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July 14 – A Day as Today. Find out what happened a day like today, July 14: Who was born? Who died? What is celebrated? Ephemeris of July 14th in Dorian’s Secrets: The Eternal Youth Magazine!

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Ephemeris of July 14:

Events.
Births.
Deaths.
Celebrations.
Catholic Santoral.
Zodiac Sign.

In the Gregorian Calendar, July 14 is the 195th
(hundredth – ninety fifth) day of the year.

There are 170 days left until the end of 2021!

Quote of the Day…

Happiness does not exist in life. There are only happy moments.

— Jacinto Benavente
Spanish playwright (died July 14, 1954)

Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

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July 14 – A Day as Today – Events

1223: in France, Luis VIII assumes like king after the death of his father, Felipe II.
1520: in Mexico, the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés and his men defeat the Aztecs at the battle of Otumba.
1769: the expedition commanded by Gaspar de Portolà establishes a base in California at the port of Monterey.
1771: in California, the Franciscan friars Junípero Serra and Buenaventura Sitjar found the Mission of San Antonio de Padua.
1789: in Paris (France) the Taking of the Bastille takes place, which marked the end of the Old Regime and the beginning of the French Revolution.
1790: French Revolution: the citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation on the Feast of the Federation.
1808: in Medina de Rioseco (Spain) ―in the framework of the Spanish War of Independence―, the French army defeats the Spanish in the battle of Moclín, or Medina de Rioseco.
1811: in Venezuela, General Francisco de Miranda flies the tricolor flag for the first time as the official flag of the First Republic of Venezuela.
1881: Billy the Kid is captured and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
1892: in Santiago (Chile), President Jorge Montt and the Minister of Public Instruction, Joaquín Rodríguez Rosas, issue Supreme Decree No. 1554, which created the Liceo de Aplicacion.
1894: in the Basque Country the ikurriña is hoisted in the first batzoki (headquarters) of EAJ / PNV.
1900: in China, the army of the Alliance of the Eight Nations captures Tientsin during the Uprising of the Boxers.
1902: in Machu Picchu (Peru), the Cuzco landowner Agustín Lizárraga writes on a wall «A. Lizárraga, July 14, 1902 ‘, which serves as proof that the American Hiram Bingham did not discover the citadel (July 24, 1911). Already in the middle of the 19th century, the citadel had begun to be looted by the logging businessman August Berns.
1906: in the Philippines (invaded by the United States), President Macario Sakay (35) and his guerrillas surrender, accepting the amnesty promised by the American “governor”. They will be hanged the following year.
1915: Husayn-McMahon correspondence began between Husayn ibn Ali (Sherif of Mecca) and British officer Henry McMahon on the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire.
1916: start of the Battle of Delville Wood during the action of the Battle of the Somme, which would last until September 3, 1916.
1933: In Germany, the Nazi Party officially becomes the only legal party in Germany, although the main German political parties had already dissolved by giving in to Nazi pressure.
1948: in Rome (Italy), Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
1957: in Egypt, Rawya Ateya is sworn in as a deputy of the National Assembly; she is the first female parliamentarian in the entire Arab world.
1958: in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the new leader of the nation (Revolution in Iraq).
1958: in the Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), the United States detonates the atomic bomb Scaevola (a safety test that does not produce any explosion).
1960: Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve (Tanzania) to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
1961: in the rural area of the Cuban municipality of Trinidad (Sancti Spíritus province), a group of Cuban “bandits” led by the terrorist Medardo León – in the framework of the terrorist attacks organized by the US CIA – assassinate the peasant Rafael Toledo .two
1969: the Soccer War between Honduras and El Salvador begins.
1970: in Managua (Nicaragua), President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Foreign Minister Lorenzo Guerrero Gutiérrez and United States Ambassador Turner B. Shelton sign the abrogation of the Chamorro-Bryan Treaty, signed in 1914, in the National Palace (current Palace of culture).
1976: capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
1979: In the United States, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance issues the Cyrus Vanc Note to force the resignation of Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was facing the popular Sandinista insurrection.
1979: in the Place de la Concorde in Paris (France) the musician Jean Michel Jarre develops an audiovisual concert bringing together more than a million people in the open air on the occasion of the success of his albums Oxygène and Equinoxe, initiating the era of mega-concerts .
1983: Nintendo releases the Arcade video game, Mario Bros.
1992: in Gatlinburg (Tennessee) the Museum of Ripley catches fire.
1992: North Ossetia declares independence from Russia.
1995: In the United States, MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) introduces the MP3 format.
1998: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Laurent Kabila dismisses his commander-in-chief, James Kabare from Rwanda, a pivotal incident during the Second Congo War.
1999: in London, an agreement is signed between Argentina and the United Kingdom that allows Argentine access to the Falkland Islands.
2002: in France, a certain Maxime Brunerie attacks President Jacques Chirac.
2008: construction of the Tokyo Sky Tree tower begins in Japan.
2010: in the town of Tirúa (Chile) there is a strong aftershock of the 2010 Chile earthquake, of magnitude 6.6 on the Richter scale; it is perceived throughout the Araucanía and Biobío region.
2011: in Villa Martelli (Greater Buenos Aires), President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner inaugurates the Tecnópolis mega-show, which will last until August 22.
2016: in the city of Nice (France), a terrorist at the wheel of a truck runs over a crowd of people who were celebrating the French National Holiday. 84 dead and 50 critically wounded (Attack in Nice).
2021: In Argentina, 100,000 are exceeded by COVID-19.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

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July 14 – A Day as Today – Births

926: Murakami Tennō, Japanese emperor (d. 967).
1448: Philip of the Palatinate, German nobleman (d. 1508).
1454: Angelo Poliziano, Italian poet (d. 1494).
1484: Octavian de Medici, Italian nobleman (d. 1546).
1575: Augustus of Anhalt-Plötzkau, German prince of the House of Ascania (d. 1653).
1602: Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661).
1610: Ferdinand II de Medici, Italian aristocrat (d. 1670).
1623: Hedwig Sophia of Brandenburg, German nobleman (d. 1683).
1634: Pasquier Quesnel, French theologian (d. 1719).
1638: Antonio Franchi, Italian painter (d. 1709).
1658: Camillo Rusconi, Italian sculptor (d. 1728).
1671: Jacques d’Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732).
1717: Ventura Rodríguez, Spanish architect (d. 1785).
1733: Joaquín Fernando Garay, Spanish biologist (d. 1810).
1743: Gavrila Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816).
1743 – William Paley, British philosopher and theologian (d. 1805).
1747: Juan Escóiquiz, writer, tutor and Spanish canon (d. 1820).
1748: Pedro García de la Huerta, priest and historian of Spanish art (d. 1799).
1771: Karl Asmund Rudolphi, German botanist and zoologist of Swedish origin (d. 1832).
1776: Pierre Daumesnil, French military man (d. 1832).
1782: Maximilian of Austria-Este, Archduke of Austria (d. 1863).
1785: Mordecai M. Noah, American writer and journalist (d. 1851).
1785: Stéphanie de Virieu, sculpture and French painter (d. 1873).
1793: George Green, British mathematician (d. 1841).
1800: Jean-Baptiste Dumas, French chemist, politician and professor. (f. 1884).
1801: Johannes Peter Müller, German psychologist (d. 1858).
1804 – Ludwig von Benedek, Austrian general (d. 1881).
1806: Fermín Toro, Venezuelan politician and writer (d. 1865).
1807: Ventura de la Vega, Spanish writer (d. 1865).
1808: Heinrich Ahrens, German philosopher, jurist and politician (d. 1874).
1812: Buenaventura Báez, Dominican politician and military man (d. 1884).
1815: Moritz Hornes, Austrian paleontologist. (f. 1868).
1816: Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882).
1825: Henry VII of Reuss-Köstritz, German diplomat. (f. 1906).
1830: Henry Bird, British chess player (d. 1908).
1831: Luis González Balcarce, Argentine civil servant (d. 1904).
1832: Lucien Quélet, French mycologist, bryologist and naturalist (d. 1899).
1842: Christian Lundeberg, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1911).
1847: Gustavo Eberlein, German writer, painter and sculptor (d. 1926).
1860: Owen Wister, American writer (d. 1938).
1862: Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (d. 1918).
1862: Florence Bascom, American geologist (d. 1945).
1868: Gertrude Bell, British writer (d. 1926).
1868: Joaquín Llambías, Argentine doctor (d. 1931).
1874: Abbas II Hilmi, Egyptian emperor (d. 1944).
1878: Donald Meek, British actor (d. 1946).
1882: Teddy Billington, American cyclist (d. 1966).
1884: Emilio Cecchi, Italian writer (d. 1966).
1884: Adalbert of Prussia, Prince of Prussia (d. 1948).
1885: Sisavang Vong, Laotian king (d. 1959).
1888: Kakutsa Cholokashvili, Georgian military man (d. 1930).
1888: Odile Defraye, Belgian cyclist (d. 1965).
1888: Jacques de Lacretelle, French writer (d. 1985).
1888: Enrique de Rosas, Argentine actor (d. 1948).
1888: Ton Satomi, Japanese writer (d. 1983).
1888: Scipio Slataper, Italian writer (d. 1915).
1889: Ante Pavelić, Croatian politician (d. 1959).
1889: Annie Speirs, British swimmer (d. 1926).
1890: Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor (d. 1967).
1891: Francisco Javier Sánchez Cantón, Spanish art historian (d. 1971).
1893: Spencer Williams, American actor and filmmaker (d. 1969).
1894: Dave Fleischer, American animator, filmmaker and producer (d. 1979).
1896: Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (d. 1936).
1901: Gerald Finzi, British composer (d. 1956).
1903: Irving Stone, American writer (d. 1989).
1907: Annabella, French actress (f. 1996).
1910: Lucas Demare, Argentine filmmaker (d. 1981).
1910: William Hanna, American animator, filmmaker and producer (d. 2001).
1911: Terry-Thomas, British actor (d. 1990).
1911: Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, American nuclear physicist of German Jewish origin (d. 1998).
1912: Northrop Frye, Canadian literary and theologian (d. 1991).
1912: Woody Guthrie, American musician (d. 1967).
1913: Gerald Ford, 38th US President from 1974 to 1977 (d. 2006).
1916: Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (d. 1991).
1916: Julio Porter, Argentine screenwriter and filmmaker (d. 1979).
1918: Ingmar Bergman, Swedish filmmaker (d. 2007).
1919: Lino Ventura, Italian actor (d. 1987).
1921:
- Geoffrey Wilkinson, British chemist, 1973 Nobel Prize Winner (d. 1996).
- Sixto Durán-Ballén, politician and president of Ecuador (d. 2016)
1922: Julio Cozzi, Argentine soccer player (d. 2011).
1922: Mario Recordón, Chilean athlete (f. 1994).
1923: Dale Robertson, American actor (d. 2013).
1923: Robert Zildjian, American businessman (d. 2013).
1924: James Whyte Black, British physician and pharmacologist, 1988 Nobel Prize Winner (d. 2010).
1925: María Asunción Català Poch, Spanish mathematician and astronomer (d. 2009).
1926: Harry Dean Stanton, American actor.
1928: Nancy Olson, American actress.
1929: Julio de Grazia, Argentine actor (d. 1989).
1931: Luis Pércovich, Peruvian pharmaceutical chemist and politician (b. 2017).
1931: Helga Liné, German actress settled in Spain.
1933: Robert Bourassa, Canadian politician and economist (b. 1996).
1935: Eiichi Negishi, Japanese chemist, 2012 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry.
1936: Héctor Ulloa, Colombian actor (d. 2018).
1937: Yoshirō Mori, Japanese Prime Minister.
1938: James Christy, American astronomer.
1938 – Jerry Rubin, American social activist (b.1994).
1938: Richard Rust, American actor (d. 1994).
1939: Peter Duryea, American actor (d. 2013).
1939: Karel Gott, Czech singer (f. 2019).
1939: Sid Haig, American actor.
1942: Javier Solana, Spanish politician.
1943: Christopher Priest, British novelist.
1945: Jim Gordon, American musician.
1946: Vincent Pastore, American actor.
1947: Navinchandra Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of the Mauritius Islands.
1948: Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, South African monarch, king of the Zulus between 1968 and 2021 (d. 2021).
1948: Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Catholic religious and Ethiopian cardinal.
1949: Tommy Mottola, American music producer.
1952: Franklin Graham, American evangelical preacher and writer.
1953: Bebe Buell, American model and singer.
1955: L. Brent Bozell III, American writer and activist.
1957: Andréi Belianinov, Russian businessman and politician.
1958: Miguel Ángel Cortés, Spanish politician.
1960: Kyle Gass, American actor, guitarist and singer-songwriter, of the band Tenacious D.
1960: Angelique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter.
1960: Jane Lynch, American actress.
1961: Jackie Earle Haley, American actor.
1966: Owen Coyle, British footballer and coach.
1966: Tanya Donelly, American songwriter and guitarist, of the bands Belly and The Breeders.
1966: Matthew Fox, American actor.
1966: Ellen Reid, Canadian musician, of the band Crash Test Dummies.
1966: Brian Selznick, American illustrator.
1966: Ana María Cuervo, Spanish cell biologist
1967: Karsten Braasch, German tennis player.
1967: Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler.
1967: Robin Ventura, American baseball player.
1969: Kazushi Sakuraba, Japanese fighter.
1971: Antonio Carlos Ortega, Spanish handball player.
1971: Mark LoMonaco, American professional wrestler.
1971: Nick McCabe, British guitarist, of the bands The Verve and The Black Ships.
1971: Joey Styles, American commentator.
1971: Howard Webb, British referee.
1972: Deborah Mailman, Australian actress.
1973: Candela Peña, Spanish actress.
1974: Erick Dampier, American basketball player.
1974: Alberto Hevia, Spanish rally driver.
1974: David Mitchell, British comedian and actor.
1975: Taboo, American rapper, of the band Black Eyed Peas.
1976: Andrés Ospina, writer and producer of Colombian radio.
1976: Diego Rivarola, Argentine-Chilean soccer player.
1976: Kirsten Sheridan, Irish filmmaker.
1977: Mototsugu Shimizu, Japanese fighter.
1977: Norelys Rodríguez, Venezuelan actress, model, philanthropist, graphic designer and entertainer
1977: Victoria of Sweden, Swedish aristocrat.
1977: Adil Ramzi, Moroccan footballer.
1977: Miguel Cobas, Spanish footballer.
1978: Mattias Ekström, Swedish motorsport driver.
1978: Kristy Wright, Australian actress.
1979: Bernie Castro, Dominican baseball player.
1979: Ariel Garcé, Argentine soccer player.
1979: José Moratón, Spanish footballer.
1979: Scott Porter, American actor and singer.
1980: Giuseppe Vives, Italian footballer.
1982: Andrés Borghi, Argentine director and screenwriter, creator of the video game “The Black Heart”.
1983: Igor Andréiev, Russian tennis player.
1983: Kareem McLean Powell, Costa Rican soccer player.
1983: Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player.
1984: Adriana Abenia, Spanish television presenter, model and actress.
1984: Renaldo Balkman, American basketball player.
1984: Alessandro Boccolini, Italian footballer.
1984: Mounir El Hamdaoui, Moroccan footballer.
1984: Samir Handanovič, Slovenian footballer.
1984: Nilmar, Brazilian soccer player.
1984: Fleur Saville, New Zealand actress.
1985: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, British actress and screenwriter.
1986: Alexander Gerndt, Swedish footballer.
1986: Dan Smith, British singer.
1986: SpongeBob, animated character.
1987: Sara Canning, Canadian actress.
1987: Adam Johnson, British footballer.
1987: Dan Reynolds, American singer.
1987: Cameron Russell, American model.
1988: Conor McGregor, Irish MMA fighter.
1988: Luis Troche, Paraguayan actor.
1989: Sean Flynn, American actor.
1990: Andrea Seculin, Italian footballer.
1991: Maksim Kanúnnikov, Russian footballer.
1992: Brytiago, Puerto Rican singer.
1993: Rubén García, Spanish footballer.
1995: Federico Mattiello, Italian footballer.
1997: Cengiz Ünder, Turkish footballer.
1998: Romain Faivre, French footballer.
2000: Maia Reficco, American actress and singer.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

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July 14 – A Day as Today – Deaths

664: Adeodatus of Canterbury, English religious (b. About 610).
664: Earcombert of Kent, King of Kent from 640 to his death (b.?).
937: Arnulf of Bavaria, Bavarian aristocrat (b.890).
982: Henry I, Bishop of Augsburg.
1223: Philip II, French King (b. 1165).
1610: Francisco Solano, religious and Spanish saint (b. 1549).
1614: Camilo de Lellis, Italian religious and saint (b. 1550).
1704: Sofia Alekséyevna Románova, Russian regent (b. 1657).
1742 – Richard Bentley, British philologist, Hellenist and chronologist (b.1662).
1780: Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713).
1789: Jacques de Flesselles, provost of the merchants of Paris (b. 1721).
1789: Bernard-René Jordan de Launay, French governor of the Bastille (b. 1740).
1790: Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian generalissimo (b. 1717).
1800: Lorenzo Mascheroni, Italian mathematician (b. 1750).
1803: Esteban Salas, Cuban priest and composer of religious music (b. 1725).
1812: Christian Gottlob Heyne, German researcher and archaeologist (b. 1729).
1816: Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan hero (b. 1750).
1817: Madame de Staël, Swiss writer (b. 1766).
1824: Agustín de Betancourt, Spanish engineer (b. 1758).
1827: Augustin Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788).
1879: Thomas Maclear, South African astronomer of Irish origin (b. 1794).
1881: Billy the Kid, American gunman (b.1859).
1904: Paul Kruger, South African politician (b.1824).
1907 – William Henry Perkin, British chemist (b.1838).
1908 – William Mason, American composer and pianist (b.1829).
1910: Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (b.1818).
1917: Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b.1887).
1925: Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (b.1901).
1927 – Fritz Hoffmann, German athlete and gymnast (b. 1871).
1939: Alfons Mucha, Czech painter and decorative artist (b. 1860).
1954: Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922 (b. 1866).
1958: Faysal II, last Iraqi king (b.1935).
1958: ‘Abd al-Ilah, Iraqi aristocrat (b.1913).
1959: Grock, Swiss clown and circus performer (b. 1880).
1965: Matila Ghyka, Romanian diplomat, mathematician, writer, historian and aristocrat (b. 1881).
1965: Adlai Stevenson II, American politician (b.1900).
1966: Julie Manet, painter and collector of French art (b. 1878).
1967: Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880).
1968: Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician (b.1907).
1970: Preston Foster, American actor (b.1900).
1970: Luis Mariano, Spanish singer (b.1914).
1971: Ermilo Abreu Gómez, Mexican writer, historian and journalist (b. 1894).
1974: Héctor Boza, Peruvian politician (b. 1888).
1975: Héctor Pavez, Chilean singer (b.1932).
1980: Carlos López Moctezuma, Mexican actor (b.1909).
1980: Luis Politti, Argentine actor (b. 1933).
1984: Josep Coll, Spanish cartoonist (b.1923).
1986: Raymond Loewy, French industrial designer (b. 1893).
1987: Victor Zhdanov, Soviet virologist (b. 1914).
1991: Pavel Morozenko, Soviet actor (b.1939).
1993: Léo Ferré, French singer-songwriter and poet (b.1916).
1994: César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (b.1940).
1998: Richard “Dick” McDonald, American businessman (b. 1909).
2000: Pepo (René Ríos Bottegier), Chilean humorist (b.1911).
2002: Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican president (b.1906).
2002: Nelson Barrera, Mexican baseball player (b. 1957).
2003: Compay Segundo, Cuban singer and guitarist (b.1907).
2005: Guillermo Lohmann, Peruvian historian and lawyer (b. 1915).
2010: Eduardo Sánchez Junco, Spanish journalist (b.1943).
2010: Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor and musician (b.1925).
2010: Jorge Rojo Lugo, Mexican politician (b.1933).
2011: Leo Kirch, German businessman (b.1926).
2011: Antonio Prieto, Chilean actor and singer (b.1926).
2012: Marcel Curuchet, Uruguayan musician (b.1972).
2012: Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier (b.1929).
2012: Jorge Luz, Argentine actor and humorist (b.1922).
2012: Enrique Silva Cimma, Chilean politician (b.1918).
2013: Dennis Burkley, American actor (b.1945).
2014: Vilma Ferrán, Argentine actress (b.1940).
2014: Leopoldo Verona, Argentine actor (b.1931).
2016: Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer (b.1950).
2017: Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (b.1977).