What happened this day in history July 14

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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