Historical Events on July 14
- ️Sat Jul 14 2001
- 982 King Otto II and his Frankish army defeated in pitched battle with Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy
- 1223 Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II
- 1420 Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia
- 1581 English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
- 1682 Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
- 1698 The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama
- 1714 Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
- 1769 The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California)
- 1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
Event of Interest
1790 The Fête de la Fédération, attended by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, is held across France on the first anniversary of the French Revolution
Event of Interest
1791 The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England
- 1795 The French National Convention decrees "La Marseillaise" by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle France's national anthem
- 1798 1st direct US federal tax on states-on dwellings, land and slaves
- 1798 US Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against government
- 1822 Date planned for the slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina by Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas (plot already uncovered in June)
- 1823 Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
- 1832 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
- 1845 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
- 1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie
- 1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
Event of Interest
1853 US President Franklin Pierce opens World Fair - Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York
- 1853 New Zealand holds its first general election
- 1861 General McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia with 40,000 troops
- 1861 Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade
- 1863 Battle of Falling Waters, Maryland (Beaver Creek)
- 1863 Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
- 1864 Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana
- 1865 English mountaineer Edward Whymper leads first expedition to climb the Matterhorn (four die on the descent)
- 1865 The Chickasaw Nation is the last of the Five Tribes to surrender to the Union following the Confederate defeat
- 1868 Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure
Event of Interest
1870 The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year
- 1877 General strike brings US railroad to a stand still
- 1891 John T Smith patents corkboard
- 1902 The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta
- 1909 Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
- 1909 Theobold von Bethmann Hollweg nominated Germany Chancellor
- 1911 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
- 1912 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
Historic Invention
1914 Robert Goddard is granted the first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design
- 1914 NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
- 1916 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record)
- 1916 St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston
- 1918 Dutch government reclaims South seas
- 1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted of killing their shoe company's paymaster and sentenced to death, in Dedham Massachusetts
- 1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
- 1932 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
- 1933 Germany begins mandatory sterilization of people with hereditary illnesses
- 1933 All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany
- 1933 Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 & 9-44, at Leyton
- 1934 116°F (47°C), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
- 1934 NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
- 1934 Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
- 1936 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government
- 1936 116°F (47°C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
- 1940 Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
- 1940 Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
- 1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
- 1941 Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria)
- 1941 Jam rationed in Holland
- 1942 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
- 1942 Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
- 1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
- 1944 US assault on Coutances Cotentin
- 1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
Historic Publication
1946 Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published
- 1946 Mass murder of Jews in Kielce, Poland
Event of Interest
1946 Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs
- 1948 Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament in an assassination attempt
- 1949 Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobný and Vladimir Černík defect while playing in a tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland; Drobny accepts Egyptian citizenship
- 1950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
- 1951 "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances
- 1951 "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 performances
- 1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
- 1951 In his last race, 1948 Triple Crown champion Citation wins the Hollywood Gold Cup by 4 lengths, to become American racing's first millionaire horse.
- 1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
- 1953 First US national monument dedicated to a black American, to preserve the boyhood home of agricultural scientist and inventor George Washington Carver in Newton County, Missouri
- 1953 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
- 1954 117°F (47°C), East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
- 1954 118°F (48°C), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record)
- 1955 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascot racecourse, England
- 1956 Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
- 1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
- 1958 General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq overthrowing the monarchy
- 1959 USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Mass
- 1960 Fire rages through a Guatemala City insane asylum killing 225 and severely injuring 300
- 1961 Finland's Miettunen government forms
- 1962 Borehole for Mont Blanc tunnel finished
- 1962 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- 1963 50th Tour de France: French cyclist Jacques Anquetil wins his 3rd consecutive general classification event; first rider to win Tour 4 times
- 1964 Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter
- 1964 51st Tour de France: Jacques Anquetil of France wins 4th consecutive Tour and is first to claim 5 titles
- 1965 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
- 1965 Israeli/Jordanian border fights
- 1965 US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
- 1965 52nd Tour de France: In his first year as a professional, Italian Felice Gimondi, a replacement on the Salvarani team, captures overall title ahead of Raymond Poulidor
- 1966 Richard Speck rapes and kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
- 1966 53rd Tour de France won by Lucien Aimar of France
- 1967 Houston Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR, off SF Giant Juan Marichal
- 1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
- 1967 The Who begin a US tour opening for Herman's Hermits
Event of Interest
1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
Film Release
1969 "Easy Rider", directed by Dennis Hopper, starring himself, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, is released
- 1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
- 1969 WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
- 1969 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
- 1969 A 67-year-old Catholic civilian dies after being attacked by RUC officers in Dungiven; many consider this the first death of 'the Troubles'
Event of Interest
1970 41st MLB All Star Game, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, OH: NL beats AL, 5-4; MVP: Carl Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox, LF
- 1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
- 1972 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
- 1972 Plate umpire and catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is umpire & Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, KC Royals win 1-0
- 1973 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon GC: American Tom Weiskopf wins wire-to-wire by 3 strokes from Johnny Miller and Neil Coles
Event of Interest
1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers
- 1974 Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by umpire from 2 games in 1 day
- 1974 Bundy victims Janice Ott and Denise Naslund disappear, Lake Sammamish, Washington
- 1975 EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
Presidential Convention
1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic presidential nomination in NYC
- 1976 USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
- 1977 North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
- 1977 US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
- 1978 Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
- 1978 Umpire Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
- 1978 Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode" - blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
- 1979 USSR performs nuclear Test
- 1981 Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London
- 1983 US politician Crane (Rep-R-Il) and Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
- 1983 Mario Bros. is first released by Nintendo in Japan as an arcade game about an Italian-American plumber
- 1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
- 1984 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1985 US Open Women's Golf, Baltusrol GC: Kathy Baker (later Guadagnino) wins her first LPGA Tour event and only major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Judy Clark (later Dickinson)
- 1985 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
- 1985 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
- 1986 10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
- 1986 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in
- 1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
- 1987 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
- 1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
- 1989 Jessye Norman sings French national anthem, La Marseillaise at the Place de la Concorde, Paris, to celebrate 200th anniversary of the French Revolution
- 1990 "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
- 1990 Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
- 1991 US Open Women's Golf, Colonial CC: Meg Mallon shoots final round 67 (−4) to finish 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Pat Bradley
- 1991 Failed military coup in Mali
- 1992 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD
- 1992 Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery
- 1992 All star MVP: Ken Griffey Jr. (Seattle Mariners)
Event of Interest
1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz, starting the open source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds release "Linux" soon afterwards
- 1993 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY
- 1994 Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
- 1995 LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
- 1996 "How To Succeed in Business..." closes at R Rodgers NYC after 548 performances
- 1996 "Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 32 performances
Golf Tournament
1996 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Raymond Floyd wins first of 2 event titles by 2 strokes from Hale Irwin
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- 1996 New York Yankees closer John Wetteland sets MLB record 24 consecutive saves
- 1996 NY Yanks sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time
- 1997 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 & wounds 40
- 1998 Violence erupts in Richmond, South Africa, reflecting underlying political tensions between supporters of the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party
Assassination Attempt
2002 French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations
- 2002 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Australian Stewart Ginn wins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from American trio Hubert Green, Mike McCullough & Jim Thorpe
- 2005 38th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
- 2007 Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
- 2012 Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
- 2012 Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000
- 2013 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Omaha CC: Kenny Perry wins by 5 strokes ahead of runner-up Fred Funk
- 2014 The Church of England votes in favor of allowing women to become bishops
- 2014 The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak passes 500
- 2014 The Egyptian government propose a cease fire in the Israel–Gaza conflict
- 2014 After 7 days, Israel has struck Gaza 1320 times, while Gaza has fired 940 rockets at Israel
Event of Interest
2015 Harper Lee's 2nd novel "Go Set A Watchman", an early 1957 version of "To Kill A Mocking Bird" goes on sale in 70 countries
- 2015 Scientists from the Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle called the pentaquark
- 2015 Arms deal agreed between 6 world powers and Iran limiting Iranian nuclear arms but ending sanctions
- 2015 86th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-3 at Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati
Event of Interest
2018 More than 300 people now reported killed in protests against government of President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua