July 14th is

Grand Marnier Day

Mac and Cheese Day

Pandemonium Day

Shark Awareness Day

National Tape Measure Day *

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MORE! Gustav Klimt, Gertrude Bell and Ingmar Bergman, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

France – Bastille Day/Feté de la Fédération

Iraq – Republic Day

Kiribati – Culture Day

Madagascar – Fandoana Bathing Festival

Mayotte – French Day of the Republic

New Caledonia/Réunion/Guadeloupe  Saint Barthélemy/
Saint Pierre et Miquelon/Wallis & Fotuna  – Feté Nationale

United Kingdom – Emmeline Pankhurst Day

United States – Sherwood OR:
Robin Hood Festival (opening day)

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On This Day in HISTORY

756 – Tang Dynasty, China: rebellion leader General An Lushan leads his army toward the capital city of Chang’an; Emperor Xuanzong flees, which costs him his throne

1430 – The Burgundians remand Joan d’Arc to Bishop Cauchon, of Beauvais

1769 – Gaspar de Portolá and his men establish a base in Northern California

1789 – French Revolution – Parisians storm the Bastille to release prisoners

Storming of the Bastille 1789 by Houel

1790 – Celebration in Paris of national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération

1795 – The French Nation Convention votes “La Marseillaise” France’s national anthem

1798 – U.S. Congress passes the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the federal government

1853 – The Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations , the first major ‘World’s Fair’ in the U.S., opens in New York City

1862 – Gustav Klimt born, Austrian symbolist painter, leading figure in the Vienna Secessionist movement

Three Ages of Woman – Mother and Child – detail, by Gustav Klimt

1868 – National Tape Measure Day * – Alvin J. Fellows patents “improvements for tape measures” including a way to make them retractable

1868 – Gertrude Bell born, British author, archaeologist, public administrator and spy, influential in the establishment of Jordan and Iraq

1874 – The Great Chicago Fire destroys 47 acres of the city

1912 – Woody Guthrie born, American Folk and Protest Singer-Songwriter

1918 – Ingmar Bergman born, highly influential Swedish filmmaker; The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957)

1921 – Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted in Dedham, Mass., of killing a shoe company paymaster and his guard

1927 – First commercial airplane flight to Hawaii

1938 – The Manifesto of Race is published, preparing the way for the enactment in October of the Racial Laws in Fascist Italy; the manifesto declares: Italians are descendants of the Aryan race; all non-Aryan races are inferior; Jews should be banned from many professions; and sexual relations/marriages between Italians and Jews or Africans be prohibited

1942 – Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly sing their last duet together, recording “Brazil” with the Jimmy Dorsey band

1946 – Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care is first published, quickly becoming a bestseller, and one of the most widely-discussed books ever published

1956 – Fats Domino hits top of the charts with “I’m in Love Again”

1957 – Tawya Ateya takes her seat in Egypt’s National Assembly,  first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.

1960 – Jane Goodall begins her study of chimpanzees at Gombe Stream Reserve

1965 – NASA space probe Mariner 4 flies by Mars, photographing the planet

1976 – Capital punishment is abolished in Canada

1989 – Cyndi Lauper’s “My First Night Without You” is  the first closed-captioned video (closed-caption version not on YouTube!)

1993 – Aeroflot begins non-stop flights between New York and Moscow

2015 – NASA spacecraft New Horizons performs first flyby of Pluto

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