July 14 Events |
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| July 14th, 2007 (July 14 2007) | Event | Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. | |
| July 14th, 2002 (July 14 2002) | Event | French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations. | |
| July 14th, 1992 (July 14 1992) | Event | 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds release his Linux soon afterwards. | Linus Torvalds Quotes |
| July 14th, 1969 (July 14 1969) | Event | Football War: after Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. | |
| July 14th, 1969 (July 14 1969) | Event | The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation. | |
| July 14th, 1965 (July 14 1965) | Event | The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. | |
| July 14th, 1958 (July 14 1958) | Event | Iraqi Revolution: in Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces lead by Abdul Karim Kassem, who becomes the nation s new leader. | |
| July 14th, 1948 (July 14 1948) | Event | Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament. | |
| July 14th, 1943 (July 14 1943) | Event | In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a African American. | George Washington Quotes |
| July 14th, 1933 (July 14 1933) | Event | Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party. | |
| July 14th, 1902 (July 14 1902) | Event | The Campanile in St Mark s Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta. | |
| July 14th, 1865 (July 14 1865) | Event | First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom died on the descent. | |
| July 14th, 1798 (July 14 1798) | Event | The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government. | |
| July 14th, 1791 (July 14 1791) | Event | The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England. | Joseph Priestley Quotes |
| July 14th, 1790 (July 14 1790) | Event | French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fete de la Federation. | |
| July 14th, 1789 (July 14 1789) | Event | French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. | |
| July 14th, 1771 (July 14 1771) | Event | Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junipero Serra. | |
| July 14th, 1769 (July 14 1769) | Event | The de Portola Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California). | |
| July 14th, 1698 (July 14 1698) | Event | The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama. | |
| July 14th, 1223 (July 14 1223) | Event | Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France. | King of France Louis VII Quotes |
