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What happened in history on this day: July 14?
On July 14 in ...
- 1798 - First direct US federal tax on the states: on dwellings, land and slaves.
- 1798 - Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous and malicious" writing.
- 1845 - First postmasters' provisional stamps issued, New York City, New York, USA.
- 1853 - US Commodore Matthew Perry requests trade relations with Japan.
- 1853 - US President Franklin Pierce opens first industrial exposition (New York).
- 1862 - US Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase advises Congress to monetize postage stamps for small change.
- 1868 - Tape measure enclosed in a circular case is patented, by AJ Fellows, in Connecticut, USA.
- 1890 - The Sherman Purchase Act allows an annual addition of $54 million to circulating currency, for the US Treasury's required monthly purchase of 4.5 million ounces of silver.
- 1899 - In Cook Inlet, Alaska, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs.
- 1934 - 116 degrees F (47 degrees C), Orogrande, New Mexico (state record).
- 1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
- 1950 - RE Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea.
- 1951 - First color telecast of a sporting event (CBS, horse race).
- 1953 - First American national monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver.
- 1954 - 117 degrees F (47 degrees C), East St. Louis, Illinois (state record).
- 1954 - 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record).
- 1954 - The US Treasury Department declares all US gold coins made prior to April 5, 1933 are legal to own.
- 1959 - First atomic-powered cruiser, the Long Beach, christened at Quincy, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1967 - US Treasury begins removing silver coins from circulation from bags of mixed coins coming into Federal Reserve banks, and discontinues fixed price of silver at $1.293 per ounce.
- 1967 - Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing.
- 1974 - Janice Ott and Denise Naslund disappear from Lake Sammamish, Washington (Ted Bundy victms).
- 1976 - Jimmy Carter wins Democratic presidential nomination in New York.
- 1981 - US Senate confirms Donna Pope as US Mint director.
- 1986 - NASA releases plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission.
- 1986 - Richard W Miller becomes first FBI agent convicted of espionage.
- 1987 - Greyhound Bus company buys Trailways Bus for US$80 million.
- 1988 - Volkswagen closes its Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania plant after 10 years of operation (the first factory built by a non-American automaker in the U.S.).
- 2003 - Washington Post columnist Robert Novak publishes the name of Valerie Plame, blowing her cover as a US Central Intelligence Agency operative. The Central Intelligence Agency leak scandal begins.
- 2008 - American Anheuser-Busch accepts a US$52 billion takeover bid from Belgium-based InBev, creating the world's largest beer maker and placing the U.S. company into foreign hands. The cash offer, once approved by regulators, would be the largest cash transaction in history, and the second-biggest ever foreign takeover of a U.S. company.
- 2008 - Standard & Poor's 500 stock market index has its worst single day fall since its creation in 1989.
- 2020 - US President Donald Trump signs the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, authorizing sanctions on those involved in "extinguishing Hong Kong's freedom", and ruling that Hong Kong is no longer a separate economic entity from the People's Republic of China.
Births on July 14
- 1893 - Birth of Spencer Williams in Vidalia, Louisiana, USA; actor (Andy - Amos 'n' Andy).
- 1895 - Birth of Cliff Edwards AKA Ukulele Ike in Hannibal, Missouri, USA; singer (54th Street Revue).
- 1901 - Birth of George Tobias in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Abner Kravitz - Bewitched).
- 1903 - Birth of Ken Murray in New York City, New York, USA; comedian (Ken Murray Show, Judy Garland Show).
- 1910 - Birth of William Hanna in Melrose, New Mexico, USA; cartoonist (Hanna-Barbera, The Flintstones TV show, Quick Draw McGraw TV show, Huckleberry Hound TV show, The Jetsons TV show, Magilla Gorilla TV show, Jonny Quest TV show, Scooby Doo: Where are You TV show).
- 1912 - Birth of Woodrow Wilson Guthrie AKA Woody Guthrie in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA; folk singer and songwriter ("This Land Is Your Land", "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You").
- 1913 - Birth of Leslie Lynch King, Junior AKA Gerald Rudolph Ford in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; 41st US Vice President (1973-74), 38th US President (Republican-1974-77).
- 1917 - Birth of Douglas Edwards in Ada, Oklahoma, USA; broadcast newsman (CBS radio, CBS Evening News (1948-1962), FYI).
- 1918 - Birth of Arthur Laurents in New York City, New York, USA; playwright (West Side Story, Gypsy).
- 1923 - Birth of Dale Robertson in Harrah, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Death Valley Days, Walter - Dynasty, Tales of Wells Fargo).
- 1923 - Birth of Frances Lear in Larchmont, New York, USA; woman's magazine publisher (Lears).
- 1927 - Birth of John Chancellor in Chicago, Illinois, USA; news anchor (NBC, Voice of America).
- 1928 - Birth of Nancy Olson in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; actress (Absent-Minded Professor, Pollyanna, Paper Dolls, Kingston: Confidential).
- 1930 - Birth of Polly Bergen in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA; actress (Rhoda - Winds of War, Baby Talk), singer.
- 1931 - Birth of Donald Eugene Webb in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; murderer (FBI Most Wanted List).
- 1934 - Birth of Del Reeves AKA Franklin Delano Reeves in Sparta, North Carolina, USA; country singer and songwriter ("Girl on the Billboard" (1965), Del Reeves Country Carnival TV show).
- 1934 - Birth of Leo Joseph Koury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; murderer (FBI Most Wanted List).
- 1936 - Birth of Gloria Lambert in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; singer (Sing Along With Mitch).
- 1936 - Birth of Robert F Overmyer in Lorain, Ohio, USA; Colonel US Marine Corp/astronaut (STS 5, STS 51B).
- 1943 - Birth of Lynn Loring in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Patty - Fair Exchange, Barbara - FBI, Return to Peyton Place).
- 1947 - Birth of Steve Stone in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball).
- 1952 - Birth of Eric Laneuville in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; actor, director (Larry - Room 222, St. Elsewhere).
- 1952 - Birth of Jerry Houser in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Slapshot, Summer of '42, Class of '44, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Tale-Spin, Danger Rangers).
- 1952 - Birth of Stan Shaw in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Mississippi, Roots: The Next Generation, Heaven and Hell: North and South Book III).
- 1961 - Birth of Jackie Earle Haley in Northridge, California, USA; actor (Breaking Away, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Valley of the Dinosaurs).
- 1970 - Birth of Missy Gold in Great Falls, Montana, USA; actress (Katie - Benson).
Deaths on July 14
- 1894 - Death of Patrick E. Prendergast by hanging, for the assassination of former Chicago mayor Carter H. Harrison.
- 1970 - Death of James Thomas Mangan at age 73; founder of the Nation of Celestial Space.
- 2022 - Death of Jak Knight at age 28 by suicide in Los Angeles, California, USA; comedian (Black-ish TV show, Big Mouth TV show, Bust Down TV show, Pause With Sam Jay TV show).
- 2022 - Death of Ivana Trump at age 73; first wife of Donald Trump.
- 2023 - Death of Nick Benedict at age 77 in Arizona, USA; actor (All My Children TV show, The Young and the Restless TV show).
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