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Events on July 14

• 1789 Parisian citizens storm the Bastille and free the seven prisoners held inside. Commander Bernard-René Jordan de Launay and another guardsman are murdered despite assurances of safe conduct. The event is regarded as the beginning of the French Revolution.
• 1865 A rope team led by Edward Whymper succeeds in making the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Four mountaineers die during the descent.
• 1884 Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon by raising the German flag in the capital Douala as a “German protectorate.”
• 1931 The German banking crisis leads the Brüning government to order several general bank holidays in Germany to prevent a run by worried customers seeking repayment of their deposits.
• 1945 The fraternization ban is relaxed. American occupation soldiers in Germany are permitted to “conduct entertainments with adult Germans in the streets and squares.”
• 1955 The feature film The Three Men in the Snow, based on the novel of the same name by Erich Kästner, is premiered in Cologne.
• 1995 The file extension .mp3 is established as the abbreviation for ISO MPEG Audio Layer 3.
• 1998 The Federal Constitutional Court clears the way for the introduction of the spelling reform.
• 2005 The VII. World Games are opened in Duisburg. Athletes compete against one another in an international strength contest in globally popular sports that are not included in the competition program of the Olympic Games.
• 2015 The NASA space probe New Horizons flies past the dwarf planet Pluto.
• 2016 During celebrations for the national holiday in France, Islamist terrorists carry out an attack in Nice using a van, killing 86 people and injuring more than 400.
• 2024 Spain wins the final of the UEFA European Championship against England and becomes the sole record holder with its 4th title win.

Born on July 14

• 1862 Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter
• 1910 William Hanna, American animator and producer
• 1912 Woody Guthrie, American trade unionist and singer-songwriter
• 1923 Gerd E. Schäfer, German actor
• 1930 Ruth Drexel, German actress and director
• 1951 Erich Hallhuber, German actor
• 1960 Kyle Gass, American musician
• 1981 Milow, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1981 Matti Hautamäki, Finnish ski jumper
• 1992 Jonas Hofmann, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „14. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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