Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

July 14 is the 195th day of the year (196th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 170 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

756 - An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang of China flees the capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advance toward the city.

1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France.

1769 - Spanish soldier Gaspar de Portola leads the first European land expedition to present-day California.

1771 - Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junipero Serra.

1789 – The Bastille is attacked, starting the French Revolution.

1790 – The citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fete de la Federation.

1798 - La Marseillaise becomes the national anthem of France

1798 - The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States, making it a federal crime to write, publish or say heavily critical or false statements about the United States Government.

1853 - Start of the first major World's Fair to take place in the United States, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.

1865 – The first ascent of the Matterhorn is made, by a team lead by Edward Whymper. Four members of the group die on the way back down.

1865 - Piz Buin, the highest peak in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, first climbed by a team of four led by Joseph Anton Specht.

1881 – At Fort Sumner, New Mexico, Pat Garrett shoots and kills Billy the Kid.

1900 - The Armies of the Eight Nation Alliance capture Tientsin, China, during the Boxer Rebellion.

1901 – 2000

1902 - The Campanile in Saint Mark's Square, Venice, collapses.

1911 - Henry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers, lands his airplane on the South Lawn of the White House.

1916 - World War I: Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme.

1920 - The Red Army conquers Vilnius during the Polish-Soviet War.

1933 – Gleichschaltung: All political parties, apart from the Nazi Party, are banned in Germany.

1943 - In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the US National Monument in honor of an African American.

1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded outside the Italian Parliament.

1950 - Korean War: North Korean troops start the Battle of Taejon.

1951 - At Silverstone, England, Argentina's Jose Froilan Gonzalez achieves Ferrari's first Formula One Grand Prix victory.

1957 - In Egypt, Rawya Ateya becomes the first Member of the Parliament in the Arab world.

1958 – King Faisal II of Iraq is killed, and the monarchy is overthrown by forces lead by Abdul Karim Kassem, who takes over as head of state.

1958 - In Ghana, the Ghanaian pound replaces the colonial British West African pound.

1960 - Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.

1964 - Frenchman Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France and his 4th in a row.

1965 - The Mariner 4 fly-by of Mars takes the first close-up photographs of a planet other than Earth.

1969 – Football War: After Honduras loses a football match against El Salvador, riots break out against El Salvadoran migrant workers in Honduras.

1969 - In the US, 500, 1000, 5000 and 10 000 dollar bills are withdrawn from circulation.

1976 - Capital punishment is banned in Canada.

1987 - Montreal is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal flood of 1987.

2000 - A powerful solar flare causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.

2002 – An assassination attempt is made on French President Jacques Chirac at a Bastille Day parade.

2003 – The United States Government admits the existence of Area 51.

2006 - Tropical storm Bilis strikes the Chinese mainland - Hunan province experiences its worst flooding in 100 years.

2007 - The Gran Telescopio Canarias reflecting telescope begins operations on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands.

2011 – The United Nations admits South Sudan as the 193rd member nation.[1]

2014 - The Church of England votes in favor of having female bishops at its General Synod (its official meeting).

2015 - The novel Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee goes on sale.

2015 - A deal is struck on limiting Iran's nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.

2015 - The New Horizons space probe passes by the dwarf planet Pluto.

2016 - 2016 Nice attack: A truck is driven through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, Southern France, killing 84 people.

2018 - Tennis: Angelique Kerber becomes the first German to win the women's singles title at the Wimbledon championships since Steffi Graf in 1996, by defeating Serena Williams in two sets in the final.

2019 - Novak Djokovic wins a five-set final against Roger Federer to win his fifth singles title at the Wimbledon championships.

2019 - England wins the men's Cricket World Cup for the first time, defeating New Zealand in a close match in the final.

2019 - US President Donald Trump causes controversy and debate with a Twitter attack on four ethnic minority Democrat Congresswomen also known as "The Squad" - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley.