Notable Historical Events on July 14th
July 14th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1223 |
Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II |
1420 |
Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia |
1535 |
Emperor Charles V conquers Tunis |
1581 |
English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested |
1682 |
Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London |
1698 |
The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama. |
1714 |
Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet |
1769 |
The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California). |
1771 |
Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California |
1789 |
Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille |
1791 |
The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England. |
1798 |
1st direct US federal tax on states-on dwellings, land & slaves |
1798 |
US Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against government |
1822 |
Slave revolt in South Carolina under Denmark Vesey/Peter Poyas |
1823 |
Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives |
1832 |
Opium exempted from federal tariff duty |
1845 |
1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC |
1845 |
Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many |
1850 |
1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration |
1853 |
1st US World's fair opens at New York's Crystal Palace |
1853 |
Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan |
1853 |
Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY) |
1853 |
New Zealand holds its first general election |
1861 |
Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA with 40,000 troops |
1861 |
Naval Engagement at Wilmington NC - USS Daylight establishes blockade |
1863 |
Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek) |
1863 |
Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality |
1864 |
Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana |
1865 |
Whymper, Hudson, Croz, Douglas & Hadow 1st to climb Matterhorn |
1868 |
Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure |
1870 |
The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year |
1877 |
General strike brings US railroad to a stand still |
1891 |
John T Smith patents corkboard |
1902 |
The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta. |
1909 |
Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns |
1911 |
46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines |
1912 |
Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8) |
1914 |
1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Robert Goddard) |
1914 |
NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep |
1916 |
33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record) |
1916 |
St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston |
1918 |
Dutch government reclaims South seas |
1921 |
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's paymaster |
1927 |
1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii |
1932 |
Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders |
1933 |
Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness |
1933 |
NSDAP (Nazis) becomes only political party in Germany |
1933 |
Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 & 9-44, at Leyton |
1934 |
116°F (47°C), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994) |
1934 |
NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time |
1934 |
Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0 |
1934 |
Ruth hits 700th career home run |
1936 |
1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government |
1936 |
116°F (47°C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record) |
1938 |
Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifesto |
1940 |
Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps |
1940 |
Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR |
1941 |
6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp |
1941 |
Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria) |
1941 |
Jam rationed in Holland |
1942 |
1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork |
1942 |
Riots against Jews in Amsterdam |
1944 |
Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested |
1944 |
US assault on Coutances Cotentin |
1945 |
Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan |
1946 |
Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published |
1946 |
Mass murder of Jews in Kielce, Poland |
1946 |
Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs |
1948 |
Israel bombs Cairo |
1948 |
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament. |
1949 |
USSR explodes its 1st atom bomb |
1950 |
RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea |
1951 |
"Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances |
1951 |
"Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 perfs |
1951 |
1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race) |
1951 |
Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races |
1951 |
George Washington Carver monument unveiled |
1952 |
SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward) |
1953 |
1st US National monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver |
1953 |
20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati |
1953 |
Communist offensive in Korea |
1954 |
117°F (47°C), East St Louis, Illinois (state record) |
1954 |
118°F (48°C), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record) |
1955 |
2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascot racecourse, England |
1956 |
Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 |
1957 |
Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270 |
1958 |
General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq overthrowing the monarchy |
1958 |
Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th & last encyclical Meminisse juvat |
1959 |
USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Mass |
1960 |
Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
1960 |
Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300 |
1961 |
Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500 |
1961 |
Finland's Miettunen government forms |
1961 |
Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate |
1962 |
Borehole for Mont Blanc tunnel finished |
1962 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open |
1964 |
Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France |
1964 |
Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter |
1965 |
Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4) |
1965 |
Israeli/Jordanian border fights |
1965 |
US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km) |
1966 |
Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory |
1967 |
Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal |
1967 |
Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing |
1967 |
The Who begin a US tour opening for Herman's Hermits |
1968 |
Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick |
1968 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic |
1968 |
Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1 |
1968 |
WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
"Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins |
1969 |
Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead) |
1969 |
WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast |
1969 |
The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation. |
1969 |
A 67-year-old Catholic civilian dies after being attacked by RUC officers in Dungiven; many consider this the first death of 'the Troubles' |
1969 |
Francis McCloskey, a Catholic civilian, dies one day after being hit on the head with a baton by an officer of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) during street disturbances in Dungiven, County Derry |
1970 |
41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin |
1970 |
All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox) |
1972 |
Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic Natl Committee |
1972 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1972 |
Plate ump & catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump & Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, KC Royals win 1-0 |
1973 |
102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon |
1973 |
Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers |
1974 |
Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day |
1974 |
Bundy victims Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA |
1974 |
Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
1975 |
EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced |
1976 |
Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC |
1976 |
USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands |
1977 |
North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3 |
1977 |
US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
1978 |
Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation |
1978 |
Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls |
1978 |
Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode" - blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear Test |
1981 |
Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London |
1983 |
Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages |
1984 |
STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads |
1984 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985 |
40th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker |
1985 |
Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb |
1985 |
Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24 |
1986 |
10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid |
1986 |
2nd government of Lubbers sworn in |
1986 |
41st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes |
1986 |
Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide |
1986 |
NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission |
1986 |
Paul McCartney releases "Press" |
1986 |
Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage |
1986 |
Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges |
1987 |
58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad |
1987 |
All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos) |
1987 |
Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million |
1987 |
Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony |
1987 |
Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson |
1987 |
Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
1987 |
Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law |
1988 |
200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorporation of Nagorno-Karabak |
1988 |
Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place |
1988 |
WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive |
1989 |
16th James Bond movies "Licence to Kill" premieres |
1990 |
"Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC) |
1990 |
Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1991 |
46th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon |
1991 |
Failed military coup in Mali |
1992 |
63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD |
1992 |
Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery |
1992 |
All star MVP: Ken Griffey Jr (Seattle Mariners) |
1992 |
386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds release his Linux soon afterwards. |
1993 |
Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow & NY |
1994 |
Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed |
1995 |
LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0 |
1995 |
Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Marlins |
1996 |
"How To Succeed in Business..." closes at R Rodgers NYC after 548 perf |
1996 |
"Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 32 performances |
1996 |
14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: raymond floyd |
1996 |
Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic |
1996 |
NY Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves |
1996 |
NY Yanks sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time |
1997 |
Bomb in Algiers kills 21 & wounds 40 |
1998 |
Violence erupts in Richmond, South Africa, reflecting underlying political tensions between supporters of the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party |
2002 |
French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations. |
2007 |
Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. |
2009 |
80th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Busch Stadium, St Louis |
2009 |
Singapore experiences a seasonally adjusted and annualised growth of 20.4% in the second quarter as a result of increased pharmaceuticals production and construction, bringing the country out of the recession |
2010 |
18th ESPY Awards: Drew Brees, Lindsey Vonn win |
2012 |
Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan |
2012 |
Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000 |
2014 |
The Church of England votes in favor of allowing women to become bishops |
2014 |
The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak passes 500 |
2016 |
Obama Sends 47 US Troops to South Sudan Amid Heavy Fighting |
2016 |
Nintendo shares jump 9.5 percent on Pokemon GO phenomenon |
2016 |
US sends 47 troops to South Sudan to protect Americans |
2016 |
David Cameron steps down as Britain's Prime Minister |
2016 |
Theresa May becomes UK prime minister |
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