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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2009-01-6
Births
1608-07-14 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
1610-07-14 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1634-07-14 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
1671-07-14 - Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
1675-07-14 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
1676-07-14 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
1696-07-14 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
1721-07-14 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
1743-07-14 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
1801-07-14 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
1816-07-14 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
1829-07-14 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)
1857-07-14 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928)
1859-07-14 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
1860-07-14 - Owen Wister, American author (d. 1938)
1862-07-14 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
1865-07-14 - Arthur Capper, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1951)
1868-07-14 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)
1874-07-14 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944)
1885-07-14 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
1891-07-14 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d. 1977)
1893-07-14 - Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
1896-07-14 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
1898-07-14 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1901-07-14 - Gerald Finzi, British composer (d. 1956)
1904-07-14 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish author (d. 1991)
1906-07-14 - Tom Carvel, Greek-born businessman and inventor (d. 1990)
1910-07-14 - William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
1911-07-14 - Terry-Thomas, British actor (d. 1990)
1912-07-14 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
1912-07-14 - Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967)
1913-07-14 - Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
1918-07-14 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director
1918-07-14 - Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director
1919-07-14 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)
1921-07-14 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
1921-07-14 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1923-07-14 - Dale Robertson, American actor
1924-07-14 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1926-07-14 - Harry Dean Stanton, American actor
1927-07-14 - John Chancellor, American television commentator (d. 1996)
1928-07-14 - Nancy Olson, American actress
1930-07-14 - Polly Bergen, American actress, singer, and entrepreneur
1932-07-14 - Roosevelt Grier, American football player, actor, and minister
1937-07-14 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
1938-07-14 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (d. 1994)
1939-07-14 - Karel Gott, Czech singer
1939-07-14 - George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
1941-07-14 - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
1941-07-14 - Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
1942-07-14 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
1944-07-14 - Billy McCool, baseball player
1946-07-14 - John Wood, Australian actor
1947-07-14 - Claudia Kennedy, retired U.S. Army lieutenant general
1950-07-14 - Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999)
1951-07-14 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
1952-07-14 - Franklin Graham, American evangelist
1956-07-14 - Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor
1961-07-14 - Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
1965-07-14 - Igor Khoroshev, Russian keyboard player (Yes)
1966-07-14 - Charles Edward Ambler, British noble
1966-07-14 - Tanya Donelly, American musician (Belly)
1966-07-14 - Ellen Reid, Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies)
1966-07-14 - Matthew Fox, American actor
1967-07-14 - Robin Ventura, baseball player
1971-07-14 - Bubba Ray Dudley, American professional wrestler
1971-07-14 - Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator
1973-07-14 - Monoxide Child, Twiztid
1973-07-14 - Adam Quinn, American bagpipe player
1974-07-14 - Matt Evans, Screenwriter
1974-07-14 - David Mitchell, English comedian and actor
1975-07-14 - Taboo, American rapper
1975-07-14 - Tim Hudson, baseball player
1976-07-14 - Geraint Jones, English cricketer
1977-07-14 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
1979-07-14 - Bernie Castro, baseball player
1980-07-14 - George Smith (Australian rugby player), Australian Rugby Union Player
1988-07-14 - James Vaughan, English footballer
1989-07-14 - Sean Flynn-Amir, American actor
1454-07-14 - Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d. 1494)
1602-07-14 - Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661)
Bizarre
2006-07-14 - Bastille Day
2006-07-14 - Flag Day
2006-07-14 - Pandemonium Day
2006-07-14 - National Nude Day
2007-07-14 - Bastille Day
2007-07-14 - Flag Day
2007-07-14 - Pandemonium Day
2007-07-14 - National Nude Day
Deaths
1223-07-14 - King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
1270-07-14 - Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
1274-07-14 - Saint Bonaventure (b. 1221)
1575-07-14 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
1614-07-14 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
1671-07-14 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
1723-07-14 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
1742-07-14 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1766-07-14 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
1774-07-14 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
1780-07-14 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
1789-07-14 - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
1789-07-14 - Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the Bastille (b.1740)
1790-07-14 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1817-07-14 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
1827-07-14 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1834-07-14 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
1850-07-14 - August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
1876-07-14 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
1881-07-14 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?)
1887-07-14 - Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer (b. 1812)
1904-07-14 - Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (b. 1824)
1907-07-14 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
1917-07-14 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
1954-07-14 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1965-07-14 - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Presidential candidate (b. 1900)
1967-07-14 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
1968-07-14 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1975-07-14 - Madan Mohan, Hindi Film's Melodious Music director
1984-07-14 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
1984-07-14 - Philippe Wynne, American musician (b. 1941)
1994-07-14 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1940)
1996-07-14 - Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver (b. 1964)
1998-07-14 - Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1909)
1999-07-14 - Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth)
2000-07-14 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2002-07-14 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2003-07-14 - Tex Schramm, American football general manager (b. 1920)
2003-07-14 - Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist (b. 1926)
Declared
2007-07-14 - France and all French dependencies - Bastille Day.
Events
1223-07-14 - In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
1789-07-14 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
1790-07-14 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
1791-07-14 - The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
1825-07-14 - The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society was founded at the University of Virginia.
1827-07-14 - The first Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Hawaiian Islands by Fathers Abraham Armand and Alexis Bachelot of France and Patrick Short of the United Kingdom, members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It would be the founda
1902-07-14 - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
1933-07-14 - Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
1940-07-14 - World War II: Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the 7th Army Corps consisting of British, Canadian and New Zealand troops.
1943-07-14 - In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a black American.
1948-07-14 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
1954-07-14 - The central region of the United States suffers extremely hot weather, with the temperature reaching 118° F (48° C) in Warsaw and Union, Missouri, and 117° F (47° C) in East St. Louis, Illinois, setting new all-time state record high temperatures.
1958-07-14 - Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation's new leader.
1965-07-14 - Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
1966-07-14 - In Chicago, Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory.
1966-07-14 - A fire at a mental hospital in Guatemala City kills 225.
1967-07-14 - Eddie Mathews becomes the seventh member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.
1968-07-14 - Hank Aaron becomes the eighth member of the 500 home run club with a home run off Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants at Fulton County Stadium.
1969-07-14 - Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion o
1969-07-14 - Large denominations of United States currency, namely the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills, are officially withdrawn from circulation by the Federal Reserve System due to "lack of use," leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating United
1981-07-14 - MCLN bombs a popular cinema in Bangui, Central African Republic. Afterwards a declaration is issued, demanding withdrawal of French troops from the country.
1984-07-14 - New Zealand elects the Fourth Labour Government bringing in David Lange as Prime Minister of New Zealand, and thus breaking nine years of National party governance under Robert Muldoon. It was this government that introduced the world's first and only nuc
1988-07-14 - Volkswagen's automobile plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - the first auto assembly plant operated by a non-American car manufacturer in the United States - closes after little more than a decade of operation. The plant built Volkswagen's Rabbit
1989-07-14 - F-16 first kill by an Israeli Air Force pilot shooting down a Syrian MIG-21.
1992-07-14 - A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" Museum and several other local businesses and attractions in the process.
1995-07-14 - The MP3 format was named.
2000-07-14 - George Speight, the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with treason.
2002-07-14 - During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.
2005-07-14 - Europe holds a two minute silence at 12:00 BST in remembrance of the 7/7 bombings of London, United Kingdom
2006-07-14 - The verdict in the Italian Football Match Fixing Scandal was delivered- Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina were all relegated. AC Milan were spared relegation.
2006-07-14 - Hezbollah declares war on Israel.
2015-07-14 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly by Pluto and Charon at 50,000 kilometers per hour and explore the area for five months until distance becomes too great. New Horizons will then enter the Kuiper Belt and eventually leave our Solar System.
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