Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on July 14 throughout history.
The GippsAero GA8 Airvan is a single-engined utility aircraft manufactured by GippsAero of Victoria, Australia. It can seat up to eight people, including the pilot.
A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.
On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulti…
A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434…
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research i…
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
An outdoor sculpture depicting the biologist, conservationist, and author Rachel Carson by David Lewis was installed in Waterfront Park in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States…
Dedication of statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Jacques René Chirac was a French politician who was President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well a…
French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at…
Bradley John Murdoch was an Australian criminal who served a sentence of life imprisonment for the July 2001 murder of English backpacker Peter Falconio in Australia. Murdoch was …
Australian criminal Bradley John Murdoch murders British tourist Peter Falconio and abducted his girlfriend in the…
Rus Flight 9633 refers to the crash involving an IL-76TD aircraft operated by Rus Airlines from Chkalovsky Airport to Taiyuan Wusu Airport with intermediate stops at Alykel Airpor…
Rus Flight 9633 crashes during takeoff from Chkalovsky Airport, killing all 10 people on board.
Mario Bros. is a 1983 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for arcades. It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo's chief engineer. Players contr…
Mario Bros. is released in Japan, beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.
Mariner 4 was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct closeup scientific observations of Mars and to tr…
Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six…
Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Regarded as a pioneer in primate ethology, and described by many publications as "the world's pre…
Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1–11 was a Northwest Orient Airlines flight from New York City to Manila, with stopovers in Seattle, Anchorage, Tokyo, and Okinawa. On July 14, 19…
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 ditches off Polillo Island in the Philippines, killing one person and injuring 44.
The 14 July Revolution, also known as the 1958 Iraqi military coup, was a military coup that took place on 14 July 1958 in Iraq, resulting in the toppling of King Faisal II and th…
In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes…
Rawya Ateya[I] was an Egyptian woman who became the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world in 1957.
Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the…
Ferrari S.p.A, currently competing as Scuderia Ferrari HP, is the racing division of luxury Italian auto manufacturer Ferrari and the racing team that competes in Formula One raci…
Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
The Korean War was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, …
Korean War: beginning of the Battle of Taejon.
Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and statesman who led the Italian Communist Party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-…
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
Diamond is a city in north central Newton County, Missouri, United States, located southeast of Joplin. The population was 831 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missou…
In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument…
Wardha is a city and a municipal council in Wardha district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The administrative headquarter of Wardha district is situated here. Wardha gets its…
In the Wardha session of Congress, the "Quit India" resolution is approved, authorising Mahatma Gandhi to campaign for…
In Nazi terminology, Gleichschaltung, meaning 'synchronization' or 'coordination', was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler—leader of the Nazi Party in Germany—establ…
In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.
The social policies of eugenics in Nazi Germany were composed of various ideas about genetics. The racial ideology of Nazism placed the biological improvement of the German people…
Nazi eugenics programme begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring…