On 14th July 1789
A mob advanced on the Bastille in Paris, demanding the arms and munitions stored there, but, when the guards resisted, the crowd captured the prison, an act that symbolized the end of the ancien régime.
On 14th July 1862
Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter was born.
On 14th July 1881
American gunfighter Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett
On 14th July 1912
Woody Guthrie, American singer and songwriter was Born on July 14, 1912 at Okemah, Oklahoma
On 14th July 1921
In a still-controversial decision, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, immigrant Italian anarchists, were found guilty of the murder of two men in Massachusetts.
On 14th July 1960
British ethologist Jane Goodall first arrived at what became Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania; there she conducted her groundbreaking research on chimpanzees.
On 14th July 1968
American baseball great Hank Aaron hit his 500th career home run.
On 14th July 1969
Easy Rider was released in U.S. theatres, becoming a classic of the counterculture and propelling Jack Nicholson to stardom.
On 14th July 2013
The world’s last telegram was sent as India’s state-run telecommunications company ended its telegraph service.
On 14th July 2017
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani—the first woman and first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal, cited for “her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”—died at age 40.
