It happened on this day, July 14th.
events:
1789 – Fall of the Bastille prison in France, considered one of the most important events of the French Revolution.
1937 – Signing of the Common Border Treaty between Iraq and Iran.
1958 – A military coup in Iraq overthrows the monarchy and results in the assassination of King Faisal II and members of his family.
1963 – Israeli forces launch an attack on the Jordanian border after a series of military operations carried out by the Palestinian resistance from Jordanian territory.
1969- The Football War breaks out between Honduras and El Salvador
1978 – A Soviet court issues a judgment convicting dissident Natan Sharinsky of treason and spying for the United States.
2002 – French President Jacques Chirac survived an assassination attempt during the Bastille Day military parade.
2007 – Talks between Lebanese second-tier parties, with the participation of civil society representatives, were held in Saint-Cloud, France, to resolve differences between Lebanese politicians, under the official sponsorship of France, represented by Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. The talks continued for two days and did not produce any tangible results.
2008 – International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for committing war crimes in the Darfur region.
2011 – Anti-housing protests begin in Israel, which grow into the largest popular protest movement in its history.
2015 – A historic comprehensive agreement on Iran's nuclear program is reached between the P5+1 and Iran.
2016 – An intentional truck-ramming accident occurred in the French city of Nice, killing 84 people and injuring 202 others.
2017 – Israeli police close the Al-Aqsa Mosque to worshipers on Friday for the first time since 1969, following Michael Dennis Rohn's attempt to set fire to the mosque, after a morning shooting in Jerusalem injured three Israeli police officers.
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Births:
1454 – Angelo Poliziano, Italian poet and playwright.
1602 – Jules Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman.
1862 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter.
1868 – Gertrude Bell, British researcher and explorer.
1874 – Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, Khedive of Egypt.
1910 – William Hanna, American producer and animator.
1913 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States.
1918 – Zaki Nassif, Lebanese composer and singer. Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director.
1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973.
1935 – Milan Dolinski, Czechoslovakian footballer.
** Iiichi Negishi, Japanese organic chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010.
1937 – Yoshiro Mori, Prime Minister of Japan.
1942 – Javier Solana, Spanish politician.
(1945–Samira MohsenEgyptian actress
** Mohamed Said, an Algerian cleric.
1955 – Sandor Puhl, Hungarian football referee.
1960 – Gene Lynch, American actor.
1966 – Matthew Fox, American actor.
1971 – Howard Webb, English football referee.
1977 – Princess Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden.
1981 – Khaled Aziz, Saudi footballer.
1984 – Nilmar, Brazilian footballer.
1987 – Adam Johnson, English footballer.
1988 – James Fagan, English footballer.
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Death:
1200 – Ibn al-Buraq al-Andalusi, Andalusian Muslim scholar and poet.
1223 – King Philip II, King of France.
1742 – Richard Bentley, English theologian.
1827 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist.
1881 – Henry McCarty, American outlaw.
1944 – Asmahan, Syrian singer.
1954 – Jacinto Benapente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922.
1958 – King Faisal II, King of Iraq.
1990 – Omar Abu Risha, Syrian poet.
2007 – Ibrahim Al-Aswad Benhamadi, contemporary Tunisian storyteller and intellectual.
** Khaled Nasra, Palestinian poet and journalist.
2012 – Muhammad Al-Bissati, Egyptian writer.
2021 – Mamnoon Hussain, President of Pakistan.
** Kurt Vestergaard, Danish cartoonist.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ National holiday in France, celebrating the fall of the Bastille prison, a symbol of injustice under the monarchy, and organizing a military parade on July 14.
⬅️ Republic Day in Iraq.
