(DOE/Joint Genome Institute) Dry rot due to the fungus Serpula lacrymans causes millions of dollars worth of damage to homes and buildings around the world. Published online July 14 in Science Express, a comparative analysis involving Serpula lacrymans, the second brown rot fungus to have its genome sequenced, sheds light on the mechanism by which Serpula breaks down cellulose and the role of brown rot fungi in the global carbon cycle.

(DOE/Joint Genome Institute) Dry rot due to the fungus Serpula lacrymans causes millions of dollars worth of damage to homes and buildings around the world. Published online July 14 in Science Express, a comparative analysis involving Serpula lacrymans, the second brown rot fungus to have its genome sequenced, sheds light on the mechanism by which Serpula breaks down cellulose and the role of brown rot fungi in the global carbon cycle.

• NASA Invites Public To "Virtual Dinner" With Final Shuttle Crew
  The public can share a virtual dinner with the final space shuttle crew on Thursday, July 14 by preparing grilled chicken, barbecue brisket, baked beans and southwestern corn at home using NASA’s recipes.

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 Blow 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 Cre’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