Major Events
- 1789 Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris (now celebrated as France's national day)
- 1798 US Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against government
- 1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie
- 1933 All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany
- 1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
- 1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz, starting the open source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds release "Linux" soon afterwards
- More July 14 Events
Jul 14 in Film & TV
- 1969 "Easy Rider", directed by Dennis Hopper, starring himself, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, is released
Jul 14 in Music
- 1795 The French National Convention decrees "La Marseillaise" by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle France's national anthem
Jul 14 in Sport
- 1964 51st Tour de France: Jacques Anquetil of France wins 4th consecutive Tour and is first to claim 5 titles
Did You Know?
Gertrude Bell
Ante Pavelić
Gerald Ford
Ben Enwonwu
William Hanna
Ingmar Bergman
Harry Dean Stanton
Jane Lynch
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Woody Guthrie
Dan Reynolds
Conor McGregor
Fun Fact About July 14
WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
Famous Weddings
- 1429 Duke Philip the Good (33) weds Isabella of Portugal (32) by proxy (he in Burgundy, she in Portugal)
- 1820 British PM Robert Peel (32) weds Sir John Floyd's daughter Julia at St George's, Hanover Square in London
- 1930 1st Filipino President Emilio Aguinaldo (61) weds second wife Maria Agoncillo (51) at Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan
Famous Divorces
- 1987 Actor Michael Biehn (30) divorces actress Carlene Olson (32) after 7 years of marriage
More July 14 Weddings
Johan Willem Friso
Billy the Kid
Paul Kruger
Adlai Stevenson II
Cicely Saunders
