July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789)
Matterhorn
- 756 – Emperor Xuanzong fled the Tang capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advance toward the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
- 1791 – The Priestley Riots began, in which Joseph Priestley and other religious Dissenters were driven out of Birmingham, England.
- 1865 – A seven-man team made the first ascent of the Matterhorn (pictured), marking the end of the golden age of alpinism.
- 1933 – With the enactment of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, the Nazi Party began its eugenics program.
- 2003 – In an effort to discredit US Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak revealed that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was a CIA "operative".
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