July 14th 1420 Battle at Vitkov Zizka’s hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia
July 14th 1520 Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernan Cortes & Tlascala’s vs Aztecs
July 14th 1535 Emperor Charles V conquerors Tunis
July 14th 1544 English troops attack The Canal
July 14th 1581 English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
July 14th 1682 Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
July 14th 1714 Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
July 14th 1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
July 14th 1789 Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
July 14th 1798 Sedition Act prohibits “false, scandalous & malicious” writing against US govt
July 14th 1798 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land & slaves
July 14th 1822 Slave revolt in SC under Denmark Vesey/Peter Poyas
July 14th 1823 Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
July 14th 1832 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
July 14th 1845 Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many
July 14th 1845 1st postmasters’ provisional stamps issued, NYC
July 14th 1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
July 14th 1853 1st US World’s fair opens (Crystal Palace NY)
July 14th 1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
July 14th 1853 Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)
July 14th 1861 Naval Engagement at Wilmington NC – USS Daylight establishes blockade
July 14th 1861 Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA with 40,000 troops
July 14th 1863 Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek)
July 14th 1863 Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
July 14th 1864 Gold is discovered in Helena, Mont
July 14th 1865 Whymper, Hudson, Croz, Douglas & Hadow 1st to climb Matterhorn
July 14th 1865 1st ascent of Matterhorn
July 14th 1868 Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure
July 14th 1877 General strike brings US railroad to a stand still
July 14th 1891 John T Smith patents corkboard
July 14th 1909 Germany chancellor Bernhard von Blow resigns
July 14th 1911 46″ of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
July 14th 1912 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
July 14th 1914 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)
July 14th 1914 NL’s Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
July 14th 1916 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record)
July 14th 1916 St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston
July 14th 1918 Dutch govt reclaims South seas
July 14th 1921 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company’s paymaster
July 14th 1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
July 14th 1932 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
July 14th 1933 Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 & 9-44, at Leyton
July 14th 1933 NSDAP becomes only party in Germany
July 14th 1933 Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
July 14th 1934 116øF (47øC), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
July 14th 1934 NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
July 14th 1934 Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
July 14th 1934 Ruth hits 700th career home run
July 14th 1936 116øF (47øC), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
July 14th 1936 1 million demonstrate to support French People’s Front govt
July 14th 1938 Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest
July 14th 1940 Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
July 14th 1940 Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
July 14th 1941 Jam rationed in Holland
July 14th 1941 Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria)
July 14th 1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
July 14th 1942 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
July 14th 1942 Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
July 14th 1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
July 14th 1944 US assault on Coutances Cotentin
July 14th 1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
July 14th 1946 Dr Ben Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care” published
July 14th 1946 Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
July 14th 1946 Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs
July 14th 1948 Israel bombs Cairo
July 14th 1949 USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb
July 14th 1950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
July 14th 1951 ”Courtin’ Time” closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances
July 14th 1951 ”Make a Wish” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 perfs
July 14th 1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
July 14th 1951 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
July 14th 1951 George Washington Carver monument unveiled
July 14th 1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
July 14th 1953 Communist offensive in Korea
July 14th 1953 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
July 14th 1953 1st Natl monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver
July 14th 1954 117øF (47øC), East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
July 14th 1954 118øF (48øC), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record)
July 14th 1955 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
July 14th 1956 Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
July 14th 1957 Soviet steamer “Eshghbad” sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
July 14th 1958 General Abdul K Kassem forms a military govt in Iraq
July 14th 1958 Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th & last encyclical Meminisse juvat
July 14th 1958 Col Saddam Hussein & Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
July 14th 1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Mass
July 14th 1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
July 14th 1960 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
July 14th 1961 Astro’s Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
July 14th 1961 Finland’s Miettunen govt forms
July 14th 1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
July 14th 1962 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
July 14th 1962 Brave’s Hank Aaron hits HR #500
July 14th 1962 Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
July 14th 1963 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
July 14th 1964 Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
July 14th 1964 Oriole Bob Johnson’s 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter
July 14th 1965 US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
July 14th 1965 Israeli/Jordanian border fights
July 14th 1965 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
July 14th 1966 Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
July 14th 1967 Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal
July 14th 1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
July 14th 1967 The Who, opening for Herman’s Hermits begin a US tour
July 14th 1968 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
July 14th 1968 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
July 14th 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies’ Golf Classic
July 14th 1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
July 14th 1969 WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
July 14th 1969 Soccer war – Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
July 14th 1969 ”Futbol War” between El Salvador & Honduras begins
July 14th 1970 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
July 14th 1970 All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
July 14th 1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic Natl Committee
July 14th 1972 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
July 14th 1972 Plate ump & catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump & Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, KC Royals win 1-0
July 14th 1973 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
July 14th 1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers
July 14th 1974 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
July 14th 1974 Bundy victims Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA
July 14th 1974 Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
July 14th 1975 EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
July 14th 1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC
July 14th 1976 USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
July 14th 1977 US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
July 14th 1977 North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
July 14th 1978 Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
July 14th 1978 Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
July 14th 1978 Allen Ginsburg completes “Plutonian Ode,” blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell’s nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
July 14th 1979 USSR performs nuclear Test
July 14th 1981 Kevin Wade’s “Key Exchange,” premieres in London
July 14th 1983 Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
July 14th 1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
July 14th 1984 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
July 14th 1985 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
July 14th 1985 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
July 14th 1985 40th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
July 14th 1986 Shalamar’s Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
July 14th 1986 Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
July 14th 1986 Paul McCartney releases “Press”
July 14th 1986 NASA’s plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
July 14th 1986 Motley Cre’s Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
July 14th 1986 41st US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes
July 14th 1986 2nd govt of Lubbers sworn in
July 14th 1986 10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
July 14th 1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
July 14th 1987 Steve Miller’s star is unveiled on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
July 14th 1987 Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson
July 14th 1987 Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
July 14th 1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
July 14th 1987 All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)
July 14th 1987 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad
July 14th 1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
July 14th 1988 Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place
July 14th 1988 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
July 14th 1989 16th James Bond movies “License to Kill” premieres
July 14th 1990 ”Howard Stern’s Summer Show” premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
July 14th 1990 Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America’s Junior Miss
July 14th 1991 Failed military coup in Mali
July 14th 1991 46th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon
July 14th 1992 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD
July 14th 1992 Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery
July 14th 1992 All star MVP: Ken Griffey Jr (Seattle Mariners)
July 14th 1993 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow & NY
July 14th 1994 Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
July 14th 1995 LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
July 14th 1995 Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Marlins
July 14th 1996 ”How To Succeed in Business…” closes at R Rodgers NYC after 548 perf
July 14th 1996 ”Thousand Clowns” opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 32 performances
July 14th 1996 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd
July 14th 1996 Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
July 14th 1996 NY Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves
July 14th 1996 NY Yanks sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time
July 14th 1997 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 & wounds 40