14 July
Notable Births
Noah Clowney
b. 2004
American basketball player (born 2004)
Haley Winn
b. 2003
American ice hockey player (born 2003)
Harrison Butker
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Kim In-hyeok
b. 1995
South Korean volleyball player (1995–2022)
Lucas Giolito
b. 1994
American baseball pitcher (born 1994)
Paulo Muacho
b. 1990
Portuguese politician (born 1990)
Conor McGregor
b. 1988
Irish mixed martial artist (born 1988)
Jérémy Stravius
b. 1988
French swimmer (born 1988)
Adam Johnson (footballer)
b. 1987
English association football player (born 1987)
Dan Reynolds
b. 1987
American singer and songwriter (born 1987)
Dan Smith (singer)
b. 1986
English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Darrelle Revis
b. 1985
American football player (born 1985)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
b. 1985
English actress, screenwriter and producer (born 1985)
Dagbjört Hákonardóttir
b. 1984
Icelandic politician (born 1984)
Samir Handanović
b. 1984
Slovenian footballer (born 1984)
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
b. 1977
Heir apparent to the Swedish throne (born 1977)
Angélique Kidjo
b. 1960
Beninese musician
Gertrude Bell
b. 1868
English writer, traveller, political officer, and archaeologist
Florence Bascom
b. 1862
American professor of geology (1862–1945)
Mordecai Manuel Noah
b. 1785
American diplomat and utopian writer (1785–1851)
Notable Deaths
B. Saroja Devi
d. 2025
Indian actress (1938–2025)
Andrea Gibson
d. 2025
American poet and activist (1975–2025)
John MacArthur (American pastor)
d. 2025
American evangelical preacher (1939–2025)
Fauja Singh
d. 2025
British-Indian centenarian marathon runner
Jacoby Jones
d. 2024
American football player (1984–2024)
Ivana Trump
d. 2022
Ex-wife of Donald Trump (1949–2022)
Maryam Mirzakhani
d. 2017
Iranian mathematician (1977–2017)
Cicely Saunders
d. 2005
English nurse, social worker, physician and writer
Pepo (cartoonist)
d. 2000
Chilean cartoonist
Léo Ferré
d. 1993
Monégasque musician and poet (1916–1993)
Constance Stokes
d. 1991
Australian painter (1906–1991)
Raymond Loewy
d. 1986
French-born American industrial designer
Ernest Tidyman
d. 1984
American author and screenwriter (1928–1984)
Philippé Wynne
d. 1984
Musical artist (1941–84)
Carlos López Moctezuma
d. 1980
Mexican actor
Carl Spaatz
d. 1974
United States Air Force general (1891–1974)
Preston Foster
d. 1970
American actor and singer (1900–1970)
Konstantin Paustovsky
d. 1968
Russian writer (1892–1968)
Tudor Arghezi
d. 1967
Romanian writer and political figure (1880–1967)
Julie Manet
d. 1966
French painter
On This Day in History
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2019
A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.
GippsAero GA8 Airvan
2016
A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.
2016 Nice truck attack
2015
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
NASA
2013
Dedication of statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Statue of Rachel Carson
2002
French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at Champs-Élysées.
Jacques Chirac
2001
Australian criminal Bradley John Murdoch murders British tourist Peter Falconio and abducted his girlfriend in the Northern Territory.
Bradley John Murdoch
2001
Rus Flight 9633 crashes during takeoff from Chkalovsky Airport, killing all 10 people on board.
Rus Flight 9633
1983
Mario Bros. is released in Japan, beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.
Mario Bros.
1965
Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
Mariner 4
1960
Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.
Jane Goodall
1960
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 ditches off Polillo Island in the Philippines, killing one person and injuring 44.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11
1958
In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.
14 July Revolution
1957
Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
Rawya Ateya
1951
Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Scuderia Ferrari
1950
Korean War: beginning of the Battle of Taejon.
Korean War
1948
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
Palmiro Togliatti
1943
In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
Diamond, Missouri
1942
In the Wardha session of Congress, the "Quit India" resolution is approved, authorising Mahatma Gandhi to campaign for India's independence from Britain.
Wardha
1933
In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.
Gleichschaltung
1933
Nazi eugenics programme begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring requiring the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.
Nazi eugenics