1789, 14th July: In Paris, citizens attacked the Bastille, a symbol of French state repression, and released seven prisoners. This event was the culmination of the French Revolution.
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14 July: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 14 July.
Year 1867
Alfred Nobel successfully tested dynamite.
Year 1933
All except the Nazi Party were outlawed in Germany.
Year 1933
Forced sterilization program of German citizens by the Nazi Party.
Year 1958
Uprising against the monarchy in Iraq. Abd al-Karim Qasim in power.
Year 1976
Abolition of capital punishment in Canada.
Year 2003
Hurricane Claudette gathers strength over the Gulf of Mexico and heads for the Texas coast, killing two people.
Year 2013
The dedication of statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Year 2015
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
Year 2016
A terrorist vehicular attack in Nice, France kills 86 civilians and injures over 400 others.
Born 1794
Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar III, the twenty-second maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore.
Born 1856
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, an Indian social reformer, educationist, and thinker.
Born 1893
Garimella Satyanarayana, an Indian poet, and freedom fighter.
Born 1920
Shankarrao Chavan, an Indian politician.
Born 1927
N. N. Kakkad, an Indian poet of the Malayalam language.
Born 1954
R. Sarathkumar, an Indian film actor, politician, and journalist.
Born 1954
Tanikella Bharani, an Indian actor, screenwriter, poet, playwright, and director.
Died 1660
Baji Prabhu Deshpande, a commander of Maratha king Shivaji Maharaj.
Died 1904
Paul Kruger, a South African politician.
Died 1934
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and won a Newbery Medal.
Died 1936
Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar (b. 1890)
Died 1963
Sivananda Saraswati, a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta.
Died 1975
Madan Mohan, an Indian music director.
Died 1998
Richard James and Maurice James McDonald, American brothers and entrepreneurs who founded the McDonald’s restaurant.
Died 2003
Rajju Bhaiya, the fourth Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).