What are the important events that happened on July 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 14 is the 195^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 170 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 1, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,207,520 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneacontapentagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac 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 218 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,588 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 14 Historical Events

• 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).
• 1790 –
  French Revolution: citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
• 1791 –
  The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
• 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.
• 1943 –
  In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
• 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.
• 1969 –
  Football War: after Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
• 2000 –
  A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.

Who were born on July 14?

• 1608 –
  George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
• 1872 –
  Albert Marque, French sculptor and doll maker (d. 1939)
• 1911 –
  Terry-Thomas, British actor (d. 1990)
• 1928 –
  Nancy Olson, American actress
• 1939 –
  Sid Haig, American actor
• 1941 –
  Maulana Karenga, American writer and political activist, the creator of Kwanzaa
• 1946 –
  John Wood, Australian actor
• 1946 –
  Vincent Pastore, American actor
• 1979 –
  Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
• 1987 –
  Adam Johnson, English footballer

Who died on July 14?

• 1614 –
  Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
• 1766 –
  František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
• 1789 –
  Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (b. 1721)
• 1904 –
  Paul Kruger, South African Boer resistance leader, 5th President of the South African Republic (b. 1824)
• 1954 –
  Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1970 –
  Preston Foster, American stage and film actor (b. 1900)
• 1975 –
  Madan Mohan, Indian film music director (b. 1924)
• 1984 –
  Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
• 2002 –
  Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician, 41st, 45th and 49th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
• 2003 –
  François-Albert Angers, French-Canadian economist (b. 1909)