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 196th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 170 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 1, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,720,915,200 seconds 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 ‘hectaenneacontahexagon’ 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 199 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 4,223 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 14 Historical Events
1223 –
Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
1881 –
Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
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.
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.
1960 –
Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
1965 –
The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
1987 –
Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
1992 –
386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
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”.
Who were born on July 14?
1911 –
Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and writer (d. 2000)
1926 –
Harry Dean Stanton, American actor
1932 –
Roosevelt Grier, American football player and actor
1937 –
Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
1939 –
Karel Gott, Czech Schlager singer
1940 –
Susan Howatch, English novelist
1947 –
Navin Ramgoolam, Mauritius politician, 3rd and 6th Prime Minister of Mauritius
1966 –
Owen Coyle, Scottish-born Irish football player and manager
1967 –
Patrick J. Kennedy, American politician
1976 –
Geraint Jones, England cricketer
Who died on July 14?
1223 –
King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
1723 –
Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
1742 –
Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1774 –
James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
1827 –
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1918 –
Quentin Roosevelt, American aviator, son of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1897)
1954 –
Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1968 –
Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1990 –
Walter Sedlmayr, German actor (b. 1926)
2005 –
Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (b. 1924)
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