July 14
People born on this day are Cancer.
- 1958
In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.
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Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.
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Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 ditches off Polillo Island in the Philippines, killing one person and injuring 44.
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Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
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Mario Bros. is released in Japan, beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.
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Australian criminal Bradley John Murdoch murders British tourist Peter Falconio and abducts his girlfriend in the Northern Territory.
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Rus Flight 9633 crashes during takeoff from Chkalovsky Airport, killing all 10 people on board.
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French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at Champs-Élysées.
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Dedication of the statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture of the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
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A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.
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A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.
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2004Noah Clowney, American basketball player
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2003Haley Winn, American hockey player
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1995Harrison Butker, American football player
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1995Kim In-hyeok, South Korean volleyball player (died 2022)
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1994Lucas Giolito, American baseball player
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1990Paulo Muacho, Portuguese politician
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1988Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist
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1988Jérémy Stravius, French swimmer
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1987Adam Johnson, English footballer
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1987Dan Reynolds, American singer-songwriter
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1986Dan Smith, British singer, songwriter and record producer
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1985Darrelle Revis, American football player
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