It happened one 14 July

1789 : Bastille stromed


On July 14, 1789, a crowd of revolutionary Parisians decided to storm the Bastille, a state prison that locked up political prisoners on the orders of the king and without trial. The military governor of the prison fired on the crowd but the Bastille was taken and destroyed to the last stone to make a clean sweep of the old regime and demolish this symbol of the arbitrariness of the monarchy.

1881 : Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid


On July 14, 1881, the sheriff of Lincoln County, Pat Garrett, killed the outlaw William Henry McCarty, known as Billy the Kid, near Fort Sumner in New Mexico. Pat Garrett had already arrested Billy the Kid three months earlier but McCarty had escaped.

1958 : Coup in Iraq


On July 14, 1958, the Iraqi army, under the command of Abd al-Karim Qasim and called to defend the King Hussein of Jordan in the conflict with Lebanon, headed in fact to Baghdad to overthrow the monarchy of King Faisal II. The king and his family were executed and the Republic was established.

1995 : MP3 format


On July 14, 1995, a technology for storing audio files of high quality with maximum compression was given the name of MP3 format. These files, recognized by their extension .mp3, allow storage of a large number of data at a very fast speed. Associated with the huge increase in the speed of download on internet, this format revolutionized the music world .

Latest news : 14 July

French National Day
July 14 is the National Day of the French Republic which commemorate the Federation Day of July 14, 1790, a year after the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution. The Bastille was a prison in which were locked, among others, political prisoners and which was the symbol of arbitrary royal power.

Quote of the day : 14 July

Gerald R. Ford, 38ème Président des Etats Unis
If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

Birthdays : 14 July

Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (1816)
Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and explorer (1868)
Irving Stone, American writer (1903)
Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (1913)
Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director (1918)
Lino Ventura, French actor (1919)
Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Laureate (1921)
Nancy Olson, American actress (1928)
Yoshirō Mori, Japanese politician (1937)
Javier Solana, Spanish politician (1942)
Navin Ramgoolam, Mauritian politician (1947)
Tommy Mottola, American music executive (1949)
Frédérique Hoschedé (Dorothée), French TV presenter and singer (1953)
Joe Keenan, American screenwriter (Cheers, Frasier, Desperate Housewives) (1958)
Matthew Fox, American actor (1966)
Valérie Pécresse, French politician (1967)
Candela Peña, Spanish actress (1973)
Paul Methric, American rapper (1973)
Jaime Luis Gómez (Taboo) , American rapper (The Black Eyed Peas) (1975)
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden (1977)
Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Brazilian footballer (1984)
Adam Johnson, English footballer (1987)

They left us one 14 July

Germaine de Staël, Swiss writer (1817)
Billy the Kid, American frontier outlaw (1881)
Paul Kruger, South African politician (1904)
Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer and choreographer (1910)
Julie Manet, French painter (1966)
Léo Ferré, French singer (1993)
Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (1998)
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