The document lists significant historical events that occurred on July 14th across various years, highlighting moments such as the fall of the Bastille in 1789, the founding of Mission San Antonio de Padua in California, and the first patent for a liquid-fueled rocket design granted to Robert Goddard in 1914. Additionally, it includes notable birthdays, like that of Gerald Ford (1913), Ingmar Bergman (1918), and William Hanna (1910). The timeline captures a broad range of social, political, and cultural developments throughout history.

1. Today in History for 14th July 2015
Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 193
1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II
1420 - Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia
1535 - Emperor Charles V conquers Tunis
1581 - English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
1682 - Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
1698 - The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the
Isthmus of Panama.
1714 - Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
1769 - The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of
Monterey (now Monterey, California).
1771 - Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
1789 - Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
1791 - The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of
Birmingham, England.
1798 - 1st direct US federal tax on states-on dwellings, land slaves
1798 - US Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous malicious" writing against government
1822 - Slave revolt in South Carolina under Denmark Vesey/Peter Poyas
1823 - Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
1832 - Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1845 - 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
1845 - Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes kills many
1850 - 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1853 - 1st US World's fair opens at New York's Crystal Palace

2. 1853 - Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
14th US President Franklin Pierce
1853 - Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)
1853 - New Zealand holds its first general election
1861 - Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA with 40,000 troops
1861 - Naval Engagement at Wilmington NC - USS Daylight establishes blockade
1863 - Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek)
1863 - Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
1864 - Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana
1865 - Whymper, Hudson, Croz, Douglas Hadow 1st to climb Matterhorn
1868 - Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure
1870 - The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000
a year
1877 - General strike brings US railroad to a stand still
1891 - John T Smith patents corkboard
1902 - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.

3. First Lady of the United States Mary Todd Lincoln
1909 - Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
1911 - 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
1912 - Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
1914 - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Robert Goddard)
1914 - NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
1916 - 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record)
1916 - St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston
1918 - Dutch government reclaims South seas
1921 - Nicola Sacco Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's
paymaster
1927 - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1932 - Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1933 - Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
1933 - NSDAP (Nazis) becomes only political party in Germany
Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard

4. 1933 - Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 9-44, at Leyton
1934 - 116°F (47°C), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
1934 - NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1934 - Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
1934 - Ruth hits 700th career home run
1936 - 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government
1936 - 116°F (47°C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
1938 - Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifesto
1940 - Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
1940 - Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
1941 - 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1941 - Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon Syria)
1941 - Jam rationed in Holland
1942 - 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
1942 - Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
1944 - Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1944 - US assault on Coutances Cotentin
1945 - Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
1946 - Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby Child Care" published

5. 1946 - Mass murder of Jews in Kielce, Poland
1946 - Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8
RBIs
1948 - Israel bombs Cairo
1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
1950 - RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1951 - "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances
1951 - "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 perfs
Baseball Player Ted Williams
1951 - 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 - Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1951 - George Washington Carver monument unveiled
1952 - SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1953 - 1st US National monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver
1953 - 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1953 - Communist offensive in Korea
1954 - 117°F (47°C), East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1954 - 118°F (48°C), Warsaw Union, Missouri (state record)
1955 - 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascot racecourse, England
1956 - Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1957 - Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270

6. 1958 - General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq overthrowing the monarchy
1958 - Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th last encyclical Meminisse juvat
1959 - USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Mass
1960 - Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1960 - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring
300
1961 - Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
1961 - Finland's Miettunen government forms
Pope John XXIII
1961 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
1962 - Borehole for Mont Blanc tunnel finished
1962 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
1964 - Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
1964 - Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter
1965 - Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
1965 - Israeli/Jordanian border fights
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 212

7. 1454 - Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d.
1494)
1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italy, painter
(Recollets)
1602 - Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal,
French 1st Minister (1642-61)
1608 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English
royalist soldier (d. 1657)
1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
1671 - Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
1676 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
1696 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
1707 - Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer
1721 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
1756 - Thomas Rowlandson, English painter/cartoonist/etcher
1762 - Joseph Lakanal, Serres Ariège, French Politician and Educator
1785 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)
1794 - John G Lockhart, [Scorpion], biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott)
1801 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
1804 - Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general
1816 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
1818 - Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1861)
1830 - Richard Henry Jackson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 - William Dwight, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1888)

8. 1834 - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist (Whistler's Mother)
1839 - Edward Sydney Smith, composer
1854 - Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer
1855 - Richard Samuel Hughes, composer
1857 - Maytag, inventor (washing machine)
1859 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
1862 - Florence Bascom, US, 1st American woman PhD
1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austria, Art Nouveau painter
1865 - Annie Jones, Virginia, bearded lady
Archaelogist Gertrude Bell (1868)
1868 - Gertrude Bell, Durham, British archaeologist (Desert The Sown), (d. 1926)
1869 - Owen Wister, US, novelist (Virginian)
1874 - 'Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914)
1874 - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium)
1880 - Donald Meek, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach)
1883 - Alexandru Zirra, composer
1884 - Charles Meldrum Daniels, Dayton Oh, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1904, 08)
1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
1890 - Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ/French sculptor (Destroyed City)
1891 - Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), born in London, England

9. 1893 - John G Strijdom, premier of South-Africa (1954-58)
1893 - Spencer Williams, Vidalia La, actor (Andy-Amos 'n' Andy)
1893 - Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
1895 - Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture Environment)
1896 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
1898 - Ivan Triesault, Estonia, actor (Cry of the Werewolf, Black Parachute)
1898 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1901 - George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), born in NYC, New York
1901 - Gerald Finzi, British composer (Dies natalis), born in London, England
1902 - Paul Guilfoyle, Jersey City NJ, actor/director (Curiosity Kills)
1902 - Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist
1902 - Truman J Hedding, US vice-admiral (WW II)
1903 - Irving Stone, US, author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life)
1903 - Ken Murray, comedian (Ken Murray Show, Judy Garland Show), born in NYC, New York
1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Poland, Yiddish novelist (Enemies-Nobel 1978)
1906 - Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings, composer
1906 - Tom Carvel, ice cream mogul (Carvels)
1908 - Chaim Raphael, writer
1909 - Annabella, [Suzanne G Charpentier], Paris, actress (Dinner at Ritz)
1910 - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic

10. Animator William Hanna (1910)
1910 - William Hanna, Melrose New Mexico, animator (Hanna-Barbera- Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo),
(d. 2001)
1911 - J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president (Church Peace)
1912 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, folk singer (This Land Is Your Land)
1912 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
1913 - Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)
1913 - Gerald R Ford, [Leslie King], 41st US VP (1973-74)/38th US President (R-1974-77), born in
Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2006)
1913 - Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician
1914 - Sidney George Gray, company secretary
1916 - Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (Family dictionary)
1916 - Phyllis Stedman, politician
1917 - Arthur Leavins, violinist
1917 - Douglas Edwards, Alda Oklahoma, newscaster (CBS Evening News, FYI)
38th US President Gerald Ford (1913)

11. 1918 - Arthur Laurents, playwright (West Side Story, Gypsy), born in NYC, New York
1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Uppsala Sweden, director (Cries Whispers)
1918 - Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory
1919 - Lino Ventura, Parma Italy, actor (Happy New Year, Pain in the A--)
1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
1921 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
1922 - Peter Andrew Tranchell, composer
1922 - Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1922 - Elfriede Rinkel, Nazi concentration camp guard
1923 - Dale Robertson, Harrah Ok, actor (Death Valley Days, Walter-Dynasty)
1923 - Frances Lear, Larchmont NY, Woman's magazine publisher (Lears)
1923 - Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (d. 1989)
Director, Writer Ingmar Bergman (1918)
1924 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate
1925 - Luis Antonio Escobar, composer
1926 - Harry Dean Stanton, West Irvine KY, actor (Alien, Cool Hand Luke)
1926 - Jan Krenz, composer
1927 - John William Chancellor, news anchor (NBC, VOA), born in Chicago, Illinois
1928 - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher
1928 - Nancy Olson, Milwaukee, actress (Absent-Minded Professor, Pollyanna)

12. 1928 - Ole Schmidt, composer
1928 - Pierre Olaf, Cauderan France, actor (Kraft Music Hall)
1929 - George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher
1929 - Charles Anthony [Caruso], tenor (2,928 performances at Metropolitan Opera), born in New
Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2012)
1930 - Eric Norman Stokes, composer
1930 - Polly Bergen, Knoxville Tn, actress (Rhoda-Winds of War, Baby Talk)
1931 - Donald Eugene Webb, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 7 of 7
British Prime Minister Robert Peel (1820)
1820 - British PM Robert Peel (32) weds Sir John Floyd's daughter Julia at St George's, Hanover
Square in London
1930 - 1st Filippino President Emilio Aguinaldo (61) weds second wife Maria Agoncillo (51) at
Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan
1966 - Sex symbol of the 1960s Brigitte Bardot (31) weds German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs
(33) in Las Vegas
1994 - Princess Margaret's daughter Sarah Armstrong-Jones (30) weds ex-actor and fellow artist
Daniel Chatto (37) in London, United Kingdon
1996 - "Green Bay Packer" quarterback Brett Favre (20) weds Deanna Tynes (28) at St. Agnes
Catholic Church in Green Bay, Wisconsin
2007 - Actor Jerry O'Connell (33) weds Xmen's "Mystique" Rebecca Romijn (34) at Calabasas,
California
2007 - Former "Full House" actress Jodie Sweetin (25) weds set designer Cody Herpin (30) at Little

13. Church of the West in Las Vegas
Famous Divorces
Divorces 1 - 1 of 1
Actor Michael Biehn (1987)
1987 - Actor Michael Biehn (30) divorces actress Carlene Olson (32) after 7 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 109
664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria
1223 - King Philip II of France (1180-1223) dies at 57
1298 - Jacob de Voragine, Italian bishop/writer (Golden Legend), dies
1575 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Ital soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64
1671 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
1711 - Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange/(Nassau-Dietz), drowns at 23
1723 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1744 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28
1762 - Cornelis Hop, Amsterdams regent/diplomat, dies at 77
1766 - Franti?ek Maxmilián Ka?ka, Czech architect (b. 1674)

14. 1770 - David 't Kindt, Flemish architect (Mammelokker, Ghent), dies at 71
1774 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
1779 - George Ross, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 49
1780 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
1788 - Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer, dies at 60
1789 - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
1789 - Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the
Bastille (b.1740)
1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1793 - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44
1803 - Esteban Salas y Castro, composer, dies
1812 - Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1816 - Francisco de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter, dies at 66
1817 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1830 - Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime, dies at 73
1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French
Revolution (b. 1763)
1850 - August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
1873 - Ferdinand David, Dutch violinist/composer, dies at 63
1876 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid (1881)

15. 1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?)
1895 - Alexander Ewing, composer, dies at 65
1902 - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58
1904 - President Paul Kruger, the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South
African or Second Boer War (1899-1902), heart failure at 78
1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
1908 - William Mason, composer, dies at 79
1917 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
1923 - Louis Ganne, composer, dies at 61
1925 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901)
1930 - W H Ashley, cricketer (Test South Africa, 7 wkts), dies
1938 - Robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa in 1895-96 series), dies
1939 - Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860)
1940 - Bill Howell, cricketer (18 Tests for Aust 1898-1905), dies
1942 - Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Neth/French/Belgian painter's model, dies
1943 - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor, dies at 74%
1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's CPI chairman, assassinated
1949 - Frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for S Afr), dies
1950 - ?pirana Ngata, a prominent Maori New Zealand politician and lawyer, dies at 76
1951 - Sammy Jones, cricketer (last survivor of the 1882 Oval Test), dies
1954 - Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, dies at 87
1954 - Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
1956 - Jaroslav Ridky, composer, dies at 58
1958 - Abdoel Illah, crown prince of Iraq, murdered
1958 - Emil Barth, writer, dies at 58
1958 - Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad

16. 1958 - Franciscus J Feron, vicar-general of Roermond, dies at 62
1958 - Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, murdered
1959 - Grock, [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown/circus director, dies at 79
1965 - Adlai Stevenson, US amb to UN/pres candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies
1966 - Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
1967 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
1968 - Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76
1968 - Westbrook Van Voorhis, announcer (March of Time), dies at 64
1968 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1970 - Preston S Foster, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), dies at 69
1973 - Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds), killed by a car
1974 - Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77
1974 - Carl Spaatz, American World War II general and 1st Chief of Staff of the United States Air
Force, dies at 83
1975 - Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer, dies at 77
1975 - Madan Mohan, Hindi Film's Melodious Music director (b. 1924)
1979 - George De Witt, TV host (Name that Tune), dies at 56
1982 - George Amadee Tremblay, composer, dies at 71
1983 - Jack MacBryan, cricketer (Test for England 1924), dies
1984 - Al Schacht, [Clown prince of baseball], baseball player, dies at 91
1984 - Kenny Delmar, comedian (School House), dies at 74
1984 - Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (I'll Be Around), dies at 43
1984 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
1986 - Raymond Loewy, US industrial designer, dies at 92
1989 - Frank Bell, British educator (b. 1916)
1990 - Dallas Alinder, dies

17. 1990 - Philip Leacock, dies of collapsed lungs at 73
1991 - Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet, dies
1993 - Robert Strong
1994 - Patrick Crommelynck, Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1994 - Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies
1994 - Taeko Kuwata, Japanese/Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1995 - Michael Naylor, insurance broker, dies at 59
1996 - Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist, dies at 82
1996 - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist, dies at 91
1996 - Kim Besly, activist, dies at 69
1996 - Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver (b. 1964)
1998 - Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (b. 1909)
2000 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2000 - René Ríos Boettiger, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
2000 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2003 - Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist (b. 1926)
2003 - François-Albert Angers, French Canadian economist (b. 1909)
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