About July 14
July 14, 2024 is the 196th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 170 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 199 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 14
- 1223 –Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
- 1769 –An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
- 1789 –Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
- 1789 –French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
- 1790 –French Revolution: citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
- 1791 –The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
- 1798 –The Sedition Act 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.
- 1877 –The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.
- 1881 –Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
- 1900 –Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.
- 1902 –The Campanile in St. Mark’s Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
- 1950 –Korean War: North Korean troops initiate the Battle of Taejon.
- 1957 –Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
- 1958 –Iraqi Revolution: in Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abdul Karim Kassem, who becomes the nation’s new leader.
- 1960 –Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
- 1965 –The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
- 1969 –The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
- 1987 –Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
- 2000 –A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
- 2003 –In an effort to discredit U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Wilson’s wife Valerie Plame is a CIA “operative”.
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