Today is July 14
Pick Blueberries Day
Tape Measure Day
Corkboard Day
Food Holidays – July 14
National Grand Marnier Day
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Today in History – Interesting Highlights
Holidays and Observances
Bastille Day (France and French dependencies)
Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag day. (Sweden)
Christian Feast Day:
Camillus de Lellis (Roman Catholic Church, except in the United States)
Francis Solanus
Idus of Leinster
Kateri Tekakwitha (United States)
Samson Occom (Episcopal Church (United States))
John Keble (Church of England)
Libert of Saint-Trond
Ulrich of Zell
July 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which the first day of Gentse Feesten can fall, while July 20 is the latest; celebrated on Saturday before July 21. (Ghent)
Republic Day (Iraq)
In the News
1900 – Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.
1902 – The Campanile in St. Mark’s Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
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 aGold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat.
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.
1928 – New Vietnam Revolutionary Party is founded in Huế amid providing some of the communist party’s most important leaders in its early years.
1933 – Gleichschaltung: in Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
1933 – The Nazi eugenics begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring that calls for thecompulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.
1943 – In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
1948 – Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
1950 – Korean War: North Korean troops initiate the Battle of Taejon.
1957 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
1958 – Iraqi Revolution: in Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abdul Karim Kassem, who becomes the nation’s new leader.
1960 – Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
1965 – The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
1969 – Football War: after Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
1969 – The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
1976 – Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
1987 – Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
1992 – 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
2000 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
2002 – French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
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”.
Movies
Movies Released on July 14
The Land Unknown 1957
The Swarm 1978
Hobgoblins 1988
16th James Bond movies “Licence to Kill” premieres 1989
The Atomic Space Bug 1999
Muppets From Space 1999
X-Men 2000
Supergator 2007
Television
1968 - WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 - WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1990 - “Howard Stern’s Summer Show” premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
Music
1901 – Composer Gerald Finzi was born.
1942 – Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly sang their last duet together when they recorded the famous “Brazil” with the Jimmy Dorsey band.
1956 - Fats Domino hit #1 on the R&B chart and #3 on the pop chart with his song “I’m In Love Again”.
1967 - The Who began their first full-scale U.S. tour as the opening act for Herman’s Hermits.
1969 - Bob Dylan made a surprise appearance with The Band at the Mississippi River Rock Festival. He performed three songs.
1973 - The Everly Brothers announced their break up during a show at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA.
1987 - Steve Miller got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1987 – “U Got The Look” by Prince was released.
1988 - Michael Jackson began his first British tour at Wembley Stadium in London.
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1989 - Cyndi Lauper released the first closed-captioned video. The video was for the song “My First Night Without You.”
1992 - Olivia Newton-John announced that she had breast cancer. Her publicist said that doctors expected a full recovery.
1993 – The U.S. Postal Service released 29-cent stamps that honored four Broadway musicals. The featured scenes were from “My Fair Lady,” “Porgy and Bess,” “Show Boat” and “Oklahoma!”
1995 - George Michael announced the settlement of his long running dispute with Sony and that he had been released from his contract.
1998 – Clive Davis held a party in Central Park to celebrate Sarah McLachlan’s album “Surfacing,” which had gone triple platinum.
1998 - Mariah Carey volunteered to record a public service announcement about a girl who had disappeared a month earlier in Seaside, CA.
2000 – It was announced that the Go-Go’s had gotten back together again for a tour, new album, a book and a movie.
2000 - Dr. Dre filed suit against the city of Detroit alleging censorship. The lawsuit stemmed from a concert stop in Detroit on July 6, 2000, when Dre was told he and the tour organizers would be arrested if he showed a video during the concert. The video contained nudity and graphic violence.
2010 – Bono (U2) announced that he had fully recovered from an emergency back surgery in May 2010.
2010 – The BBC reported that Bob Geldof’s global Live Aid concert was being made into a TV film entitled “When Harvey met Bob.”
Sports
1934 - Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
1934 - Ruth hits 700th career home run
1953 - 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1967 - Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal
1968 - Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
1974 - Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
1995 - LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
2009 - 80th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Busch Stadium, St Louis
Famous Birthdays
1901 – Gerald Finzi, English composer (d. 1956)
1901 – George Tobias, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
1903 – Irving Stone, American author (d. 1989)
1906 – Tom Carvel, Greek-American businessman, founded Carvel (d. 1990)
1906 – William H. Tunner, American general (d. 1983)
1910 – William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2001)
1911 – Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author (d. 2000)
1911 – Terry-Thomas, English actor and singer (d. 1990)
1912 – Northrop Frye, Canadian critic (d. 1991)
1912 – Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Almanac Singers) (d. 1967)
1913 – Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)
1917 – George Bookasta, American actor and director (d. 2014)
1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1918 – Arthur Laurents, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2011)
1919 – Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (d. 1987)
1920 – Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician, Minister of Finance for India (d. 2004)
1921 – Sixto Durán Ballén, American-Ecuadorian politician, 48th President of Ecuador
1921 – Leon Garfield, English author (d. 1996)
1921 – Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1922 – Robert Creamer, American journalist (d. 2012)
1922 – Robin Olds, American general and pilot (d. 2007)
1922 – Elfriede Rinkel, German SS officer
1923 – Dale Robertson, American actor and singer (d. 2013)
1923 – Willie Steele, American long jumper (d. 1989)
1923 – Robert Zildjian, American businessman, founded Sabian (d. 2013)
1924 – Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (d. 2013)
1925 – Sheila Guyse, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1926 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor and singer
1927 – John Chancellor, American journalist (d. 1996)
1927 – Mike Esposito, American illustrator (d. 2010)
1927 – Peggy Parish, American author (d. 1988)
1928 – Nancy Olson, American actress
1930 – Polly Bergen, American actress and singer
1931 – Jacqueline de Ribes, French fashion designer
1931 – E. V. Thompson, English author (d. 2012)
1932 – Rosey Grier, American football player and actor
1932 – Princess Margarita of Baden (d. 2013)
1933 – Robert Bourassa, Canadian politician, 22nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1996)
1933 – Franz, Duke of Bavaria
1936 – Pema Chödrön, American nun and author
1936 – Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1996)
1937 – Yoshirō Mori, Japanese politician, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
1938 – Jerry Rubin, American activist, author, and businessman (d. 1994)
1938 – Tommy Vig, Hungarian vibraphone player, drummer, and composer
1939 – Karel Gott, Czech singer-songwriter and actor
1939 – Sid Haig, American actor
1939 – George Edgar Slusser, American scholar and author
1940 – Susan Howatch, English author
1941 – Maulana Karenga, American philosopher, author, and activist, created Kwanzaa
1941 – Andreas Khol, German-Austrian politician
1942 – Ken Hutcherson, American football player (d. 2013)
1942 – Javier Solana, Spanish physicist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain
1943 – Christopher Priest, English author
1944 – Billy McCool, American baseball player
1945 – Jim Gordon, American drummer and songwriter (Traffic, Derek and the Dominos, Delaney & Bonnie, and Souther–Hillman–Furay Band)
1946 – Vincent Pastore, American actor
1946 – John Wood, Australian actor and screenwriter
1947 – Claudia Kennedy, American general
1947 – Navin Ramgoolam, Mauritius politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Mauritius
1948 – Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu of Zulu
1948 – Earl Williams, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1949 – Tommy Mottola, American businessman
1951 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
1952 – Bob Casale, American guitarist, keyboard player, and producer (Devo) (d. 2014)
1952 – Franklin Graham, American evangelist and missionary
1952 – Eric Laneuville, American actor, director, and producer
1952 – Joel Silver, American actor and producer, co-founded Dark Castle Entertainment
1953 – Bebe Buell, American model and singer
1953 – Martha Coakley, American politician, 58th Attorney General of Massachusetts
1955 – L. Brent Bozell III, American journalist and activist, founded the Media Research Center
1956 – Julio Chávez, Argentinian actor
1958 – Mircea Geoană, Romanian politician and diplomat, 97th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Romania
1958 – Robert Jensen, American journalist and educator
1958 – Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, producer, and author
1960 – Anna Bligh, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Queensland
1960 – Kyle Gass, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Tenacious D and Trainwreck)
1960 – Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter and activist
1960 – Jane Lynch, American actress and singer
1960 – Mike McPhee, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
1962 – Antonio Díaz Sánchez, Cuban activist
1962 – Jeff Olson, American drummer, songwriter, and radio host Trouble, Retro Grave, and The Skull
1963 – Jacques Lacombe, Canadian organist and conductor
1963 – Phil Rosenthal, American journalist
1963 – Aja, American pornographic actress, adult film director and exotic dancer
1965 – Urmas Kruuse, Estonian politician
1966 – Juliet Cesario, American actress
1966 – Owen Coyle, Scottish-Irish footballer and manager
1966 – Tanya Donelly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Throwing Muses, Belly, and The Breeders)
1966 – Matthew Fox, American actor
1966 – Ellen Reid, Canadian singer and pianist (Crash Test Dummies)
1966 – Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator
1966 – Matt Hume American mixed martial artist and trainer
1967 – Marios Constantinou, Cypriot footballer and manager
1967 – Jeff Jarrett, American wrestler and promoter, co-founded Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
1967 – Patrick J. Kennedy, American politician
1967 – Robin Ventura, American baseball player and manager
1968 – Michael Palmer, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore
1969 – José Hernández, Puerto Rican baseball player
1969 – Kazushi Sakuraba, Japanese mixed martial artist and wrestler
1969 – Sven Sester, Estonian politician
1969 – Craig Ricci Shaynak, American actor and producer
1970 – Thomas Lauderdale, American pianist (Pink Martini)
1970 – Nina Siemaszko, American actress
1971 – Mark LoMonaco, American wrestler
1971 – Nick McCabe, English guitarist (The Verve and The Black Ships)
1971 – Ross Rebagliati, Canadian snowboarder
1971 – Madhu Sapre, Indian model, Miss India 1992
1971 – Joey Styles, American sportscaster
1971 – Marie-Chantal Toupin, Canadian singer
1971 – Howard Webb, English footballer and referee
1972 – Deborah Mailman, Australian actress
1973 – Tani Fuga, Samoan rugby player
1973 – Paul Methric, American rapper and producer (Twiztid, Dark Lotus, and Psychopathic Rydas)
1973 – Halil Mutlu, Turkish weightlifter
1973 – Candela Peña, Spanish actress
1973 – Adam Quinn, American bagpipes player and composer (Lucid Druid)
1974 – Erick Dampier, American basketball player
1974 – David Mitchell, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1975 – Taboo, American rapper and actor (The Black Eyed Peas)
1975 – Tim Hudson, American baseball player
1975 – Jamey Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Ranj Dhaliwal, Canadian author
1976 – Geraint Jones, Papua New Guinean-English cricketer
1976 – Kirsten Sheridan, Irish director and screenwriter
1976 – Monique Covét, Hungarian pornographic actress and fetish model
1977 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
1978 – Mattias Ekström, Swedish race car driver
1978 – Caroline Lesley, Canadian-American actress
1978 – Kristy Wright, Australian actress
1979 – Bernie Castro, Dominican baseball player
1979 – Scott Porter, American actor and singer
1979 – Axel Teichmann, German skier
1980 – Chad Faust, Canadian-American actor, singer, director, and producer
1980 – Jed Madela, Filipino singer-songwriter
1980 – George Smith, Australian rugby player
1981 – Milow, Belgian singer-songwriter
1981 – Trevor Fehrman, American actor
1981 – Robbie Maddison, Australian motorcycle racer
1981 – Lee Mead, English actor and singer
1982 – Dmitry Chaplin, Russian-American dancer and choreographer
1982 – Achille Coser, Italian footballer
1982 – Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, Nigerian Lawyer and Media Personality
1983 – Igor Andreev, Russian tennis player
1983 – Drew Cheetwood, American actor
1983 – Wesley Dening, Australian television host and producer
1983 – Thomas Howard, American football player (d. 2013)
1983 – Tito Muñoz, American conductor
1984 – Nilmar, Brazilian footballer
1984 – Renaldo Balkman, American basketball player
1984 – Erica Blasberg, American golfer (d. 2010)
1984 – Lenka Dlhopolcová, Slovak tennis player
1984 – Mounir El Hamdaoui, Moroccan footballer
1984 – Samir Handanović, Slovenian footballer
1984 – Fleur Saville, New Zealand actress
1985 – Billy Celeski, Australian footballer
1985 – Lee Kwang-soo, Korean actor
1985 – Darrelle Revis, American football player
1985 – Altuna Sejdiu, Albanian-Macedonian singer
1986 – Alexander Gerndt, Swedish footballer
1987 – Aqeel Ahmed, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1987 – Sara Canning, Canadian actress
1987 – Dan Reynolds (musician), American lead singer for Imagine Dragons
1986 – Dan Smith (Bastille), British lead singer for Bastille (band)
1987 – Margus Hunt, Estonian American football player, discus thrower and shot putter
1987 – Adam Johnson, English footballer
1987 – Sean Smith, American football player
1987 – Ryan Sweeting, Bahamian-born American tennis player
1988 – James Vaughan, English footballer
1988 – Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist
1989 – Sean Flynn, American actor
1991 – Shabazz Napier, American basketball player
1993 – Dovilė Dzindzaletaitė, Lithuanian triple jumper
1999 – Camryn, American singer and actress
1999 – Dawson Dunbar, Canadian actor
Deaths
1904 – Paul Kruger, South African politician, 5th President of the South African Republic (b. 1824)
1907 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist (b. 1838)
1910 – Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
1917 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
1918 – Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
1924 – Isabella Ford, English activist (b. 1855)
1925 – Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (b. 1901)
1936 – Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American scholar (b. 1890)
1939 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter (b. 1860)
1954 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1954 – Jackie Saunders, American actress (b. 1892)
1965 – Adlai Stevenson II, American politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1900)
1966 – Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
1967 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian author and poet (b. 1880)
1968 – Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian author and poet (b. 1892)
1968 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, 164th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1907)
1970 – Preston Foster, American actor and singer (b. 1900)
1970 – Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor (b. 1914)
1974 – Carl Andrew Spaatz, American general (b. 1891)
1975 – Madan Mohan, Iraqi-Indian director and composer (b. 1924)
1984 – Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1928)
1984 – Philippé Wynne, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1941)
1986 – Raymond Loewy, American industrial designer (b. 1893)
1989 – Frank Bell, English educator (b. 1916)
1990 – Walter Sedlmayr, German actor and director (b. 1926)
1993 – Léo Ferré, Monacan singer-songwriter, pianist, and poet (b. 1916)
1994 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1940)
1996 – Jeff Krosnoff, American race car driver (b. 1964)
1998 – Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald’s (b. 1909)
2000 – Pepo, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
2000 – William Roscoe Estep, American historian and educator (b. 1920)
2000 – Meredith MacRae, American actress and singer (b. 1944)
2000 – Georges Maranda, Canadian baseball player (b. 1932)
2001 – Guy de Lussigny, French painter (b. 1929)
2002 – Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 41st President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2002 – “Pierre Chauvet”, Austrian racing driver (b. 1943)
2003 – François-Albert Angers, Canadian economist (b. 1909)
2003 – Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian author (b. 1926)
2004 – Nelly Borgeaud, Swiss-French actress (b. 1931)
2005 – Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
2005 – Cicely Saunders, English nurse and physician (b. 1918)
2007 – John Ferguson, Sr., Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1938)
2008 – Henki Kolstad, Norwegian actor (b. 1915)
2009 – Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish actor (b. 1934)
2010 – Gene Ludwig, American organist (b. 1937)
2010 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (b. 1925)
2010 – Mădălina Manole, Romanian singer and actress (b. 1967)
2012 – John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Scottish businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1924)
2012 – Barton Biggs, American businessman (b. 1932)
2012 – Don Brinkley, American screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1921)
2012 – Frank R. Burns, American football player and coach (b. 1928)
2012 – Ennio Cardoni, Italian footballer (b. 1929)
2012 – Bohuslav Ceplecha, Czech race car driver (b. 1977)
2012 – King Hill, American football player (b. 1936)
2012 – Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier (b. 1929)
2012 – Roy Shaw, English businessman and boxer (b. 1936)
2012 – Enrique Silva Cimma, Chilean academic, lawyer, and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Chile (b. 1918)
2012 – Sidney Oslin Smith Jr., American judge (b. 1923)
2013 – Tonino Accolla, Italian actor (b. 1949)
2013 – Herbert M. Allison, American lieutenant and businessman (b. 1943)
2013 – Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
2013 – Dennis Burkley, American actor (b. 1945)
2013 – Simmie Hill, American basketball player (b. 1946)
2013 – Saturnino Rustrián, Guatemalan cyclist (b. 1942)
2013 – George Smith, English footballer (b. 1921)
2013 – Bill Warner, American motorcycle racer (b. 1969)
2013 – Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1946)
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