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Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
Storming of the Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houël
The Bastille
The Bastille
Picture of Mars taken from Mariner 4
Mariner 4
Jefferson opposed the Sedition Act
Springer the orca
Jane Goodall
Valerie Plame
Attack on Joseph Priestley's home
Gaspar de Portolá
Ruins of St Mark's Campanile after its collapse
Matterhorn
Machu Picchu
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 756 – Emperor Xuanzong fled the Tang capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advanced toward the city during the An Lushan Rebellion. | unreferenced section |
| 1769 – Spanish soldier Gaspar de Portolá led the first European land expedition to present-day California. | Portolá: refimprove; Expedition: refimprove section |
| 1881 – American frontier outlaw and gunman Billy the Kid was killed by sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. | appears on September 23 |
| 1933 – With the enactment of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, the Nazi Party began its eugenics program. | refimprove |
| 1957 – Rawya Ateya took her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt to become the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world. | many {{cn}} tags (9) |
| 1958 – Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim. | lead too short |
| 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. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| 1965 – The NASA spacecraft Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet. | refimprove 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 |
| 1995 – The MPEG-2 Audio Layer III audio coding format was given the filename extension by which it became known: MP3. | refimprove section |
| 2002 – The orphaned killer whale named Springer was released after a month of captivity to become the only cetacean in history to be successfully re-integrated into a wild pod after human intervention. | unreferenced section |
| 2015 – The New Horizons probe became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto. | refimprove section |
| John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford |d|1526| | Too much uncited |
| Alphonse Mucha |d|1939| | Lead too short orange banner |
| Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden|b|1977| | Too much uncited |
Eligible
- 1455 – 1454–1466 Thirteen Years' War: The Battle for Kneiphof ended with a decisive victory for the Teutonic Order.
- 1789 – The Bastille, a fortress and prison in Paris, was stormed by a crowd during the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
- 1791 – The Priestley Riots, targeting religious dissenters such as Joseph Priestley, began in Birmingham, England.
- 1874 – A fire destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people in Chicago, leading to reforms in the city's fire-prevention and firefighting efforts.
- 1881 – While on the run from a death sentence, American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sherriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
- 1902 – The medieval St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapsed, also demolishing the Loggetta del Sansovino.
- 1902 – An expedition led by Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovered the Incan city of Machu Picchu (pictured).
- 1916 – The Battle of Delville Wood began as an action within the Battle of the Somme, lasting until 3 September 1916.
- 1950 – Korean War: North Korean troops began attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in present-day Daejeon, South Korea.
- 1987 – More than 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain fell in a two-and-a-half-hour period in parts of Montreal, causing severe flooding.
- 2003 – Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative was leaked to and published by journalist Robert Novak.
- 2016 – A man deliberately drove a truck into crowds in Nice, France, resulting in 86 deaths.
- Born/died: Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester|d|1262| James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley |d|1774| Arthur de Gobineau |b|1816| Edward White Benson |b|1829| Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld|b|1837| Kate M. Gordon |b|1861| Juliette Wytsman |b|1866| Roy Inwood |b|1890| Paul Kruger|d|1904| William Hanna |b|1910|Mihran Kassabian|d|1910| Sixto Durán Ballén |b|1921| Herbert Maryon |d|1965| Howard Webb |b|1971| Samir Handanović|b|1984| Constance Stokes |d|1991| Harrison Butker|b|1995| César Tovar |d|1994| Maryam Mirzakhani|d|2017|
July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789); Festino di Santa Rosalia begins in Palermo, Italy
The seal of Louis VIII of France
- 1223 – Louis VIII (seal pictured) became King of France and began a three-year reign.
- 1798 – The Sedition Act became law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
- 1865 – A seven-man team made the first ascent of the Matterhorn, marking the end of the golden age of alpinism.
- 1960 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 ditched off Polillo Island in the Philippines, killing one person and injuring 44.
- 2014 – Lightning strikes started four fires in the Methow River in the American state of Washington, collectively known as the Carlton Complex Fire.
- Andreas Joseph Hofmann (b. 1752)
- Georgiana Hill (b. 1825)
- Harry Atwood (d. 1967)
- Ivana Trump (d. 2022)