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Events on the 14th of July in history

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14 Jul 0756 An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong flees the capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advance toward the city.
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14 Jul 1223 Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
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14 Jul 1535 Emperor Charles V conquerors Tunis
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14 Jul 1544 English troops attack The Canal
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14 Jul 1581 English Jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
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14 Jul 1682 Henry Purcell appointed Organist of Chapel Royal, London
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14 Jul 1714 Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
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14 Jul 1769 An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
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14 Jul 1771 Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
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14 Jul 1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
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14 Jul 1789 Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
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14 Jul 1789 French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
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14 Jul 1789 Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
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14 Jul 1789 Bastille Day-citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison
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14 Jul 1790 French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
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14 Jul 1791 The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
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14 Jul 1798 Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against US government
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14 Jul 1798 The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
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14 Jul 1798 1st direct federal tax on the states-on dwellings, land & slaves
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14 Jul 1798 Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing
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14 Jul 1822 Slave revolt in SC under Denmark Vesey / Peter Poyas
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14 Jul 1823 Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
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14 Jul 1832 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
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14 Jul 1845 Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes and kills many
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14 Jul 1845 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
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14 Jul 1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
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14 Jul 1853 President Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)
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14 Jul 1853 Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
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14 Jul 1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
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14 Jul 1861 Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA with 40,000 troops
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14 Jul 1861 Naval Engagement at Wilmington NC - USS Daylight establishes blockade
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14 Jul 1863 Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek)
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14 Jul 1863 Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
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14 Jul 1864 Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana
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14 Jul 1865 Whymper, Hudson, Croz, Douglas and Hadow 1st to climb Matterhorn
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14 Jul 1865 First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
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14 Jul 1865 1st ascent of Matterhorn
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14 Jul 1868 Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure
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14 Jul 1868 Tape measure enclosed in a circular case patented, AJ Fellows, Ct
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14 Jul 1874 The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
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14 Jul 1877 General strike brings US railroad to a stand still
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14 Jul 1877 The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.
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14 Jul 1881 Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
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14 Jul 1891 John T Smith patents corkboard
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14 Jul 1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #370 Modestia
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14 Jul 1900 Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.
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14 Jul 1902 The Campanile in St. Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
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14 Jul 1911 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
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14 Jul 1911 Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat.
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14 Jul 1912 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
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14 Jul 1914 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)
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14 Jul 1914 NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
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14 Jul 1914 Robert Hutchins Goddard patents a liquid-fuel rocket motor
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14 Jul 1916 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record)
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14 Jul 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.
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14 Jul 1916 St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston
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14 Jul 1918 Dutch government reclaims South seas
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14 Jul 1921 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of
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14 Jul 1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
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14 Jul 1928 New Vietnam Revolutionary Party is founded in Huế amid providing some of the communist party's most important leaders in its early years.
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14 Jul 1932 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
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14 Jul 1933 Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
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14 Jul 1933 NSDAP becomes only party in Germany
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14 Jul 1933 Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 and 9-44, at Leyton
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14 Jul 1933 Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
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14 Jul 1933 The Nazi eugenics begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring that calls for the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.
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14 Jul 1934 New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
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14 Jul 1934 Ruth hits 700th career home run
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14 Jul 1934 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1325 Inanda & #1326 Losaka
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14 Jul 1934 Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
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14 Jul 1936 116
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14 Jul 1938 Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish / African manifest
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14 Jul 1940 Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
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14 Jul 1940 Lithuania becomes the Lithuanian SSR
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14 Jul 1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
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14 Jul 1941 Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria)
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14 Jul 1941 Jam rationed in Holland
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14 Jul 1942 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
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14 Jul 1942 Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
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14 Jul 1943 In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
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14 Jul 1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
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14 Jul 1944 US assault on Coutances Cotentin
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14 Jul 1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
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14 Jul 1946 Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
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14 Jul 1946 Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted
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14 Jul 1947 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1747 Wright
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14 Jul 1948 Israel bombs Cairo
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14 Jul 1948 Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
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14 Jul 1949 USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb
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14 Jul 1950 Korean War: North Korean troops initiate the Battle of Taejon.
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14 Jul 1950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
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14 Jul 1951 "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 performances
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14 Jul 1951 George Washington Carver monument unveiled
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14 Jul 1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
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14 Jul 1951 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
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14 Jul 1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
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14 Jul 1953 1st National monument dedicated to a Negro - George Washington Carver
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14 Jul 1953 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
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14 Jul 1953 NL beats AL 5-1 in 20th All Star Game (Crosley Field Cincinnati)
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14 Jul 1954 117
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14 Jul 1954 118
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14 Jul 1955 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
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14 Jul 1956 Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
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14 Jul 1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
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14 Jul 1957 Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
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14 Jul 1958 Colonel Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
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14 Jul 1958 General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq
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14 Jul 1958 Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th and last encyclical Meminisse juvat
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14 Jul 1958 Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abdul Karim Kassem, who becomes the nation's new leader.
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14 Jul 1958 Iraqi army overthrows monarchy; republic replaces Hashemite dynasty
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14 Jul 1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach - Quincy, Massachusetts
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14 Jul 1960 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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14 Jul 1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
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14 Jul 1960 Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
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14 Jul 1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane
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14 Jul 1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
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14 Jul 1961 Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
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14 Jul 1962 Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
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14 Jul 1962 Brave's Hank Aaron hits HR #500
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14 Jul 1963 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
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14 Jul 1964 Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
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14 Jul 1965 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
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14 Jul 1965 Israeli / Jordanian border fights
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14 Jul 1965 The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
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14 Jul 1965 US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
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14 Jul 1966 Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
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14 Jul 1967 Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal
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14 Jul 1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
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14 Jul 1968 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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14 Jul 1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
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14 Jul 1968 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
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14 Jul 1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
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14 Jul 1969 Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
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14 Jul 1969 WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
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14 Jul 1969 Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
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14 Jul 1969 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
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14 Jul 1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins
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14 Jul 1970 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
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14 Jul 1970 All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
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14 Jul 1970 NL wins 8th straight All Star Game, 5-4 in 12 innings (Riverfront, Cin)
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14 Jul 1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
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14 Jul 1972 Plate ump and catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump and Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, Kansas City Royals win 1-0
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14 Jul 1972 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids #1959 Karbyshev & #2423 Ibarruri
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14 Jul 1973 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
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14 Jul 1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to the Everly Brothers
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14 Jul 1974 Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
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14 Jul 1974 Bundy victims Janice Ott and Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, Washington
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14 Jul 1974 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
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14 Jul 1975 EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
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14 Jul 1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic Presidential Nomination in New York City
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14 Jul 1976 USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to the Netherlands
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14 Jul 1976 Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
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14 Jul 1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NY
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14 Jul 1977 North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
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14 Jul 1977 US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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14 Jul 1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2286 Fesenkov, #2492 Kutuzov,
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14 Jul 1978 Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
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14 Jul 1978 Anatoly Shcharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
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14 Jul 1983 Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
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14 Jul 1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
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14 Jul 1985 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
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14 Jul 1985 Kathy Baker beats Judy Clark to win golf's US Women's Open
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14 Jul 1985 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
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14 Jul 1986 10 killed and 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
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14 Jul 1986 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in
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14 Jul 1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press"
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14 Jul 1986 Jane Geddes beats Sally Little to win golf's US Women's Open
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14 Jul 1986 NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
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14 Jul 1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press"
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14 Jul 1986 Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
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14 Jul 1987 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland - Alameda Stadium
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14 Jul 1987 All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)
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14 Jul 1987 Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson
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14 Jul 1987 Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
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14 Jul 1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
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14 Jul 1987 Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
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14 Jul 1987 NL defeats AL, 2-0 in 13, in 58th All-Star Game in Oakland, Calif
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14 Jul 1987 Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
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14 Jul 1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
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14 Jul 1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
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14 Jul 1988 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
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14 Jul 1988 Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place
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14 Jul 1989 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres
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14 Jul 1989 The 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premiers
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14 Jul 1990 "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premiers on WWOR-TV
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14 Jul 1991 Failed military coup in Mali
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14 Jul 1992 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, South Dakota
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14 Jul 1992 Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery
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14 Jul 1992 All star MVP: Ken Griffey Jr (Seattle Mariners)
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14 Jul 1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
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14 Jul 1993 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and New York
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14 Jul 1994 Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
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14 Jul 1995 LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
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14 Jul 1995 Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Marlins
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14 Jul 1996 "How To Succeed in Business..." closes at R Rodgers NYC after 548 performances
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14 Jul 1996 "Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 32 performances
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14 Jul 1996 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd
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14 Jul 1996 Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
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14 Jul 1996 New York Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves
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14 Jul 1996 New York Yanks sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time
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14 Jul 1997 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 andwounds 40
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14 Jul 2000 A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
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14 Jul 2002 French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
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14 Jul 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".
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14 Jul 2015 Closest approach of New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto-Charon system.
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