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What happened in history on this day: July 14?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On July 14 in ...
- 1989 - IBM and Compaq Computer sign a patent cross-licensing agreement, covering all patents filed before July 1, 1993.
- 1995 - Microsoft terms Windows 95 source code "golden", meaning that no more changes to the 15 million lines of code will be made before the product ships.
- 2004 - Intel releases the 1.5 GHz Pentium M 705 processor. It features 1 MB cache.
- 2005 - PalmOne changes its name to Palm.
- 1934 - The Silly Symphony film The Flying Mouse is released to theaters.
- 1941 - Disney delivers the animated training film Four Methods of Flush Riveting in to the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
- 1955 - At Disneyland park, the Casey Jr. Circus Train makes its first test ride. On the 25-percent uphill grade, the engine almost tips backward. Lead weights are added to the front, allowing it to temporarily open on the 17th.
- 1965 - Buena Vista releases Disney's live-action feature film The Monkey's Uncle to theaters. It is a sequel to the film The Misadventures of Merlin Jones. Music group The Beach Boys make their motion picture debut.
- 1978 - The American Egg House restaurant opens on Main Street at Disneyland.
- 1981 - The ice skating show Walt Disney's World on Ice premieres in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
- 1989 - 1989 Disney re-releases the film Peter Pan to theaters.
- 1999 - The Disney Wonder cruise ship, second of the Disney Cruise line, departs from Venice, Italy.
- 2000 - Tokyo Disneyland welcomes its 250 millionth guest.
- 2002 - The ABC TV network airs the Disney Channel Original Movie Cadet Kelly. This is the first time a Disney Channel movie is shown off the Disney Channel.
- 2005 - The Hollywood Historic Trust honors Disneyland park with an Award of Excellence. A brass plaque is placed adjacent to the Disneyland star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 2006 - The show Big Band Beat opens in the Broadway Music Theater in Tokyo DisneySea.
- 2012 - The Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars attraction opens in Hong Kong Disneyland.
- 1957 - In Marlboro, Maryland, an SCCA race is held for B, C, and D Production cars.
- Finishing 1st in B Production class and 1st overall is the Jerry Earl's Corvette SR-2 driven by Richard Thompson.
- Finishing 2nd in B Production class and 2nd overall is the Corvette driven by Bark Henry.
- Finishing 3rd in B Production class is the Corvette driven by Bob Muat.
- 1968 - In Watkins Glen, New York, the Watkins Glen Six Hour Enduro race is held. Finishing 1st in GT class and 7th overall is the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corvette, driven by Jerry Thompson and Tony DeLorenzo.
- 1985 - The NBC television network airs the two-hour movie Stingray, a crime drama about a man called Stingray who travels in a Corvette Stingray. The film is a pilot for a television series.
- 1991 - At the Des Moines Grand Prix, in Des Moines, Iowa, the SCCA Escort World Challenge race is held.
- Shawn Hendricks finishes first in the No. 4 Bakeracing Corvette.
- Second is R.K. Smith in the No. 2 Powell Motorsports Corvette.
- 1993 - The last 1993 Corvette is built, a white coupe.
- 2003 - Antigua & Barbuda issues 5 postage stamps for the 50th anniversary of the Corvette.
- 2007 - At the Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa, the Iowa Speedway race is held, round ten of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
- Finishing 6th is the Team Sahlen #42 Corvette driven by Joe Sahlen and Will Nonnamaker.
- Finishing 12th is the Team Sahlen #43 Corvette driven by Joe Nonnamaker and Wayne Nonnamaker.
- Finishing 15th is the Stevenson Automotive #57 Corvette driven by Dominic Cicero and Marc Bunting.
- 1940 - British commandos make a raid on occupied Guernsey. The raid is a failure.
- 1941 - Adolf Hitler issues a supplement to Directive No. 32, planning for substantial reductions of Army strength following the overthrow of Russia. The Air Force is to be expanded as the top priority.
- 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt sends British Prime Minister Winston Churchill a personal message saying there must be no secret agreements made over post-war European frontiers.
- 1943 - Canadian 51st (Highland) Division captures Vizzini, Sicily.
- 1945 - Netherlands issues a postage stamp commemorating the liberation of the country.
- 2004 - EA Sports releases the NCAA Football 2005 video game for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox in the US.
- 2011 - Nintendo releases the Star Fox 64 3D video game for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan.
- 1641 - Brandenburg and Sweden cease fighting each other.
- 1918 - Birth of Ernst Ingmar Bergman in Uppsala; film director.
- 1954 - The US Treasury Department declares all US gold coins made prior to April 5, 1933 are legal to own.
- 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 $1.29 per ounce.
- 1981 - US Senate confirms Donna Pope as US Mint director.
- 2008 - U.S. District Court in Florida dismisses a lawsuit of Stanley Klos against US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson seeking inclusion in the US Mint's Presidential dollar program the ten men who served as president of the United States in Congress Assembled under the 1777 Articles of Confederation.
- 1916 - Saint Louis Browns' Ernie Koob pitches all 17 innings in a 0-0 tie versus Boston Red Sox.
- 1934 - New York Times (erronously) declares Babe Ruth 700 home run record to stand for all time.
- 1934 - Philadelphia Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beat Cincinnati Reds 18-0.
- 1946 - Cleveland Indians' Lou Boudreau hits four doubles and home run but Boston Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams' 3 homeruns with 8 RBIs.
- 1951 - First color telecast of a sporting event (CBS, horse race).
- 1951 - Citation becomes first horse to win $1,000,000 in races.
- 1953 - National League beats American League 5-1 in 20th All Star Game (Crosley Field, Cincinnati, Ohio).
- 1955 - Two killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England.
- 1956 - Boston Red Sox' pitcher Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0.
- 1962 - Atlanta Brave's Hank Aaron hits home run number 500.
- 1967 - Houston Astros' Eddie Matthews hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal.
- 1968 - Atlanta Braves' Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giants' Mike McCormick.
- 1968 - Houston Astros' Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Cincinnati Reds 6-1.
- 1969 - "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins.
- 1970 - National League wins 8th straight All Star Game, 5-4 in 12 innings (Riverfront, Cincinnati).
- 1985 - Kathy Baker beats Judy Clark to win golf's US Women's Open.
- 1985 - Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24.
- 1986 - Jane Geddes beats Sally Little to win golf's US Women's Open.
- 1987 - National League defeats American League, 2-0 in 13, in 58th All-Star Game in Oakland, California.
- 1988 - Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th home run into 7th place.
- 2022 - At Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Milwaukee Brewers beats San Francisco Giants by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Houston Astros beats Los Angeles Angels by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Seattle Mariners beats Texas Rangers by score 6-5.
- 2022 - At Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: New York Mets beats Chicago Cubs by score 8-0.
- 2022 - At Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Chicago White Sox beats Minnesota Twins by score 12-2.
- 2022 - At Busch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Los Angeles Dodgers beats Saint Louis Cardinals by score 4-0.
- 2022 - At Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Cleveland Guardians beats Detroit Tigers by score 4-0.
- 2022 - At Tropicana Field in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Tampa Bay Rays beats Boston Red Sox by score 5-4.
- 2022 - At Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Major League Baseball regular season game: Kansas City Royals beats Toronto Blue Jays by score 3-1.
- 2022 - At Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Cincinnati Reds beats New York Yankees by score 7-6.
- 2022 - At Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Atlanta Braves beats Washington Nationals by score 5-4.
- 2022 - At Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Colorado Rockies beats San Diego Padres by score 8-5.
- 2022 - At LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida, USA , Major League Baseball regular season game: Miami Marlins beats Pittsburgh Pirates by score 3-2.
- 1893 - A Charlois discovers asteroid #370 Modestia.
- 1934 - C Jackson discovers asteroids #1325 Inanda and #1326 Losaka.
- 1965 - US Mariner IV, first Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km).
- 1967 - Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing.
- 1972 - L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids #1959 Karbyshev and #2423 Ibarruri.
- 1977 - N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2286 Fesenkov, #2492 Kutuzov.
- 1986 - NASA releases plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission.
- 2015 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performs a close flyby of Pluto, becoming the first spacecraft in history to visit the distant world.
- 1955 - Two killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England.
- 2010 - Heavy rain across southern and central China triggers landslides killing at least 37, with another 40 people missing.
- 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.
Other history:
- 1789 - Bastille Day - citizens of Paris, France, storm Bastille prison.
- 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.
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