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Storming of the Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houël -
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Picture of Mars taken from Mariner 4 -
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Springer the orca -
Jane Goodall -
Valerie Plame -
Attack on Joseph Priestley's home -
Gaspar de Portolá -
Ruins of St Mark's Campanile after its collapse -
Matterhorn
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 756 – Emperor Xuanzong fled the Tang capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advanced toward the city during the An Lushan Rebellion. | unreferenced section |
| 1223 – Louis VIII became King of France to begin a three-year reign. | refimprove section |
| 1769 – Spanish soldier Gaspar de Portolá led the first European land expedition to present-day California. | Portolá: refimprove; Expedition: refimprove section |
| 1865 – A seven-man team made the first ascent of the Matterhorn, marking the end of the golden age of alpinism. | lots of references need page numbers (10) |
| 1881 – American frontier outlaw and gunman Billy the Kid was killed by sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. | appears on September 23 |
| 1933 – With the enactment of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, the Nazi Party began its eugenics program. | refimprove |
| 1957 – Rawya Ateya took her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt to become the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world. | many {{cn}} tags (9) |
| 1958 – Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim. | lead too short |
| 1960 – English primatologist Jane Goodall arrived in Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, Tanganyika, to begin her groundbreaking study of the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| 1965 – The NASA spacecraft Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet. | refimprove section |
| 1969 – Political conflicts between El Salvador and Honduras erupted into the four-day Football War, so-named because it coincided with the inflamed rioting during the second CONCACAF qualifying round for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. | refimprove |
| 1995 – The MPEG-2 Audio Layer III audio coding format was given the filename extension by which it became known: MP3. | refimprove section |
| 2002 – The orphaned killer whale named Springer was released after a month of captivity to become the only cetacean in history to be successfully re-integrated into a wild pod after human intervention. | unreferenced section |
| 2015 – The New Horizons probe became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto. | refimprove section |
| John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford |d|1526| | Too much uncited |
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- 1789 – The Bastille, a fortress and prison in Paris, was stormed by a crowd during the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
- 1798 – The Sedition Act became law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
- 1881 – While on the run from a death sentence, American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sherriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
- 1902 – The medieval St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapsed, also demolishing the Loggetta del Sansovino.
- 1916 – The Battle of Delville Wood began as an action within the Battle of the Somme, lasting until 3 September 1916.
- 1960 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 ditched off Polillo Island in the Philippines, killing one person and injuring 44.
- 1987 – More than 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain fell in a two-and-a-half-hour period in parts of Montreal, causing severe flooding.
- 2016 – A man deliberately drove a truck into crowds in Nice, France, resulting in 86 deaths.
- Born/died: Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester|d|1262| James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley |d|1774| Arthur de Gobineau |b|1816| Georgiana Hill |b|1825| Edward White Benson |b|1829| Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld|b|1837| Kate M. Gordon |b|1861| Juliette Wytsman |b|1866| Roy Inwood |b|1890| Paul Kruger|d|1904| Mihran Kassabian|d|1910| William Hanna |b|1910| Sixto Durán Ballén |b|1921|Alphonse Mucha |d|1939| Herbert Maryon |d|1965| Harry Atwood |d|1967| Howard Webb |b|1971| Samir Handanović|b|1984| Constance Stokes |d|1991| César Tovar |d|1994| Maryam Mirzakhani|d|2017|
July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789); Festino di Santa Rosalia begins in Palermo, Italy
- 1791 – The Priestley Riots, _targeting religious dissenters such as Joseph Priestley, began in Birmingham, England.
- 1874 – A fire destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people in Chicago, leading to reforms in the city's fire-prevention and firefighting efforts.
- 1902 – An expedition led by Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovered the Incan city of Machu Picchu (pictured).
- 1950 – Korean War: North Korean troops began attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in present-day Daejeon, South Korea.
- 2003 – Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative was leaked to and published by journalist Robert Novak.
- Roy Inwood (b. 1890)
- Paul Kruger (d. 1904)
- Samir Handanović (b. 1984)
- César Tovar (d. 1994)