Public Holidays on July 14

• 🌍 Bastille Day (France)
• 🌍 Fête nationale (France)

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On This Day in History — July 14

• 2016 — A terrorist vehicular attack in Nice, France kills 86 civilians and injures over 400 others.
• 2015 — NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
• 2002 — French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
• 1992 — 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
• 1976 — Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
• 1969 — Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.

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Notable Births on July 14

• 1995 — Kim Hyo-joo, South Korean golfer
• 1991 — Shabazz Napier, American basketball player
• 1989 — Sakari Mattila, Finnish footballer
• 1989 — Rolando McClain, American football player
• 1989 — Cyril Rioli, Australian rules footballer
• 1988 — Conor McGregor, Irish mixed martial artist

Notable Deaths on July 14

• 2017 — Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (b. 1977)
• 2016 — Helena Benitez, Filipino politician, educator and environmentalist (b. 1914)
• 2015 — Willer Bordon, Italian businessman, academic, and politician, Italian Minister of the Environment (b. 1949)
• 2015 — Wolf Gremm, German director and producer (b. 1942)
• 2015 — Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman, founded Horiba (b. 1924)
• 2014 — Alice Coachman, American high jumper (b. 1923)

Public Holidays on July 15

• 🌍 Democracy and National Unity Day (Turkey)
• 🌍 Demokrasi ve Millî Birlik Günü (Turkey)
• 🌍 Statehood Day (Ukraine)

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Religious Observances on July 15

• Jewish: Rosh Chodesh Av ראש חודש אב
• Islamic: End of the holy months

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On This Day in History — July 15

• 2016 — Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
• 2014 — A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
• 2006 — Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.
• 2003 — AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
• 2002 — "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
• 2002 — Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

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Notable Births on July 15

• 1993 — Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer
• 1992 — Tobias Harris, American basketball player
• 1992 — Hokutōfuji Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 — Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
• 1991 — Danilo, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 — Derrick Favors, American basketball player

Notable Deaths on July 15

• 2017 — Martin Landau, American film and television actor (b. 1928)
• 2015 — Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938)
• 2015 — Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1916)
• 2015 — Aubrey Morris, British actor (b. 1926)
• 2015 — Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (b. 1933)
• 2014 — Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)