from 1979 until the disbandment of the Ba'ath Party.
1965 Since the 1960s, multiple robotic spacecraft have been sent to explore Mars. Mariner 4 sent the first photograph of Mars on July 14, 1965 —it took eight hours to arrive. They were the first ever close-up photos of another planet.
1965 Stephen Hawking first met Jane Wilde, a friend of his sister, just before his diagnosis with motor neuron disease. Their relationship developed and the couple married on July 14, 1965. Hawking's views of religion contrasted with Jane's strong Christian faith and resulted in tension. By the late 1980s, Hawking had grown close to one of his nurses, Elaine Mason. Hawking told Jane that he was leaving her for Mason and departed the family home in February 1990.
1969 By 1969 the relationship between the two neighboring countries of El Salvador and Honduras. was already acrimonious and it reached a low when El Salvador beat Honduras in an elimination football match as a preliminary to the World Cup. Tensions escalated and on July 14, 1969 the Salvadoran army launched an attack on the Honduran army. After the week-long war as many as 130,000 Salvadoran immigrants were expelled.
1983 Mario Bros is a platform game created by Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto was also one of the lead developers for the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, which featured Super Mario's first appearance. In Mario Bros, Mario is portrayed as an Italian-American plumber who, along with his brother Luigi has to defeat enemies that have been coming from the sewers by jumping on them from below and then kicking them, when they are knocked down. It was first released on July 14, 1983.
1987 Montreal was hit by a series of thunderstorms between the noon hour and 2:30 pm on July 14, 1987 Over 100 millimetres (3.9 in) of rain fell during this very short period of time, resulting in The Montreal Flood of 1987.
2000 On July 14, 2000, the French celebrated the first Bastille day of the new millennium with the world's largest ever picnic, stretching the length of the country. The picnic site ran intermittently along the 600 miles of the Méridien Vert, a line that passes through 337 villages and towns. They lined up along 400 miles of specially woven white-and-red-chequered tablecloth to share lunch with friends and neighbors.
2015 A spacecraft visited Pluto and its moons for the first time on July 14, 2015. The New Horizons probe came within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of Pluto's surface, allowing it to gather unprecedented data. The images and measurements obtained by New Horizons revealed a diverse and geologically active world with mountains, plains, valleys, and intriguing surface patterns.
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| Storming of The Bastile, Jean-Pierre Houël |
1791 The chemist and dissenting clergyman Joseph Priestley was a supporter of the French Revolution and a rejecter of the doctrines of Atonement (Christ's death being a sacrifice) and the Trinity. On July 14, 1791 the Unitarian Minister was attending a banquet to celebrate the fall of the Bastille when his Birmingham Chapel and home were destroyed by a mob upset at his support for the French Revolution and his Unitarian theology. His papers were destroyed and his apparatus smashed.
1833 On July 14, 1833 John Keble, a parson's son, and professor of poetry at Oxford preached a sermon on "Natural Apostasy" which sparked off the "Oxford Movement", a revival of Catholic spirituality in the Church of England. For the next eight years a group of Oxford High churchmen including Keble and John Henry Newman sent a series of pamphlets to every parsonage in England advocating a higher degree of ceremonial worship nearer to that of the Roman Catholic Church.
1865 A seven-man mountaineering team by led by the English illustrator, Edward Whymper made the first ascent of the Matterhorn on July 14, 1865. Four of the party members fell to their deaths and this ascent is generally regarded as marking the end of the golden age of alpinism.
1867 The chemist Alfred Nobel of Stockholm, Sweden demonstrated dynamite for the first time, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, England on July 14, 1867. Dynamite's main explosive component is nitroglycerin and Alfred Nobel's brother perished when an early experiment to stabilize nitroglycerine by adding a chalky material called kieselguhr, went horribly wrong. In 1896, Nobel used the fortune he made from his new explosive 'dynamite'. to endow the Nobel Prizes.
1881 The outlaw William "Billy The Kid" Bonney killed his first victim at age 18. According to legend, the outlaw killed 21 people, one for each year of his life. But the New Mexico Tourism Department puts the total closer to nine. He was sentenced to death for murdering a sheriff, but escaped (killing two guards), and was finally shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881 despite being promised clemency by then Governor Lew Wallace for testifying in a murder case.
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| Portrait of American gunman Billy the Kid (1859–1881). |
1907 English chemist and inventor William Henry Perkin is best known for developing mauve, the first synthetic dye. By age 36, Perkin was able to retire as a dyemaker and pursue his research exclusively. He developed a general synthesis of aromatic acids (the Perkin reaction) and studied magnetic rotatory power. Perkin died on July 14, 1907 of pneumonia and other complications resulting from a burst appendix.
1913 Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, was born on July 14, 1913, at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska. Ford was involved in The Boy Scouts of America, and earned that program's highest rank, Eagle Scout. He was the only American president who was an Eagle Scout. A male model during his time between leaving for World War II and graduating from Yale Law, Ford was in Look magazine and on the cover of a 1942 issue of Cosmopolitan.
1918 Quentin Roosevelt was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. He joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a pursuit pilot during World War I. Extremely popular with his fellow pilots and known for being daring, he was killed in aerial combat over France on Bastille Day (July 14), 1918.
1918 Rags was a stray mixed breed terrier who was adopted into the U.S, 1st Division on July 14, 1918, in the Montmartre section of Paris. Rags became their mascot after he saved hundreds of lives by running messages under fire. When Rags was injured he was sent to a field hospital with an order from HQ, "The dog gets attention same as soldiers." Rags remained its mascot until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1936.
1928 The world first sitcom, Sam 'n' Henry, was broadcast on WGN radio in Chicago, Illinois. It starred Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Sam Smith and Henry Johnson, two African-Americans from Birmingham who moved north to Chicago to seek their fortune. The final episode of Sam 'n' Henry aired on July 14, 1928, after which Gosden and Correll reworked the premise on a more ambitious scale to create their long-running radio show Amos 'n' Andy.
1930 The BBC screened the world's first TV play, Luigi Pirandello’s The Man With A Flower in His Mouth, on July 14, 1930. The play was broadcast live from the Baird Company's headquarters in London, There were only enough TV sets in the UK for it to be seen by about 1,000 people.
1933 The Nazis received 43.9% of the popular vote and 288 seats in the Reichstag out of a total of 647 seats in the March 1933 election. All German political parties — except the Nazi Party — were outlawed on July 14, 1933.
1958 The Kingdom of Iraq gained independence from Britain in 1932 and on July 14, 1958, the monarchy was overthrown and the Republic of Iraq was created. Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim. From 1968 to 2003, Iraq was run by the Ba'ath Party. Saddam Hussein was the President from 1979 until the disbandment of the Ba'ath Party.
1965 Since the 1960s, multiple robotic spacecraft have been sent to explore Mars. Mariner 4 sent the first photograph of Mars on July 14, 1965 —it took eight hours to arrive. They were the first ever close-up photos of another planet.
1965 Stephen Hawking first met Jane Wilde, a friend of his sister, just before his diagnosis with motor neuron disease. Their relationship developed and the couple married on July 14, 1965. Hawking's views of religion contrasted with Jane's strong Christian faith and resulted in tension. By the late 1980s, Hawking had grown close to one of his nurses, Elaine Mason. Hawking told Jane that he was leaving her for Mason and departed the family home in February 1990.
1969 By 1969 the relationship between the two neighboring countries of El Salvador and Honduras. was already acrimonious and it reached a low when El Salvador beat Honduras in an elimination football match as a preliminary to the World Cup. Tensions escalated and on July 14, 1969 the Salvadoran army launched an attack on the Honduran army. After the week-long war as many as 130,000 Salvadoran immigrants were expelled.
1983 Mario Bros is a platform game created by Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto was also one of the lead developers for the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, which featured Super Mario's first appearance. In Mario Bros, Mario is portrayed as an Italian-American plumber who, along with his brother Luigi has to defeat enemies that have been coming from the sewers by jumping on them from below and then kicking them, when they are knocked down. It was first released on July 14, 1983.
1987 Montreal was hit by a series of thunderstorms between the noon hour and 2:30 pm on July 14, 1987 Over 100 millimetres (3.9 in) of rain fell during this very short period of time, resulting in The Montreal Flood of 1987.
2000 On July 14, 2000, the French celebrated the first Bastille day of the new millennium with the world's largest ever picnic, stretching the length of the country. The picnic site ran intermittently along the 600 miles of the Méridien Vert, a line that passes through 337 villages and towns. They lined up along 400 miles of specially woven white-and-red-chequered tablecloth to share lunch with friends and neighbors.
2015 A spacecraft visited Pluto and its moons for the first time on July 14, 2015. The New Horizons probe came within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of Pluto's surface, allowing it to gather unprecedented data. The images and measurements obtained by New Horizons revealed a diverse and geologically active world with mountains, plains, valleys, and intriguing surface patterns.
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| Pluto in near-true color, imaged by New Horizons |
2016 Prince Harry took a HIV test live on July 14, 2016 to show how easy it is. It was hailed as a "groundbreaking moment in the fight against HIV." Aids awareness group THT subsequently reported a 5 fold increase in the number of orders of HIV self-tests following the prince's broadcast.
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