About July 14
July 14, 2021 is the 195th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 170 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 202 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 –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.
- 1853 –Opening of the first major US world’s fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
- 1865 –First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
- 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.
- 1911 –Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from President Taft for this feat.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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