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This is a list of selected July 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1223Louis VIII became King of France. refimprove
1789French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille (pictured), freeing its inmates and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition. needs more footnotes
1881American frontier outlaw and gunman Billy the Kid was killed by sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. too much trivia
1902Venice's St Mark's Campanile collapsed, also demolishing the loggetta but only killing the caretaker's cat. refimprove
1933Gleichschaltung: All political parties in Germany were outlawed, except the National Socialist German Workers Party. needs more footnotes
1958King Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim. Tagged for cleanup
1965 – The NASA spacecraft Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet. unreferenced 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 section

Eligible

  • 2002 – Orphaned killer whale Springer was released after a month of captivity to the become only whale in history to be successfully re-integrated into a wild pod after human intervention.

July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789)

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  • 1987 – Over 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain fell in a two-and-a-half-hour period in Montreal, causing severe flooding and over CA$220 million in damages.
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