About July 14
July 14, 2023 is the 195th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 170 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 211 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).
- 1771 –Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1916 –Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme, which was to last until 3 September 1916.
- 1933 –Gleichschaltung: in Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
- 1943 –In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
- 1948 –Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
- 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 –Football War: after Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
- 1969 –The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
- 1992 –386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
- 2002 –French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
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