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.
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Storming of the Bastille -
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Springer the Orca -
Jane Goodall
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1223 – Louis VIII became King of France. | refimprove |
| 1789 – French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille (pictured), freeing its inmates and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition. | needs more footnotes |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 1933 – Gleichschaltung: All political parties in Germany were outlawed, except the National Socialist German Workers Party. | needs more footnotes |
| 1958 – King Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim. | Tagged for cleanup |
| 1965 – The NASA spacecraft Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet. | unreferenced 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 section |
Eligible
- 1791 – The Priestley Riots began, in which Joseph Priestley and other religious Dissenters were driven out of Birmingham, England.
- 1865 – The first ascent of the Matterhorn marked the end of the golden age of alpinism.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 CA$220 million in damages.
- 2003 – The U.S. Government admitted the existence of Area 51, the secretive military airfield in Nevada that has become a focus of various UFO and conspiracy theories, conceding that the U.S. Air Force does have an "operating location" there.
July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789)
- 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.
- 1933 – With the enactment of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, the Nazi Party began its eugenics program.
- 1957 – Rawya Ateya took her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt to become the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
- 1995 – The MP3 digital audio encoding format was named.
- 2002 – Orphaned killer whale Springer was released after a month of captivity to become the only whale in history to be successfully re-integrated into a wild pod after human intervention.
- 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 revealed that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame (pictured) was a CIA "operative".