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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 .

Novità del giorno : 14 Luglio

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.

Citazione del giorno : 14 Luglio

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

Compleanni : 14 Luglio

Arthur de Gobineau, Filosofo francese (1816)
Gertrude Bell, Archeologa ed esploratore inglese (1868)
Irving Stone, Scrittore americano (1903)
Gerald Ford, 38° Presidente degli Stati Uniti (1913)
Ingmar Bergman, Regista svedese (1918)
Lino Ventura, Attore francese (1919)
Geoffrey Wilkinson, Chimico inglese, premio Nobel (1921)
Nancy Olson, Attrice americana (1928)
Yoshirō Mori, Uomo politico giapponese (1937)
Javier Solana, Uomo politico spagnolo (1942)
Navin Ramgoolam, Uomo politico di Mauritius (1947)
Tommy Mottola, Produttore di musica americano (1949)
Frédérique Hoschedé (Dorothée), Presentatrice televisivo e cantante francese (1953)
Joe Keenan, Sceneggiatore americano (Cheers, Frasier, Desperate Housewives) (1958)
Matthew Fox, Attore americano (1966)
Valérie Pécresse, Politica francese (1967)
Paul Methric, Rapper americano (1973)
Candela Peña, Attrice spagnola (1973)
Jaime Luis Gómez (Taboo) , Rapper americano (The Black Eyed Peas) (1975)
Victoria, Principessa ereditaria di Svezia (1977)
Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Calciatore brasiliano (1984)
Adam Johnson, Calciatore inglese (1987)

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Germaine de Staël, Scrittrice svizzera (1817)
Billy the Kid, Fuorilegge americano (1881)
Paul Kruger, Politico sud-africano (1904)
Marius Petipa, Ballerino e coreografo francese (1910)
Julie Manet, Pittore francese (1966)
Léo Ferré, Cantante francese (1993)
Richard McDonald, Pioniere americano del fast food (1998)
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