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 -
Storming of the Bastille -
The Bastille -
The Bastille -
Picture of Mars taken from Mariner 4 -
Mariner 4 -
Jefferson opposed the Sedition Act -
Springer the Orca -
Jane Goodall -
Valerie Plame -
The attack on Joseph Priestley's home, Fairhill -
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 |
| 1798 – The Sedition Act became United States law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government. | 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 |
| 1881 – American frontier outlaw and gunman Billy the Kid was killed by sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. | appears on September 23 |
| 1902 – Venice's St Mark's Campanile collapsed, also demolishing the loggetta but only killing the caretaker's cat. | unreferenced section, lead too short |
| 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 |
| 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. | 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 |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 1958 – Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim.
- 1987 – Over 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain fell in a two-and-a-half-hour period in Montreal, causing severe flooding and over C$220 million in damages.
- 1995 – The MPEG-2 Audio Layer III audio coding format was given the filename extension by which it became known: MP3.
- 2003 – In an effort to discredit U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an op-ed critical of the invasion of Iraq, his wife Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative was leaked to and published by Washington Post columnist Robert Novak.
- 2015 – The New Horizons probe became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto.
- Born/died: James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley (d. 1774) · Edward White Benson (b. 1829) · Kate M. Gordon (b. 1861) · William Hanna (b. 1910) · Harry Atwood (d. 1967) · Constance Stokes (d. 1991)
July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789); Festino of Saint Rosalia begins in Palermo, Italy
- 1789 – French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille (pictured), freeing its inmates and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition.
- 1791 – The Priestley Riots began, in which Joseph Priestley and other religious Dissenters were driven out of Birmingham, England.
- 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.
- 1965 – The NASA spacecraft Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet.
- 2016 – A man deliberately drove a truck into crowds in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people.
John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford (d. 1526) · Alphonse Mucha (d. 1939) · Howard Webb (b. 1971)