What are the important events that happened on July 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 14 is the 196^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 170 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 1, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 478,032 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneacontahexagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 199 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,223 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 14 Historical Events

• 1791 –
  The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
• 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.
• 1902 –
  The Campanile in St. Mark’s Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
• 1957 –
  Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
• 1960 –
  Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
• 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  The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
• 1987 –
  Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
• 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.

Who were born on July 14?

• 1634 –
  Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
• 1921 –
  Leon Garfield, English children’s author (d. 1996)
• 1930 –
  Polly Bergen, American actress
• 1939 –
  George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
• 1942 –
  Javier Solana, Spanish politician, Secretary General of NATO and European Union High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
• 1943 –
  Christopher Priest, English novelist
• 1956 –
  Julio Chavez, Argentinian actor
• 1967 –
  Marios Constantinou, Greek-Cypriot footballer
• 1972 –
  Deborah Mailman, Australian actress
• 1985 –
  Darrelle Revis, American football player

Who died on July 14?

• 1223 –
  King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
• 1774 –
  James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
• 1816 –
  Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (b. 1750)
• 1876 –
  Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
• 1924 –
  Isabella Ford, English socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (b. 1855)
• 1968 –
  Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
• 1970 –
  Preston Foster, American stage and film actor (b. 1900)
• 2000 –
  William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
• 2008 –
  Henki Kolstad, Norwegian actor (b. 1915)
• 2010 –
  Mădălina Manole, Romanian pop recording artist (b. 1967)