Sunday, July 14, 2013

This will be 195th day of the year and 170 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 7 Av 5773
Chinese calendar — the 7th day of the 6th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

July 14 Birthdays

Woody Guthrie
1912–1967, American folk singer, guitarist, and composer, born in Okemah, Oklahoma.

James McNeill Whistler
painter (1834)

Emmeline Pankhurst
woman suffragist. (1858)

Gertrude Bell
traveler, author, and government official (1868)

Gerald R. Ford
former president (1913)

Ingmar Bergman
director (1918)

Maulana Karenga
scholar (1941)

Matthew Fox
actor (1966)

July 2013

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	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

July 14 in History

1789

The storming and destruction of Bastille marked the beginning of the French Revolution.

1798

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

1881

Billy the Kid was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.

1921

In one of the most controversial cases in U.S. history, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of two murders and sentenced to death.

1933

In Germany, all political parties except the Nazi party were outlawed.

1946

Dr. Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care was published.

1958

A military coup overthrew the monarchy in Iraq, killing King Faisal II. General Abdul Karim Kassem becomes Iraq's leader.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.