14 Julie

The **14t o Julie** is the 195t day o the year (196t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 170 days ti come.

## Events

* 1789 - Stormin o the Bastille - Stairt o the French Revolution.
* 1790 - The Festival o the Federation is held in Fraunce, mairkin a year syne the Stormin o the Bastille.
* 1798 - La Marseillaise becomes the naitional anthem o Fraunce.
* 1865 - Edward Whymper successfully climbs the Matterhorn in Swisserland.
* 1880 - This date is observed as the naitional day o Fraunce for the first time.
* 1958 - Iraq becomes a republic.
* 1965 - NASA's Mariner 4 flies bi Maurs.
* 1966 - Gwynfor Evans becomes the first Plaid Cymru (Pairty o Wales) politeecian tae be electit tae the UK Hoose o Commons.
* 1976 - Canadae abandons caipital punishment.
* 2002 - Attemptit assassination o Jacques Chirac in Paris.
* 2007 - The Gran Telescopio Canarias reflectin telescope on La Palma, Canary Islands, is opened.
* 2011 - Sooth Sudan becomes a member o the Unitit Naitions.
* 2015 - The New Horizons space probe flies by the dwarf planet Pluto.
* 2016 - 2016 Nice attack: A lorry is driven through a crowd celebratin Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, Fraunce, killin 84 fowk.
* 2018 - Belgium achieves its best-ever FIFA Warld Cup finish, wi a third-place play-off 2-0 win ower Ingland, wha achieved thair aen jynt-seicont-best result in the toornament.
* 2018 - Tennis: Angelique Kerber becomes the first German syne Steffi Graf in 1996 tae win the weemen's singles teetle at the Wimbledon Championships.
* 2019 - Tennis: Novak Djokovic wins a five-set epic agin Roger Federer tae win his fift Wimbledon teetle.
* 2019 - Ingland wins the Men's Cricket Warld Cup for the first time, defeatin New Zealand in a close feenal.

## Births

* 1454 - Poliziano, Italian poet (d. 1494)
* 1573 - Bonaventure Hepburn, Scots linguist, lexicografer, philologist an biblical commenator (d. 1621)
* 1602 - Cardinal Mazarin, Italian-French politeecian (d. 1661)
* 1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke o Tuscany (d. 1670)
* 1743 - Gavrila Derzhavin, Roushie poet (d. 1816)
* 1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austrick penter (d. 1918)
* 1887 - Joe Dodds, Scots fitbawer (d. 1965)
* 1912 - Woody Guthrie, American sangster-sangwriter an muisicker (d. 1967)
* 1913 - Gerald Ford, 38t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 2006)
* 1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Swadish film director (d. 2007)
* 1934 - Ian Crawford, Scots fitbawer (d. 2007)
* 1935 - Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist
* 1937 - Duncan MacKay, Scots fitbawer (d. 2019)
* 1942 - Javier Solana, Spaingie politeecian
* 1957 - Arthur Albiston, Scots fitbawer
* 1960 - Jane Lynch, American actress
* 1963 - John Colquhoun, Scots fitbawer
* 1966 - Owen Coyle, Scots fitbaa manager
* 1971 - Howard Webb, Inglis fitbaa referee
* 1974 - David Mitchell, Inglis comedian, actor an presenter
* 1977 - Victoria, Croun Princess o Swaden
* 1983 - Igor Andreev, Roushie tennis player
* 1998 - Daniel Harvie, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1223 - Keeng Philip II o Fraunce (b. 1165)
* 1816 - Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (b. 1750)
* 1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859)
* 1904 - Paul Kruger, Sooth African Boer politeecian (b. 1824)
* 1939 - Alphonse Mucha, Bohemie airtist (b. 1860)
* 1940 - William Maxwell, Scots fitbawer an cricketer (b. 1876)
* 1954 - Jacinto Benavente, Spaingie writer (b. 1866)
* 1958 - Faisal II o Iraq (b. 1935)
* 2017 - Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathemateecian (b. 1977)

## Halidays

* Bastille Day - Naitional Day o Fraunce
* Republic Day - Iraq