Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 14
This is a list of selected July 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Emperor Xuanzong of Tang -
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The Bastille -
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Picture of Mars taken from Mariner 4 -
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Jefferson opposed the Sedition Act -
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Jane Goodall -
Valerie Plame -
Attack on Joseph Priestley's home -
Gaspar de Portolá -
Matterhorn
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 756 – Emperor Xuanzong fled the Tang capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advanced toward the city during the An Lushan Rebellion. | unreferenced section |
| 1223 – Louis VIII became King of France to begin a three-year reign. | refimprove section |
| 1769 – Spanish soldier Gaspar de Portolá led the first European land expedition to present-day California. | Portolá: refimprove; Expedition: refimprove section |
| 1865 – A seven-man team made the first ascent of the Matterhorn, marking the end of the golden age of alpinism. | lots of references need page numbers (10) |
| 1881 – American frontier outlaw and gunman Billy the Kid was killed by sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. | appears on September 23 |
| 1933 – With the enactment of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, the Nazi Party began its eugenics program. | refimprove |
| 1957 – Rawya Ateya took her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt to become the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world. | many {{cn}} tags (9) |
| 1958 – Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim. | lead too short |
| 1960 – English primatologist Jane Goodall arrived in Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, Tanganyika, to begin her groundbreaking study of the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| 1965 – The NASA spacecraft Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet. | refimprove section |
| 1969 – Political conflicts between El Salvador and Honduras erupted into the four-day Football War, so-named because it coincided with the inflamed rioting during the second CONCACAF qualifying round for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. | refimprove |
| 1995 – The MPEG-2 Audio Layer III audio coding format was given the filename extension by which it became known: MP3. | refimprove section |
| 2002 – The orphaned killer whale named Springer was released after a month of captivity to become the only cetacean in history to be successfully re-integrated into a wild pod after human intervention. | unreferenced section |
| 2015 – The New Horizons probe became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1791 – The Priestley Riots (depicted), targeting religious dissenters such as Joseph Priestley, began in Birmingham, England.
- 1798 – The Sedition Act became law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
- 1950 – In an early battle of the Korean War, North Korean troops began attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in Taejon, South Korea.
- 2016 – A man deliberately drove a truck into crowds in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people.
- Born/died: John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford |d|1526| James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley |d|1774| Arthur de Gobineau |b|1816| Edward White Benson |b|1829| Kate M. Gordon |b|1861| Juliette Wytsman |b|1866| Roy Inwood |b|1890| William Hanna |b|1910| Alphonse Mucha |d|1939| Herbert Maryon |d|1965| Harry Atwood |d|1967| César Tovar |d|1994
July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789); Festino di Santa Rosalia begins in Palermo, Italy
- 1789 – The fortress of the Bastille in Paris was stormed by a crowd in the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
- 1874 – A fire destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people in Chicago, leading to reforms in the city's fire-prevention and firefighting efforts.
- 1902 – St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapsed (ruins pictured), demolishing the Loggetta del Sansovino and killing only the custodian's cat.
- 1987 – More than 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain fell in a two-and-a-half-hour period in Montreal, causing severe flooding and more than C$220 million in damage.
- 2003 – In an effort to discredit U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an op-ed criticizing the invasion of Iraq, his wife Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative was leaked to and published by journalist Robert Novak.
- Sixto Durán Ballén (b. 1921)
- Howard Webb (b. 1971)
- Constance Stokes (d. 1991)