EST. DECEMBER 1994 β’ 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com π―
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
July 14
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Day 194 of 2026 | Week 29 | 165 days until Christmas π
HISTORIC EVENTS
A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in UmeΓ₯, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.
A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
Dedication of statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at Champs-ΓlysΓ©es.
Australian criminal Bradley John Murdoch murders British tourist Peter Falconio and abducted his girlfriend in the Northern Territory.
Rus Flight 9633 crashes during takeoff from Chkalovsky Airport, killing all 10 people on board.
Mario Bros. is released in Japan, beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.
Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
American baseball pitcher (Texas Rangers)
American NBA forward (Miami Heat)
Puerto Rican infielder (Chicago Cubs)
Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
American politician (Rep-D-Rhode Island 1995-2011)
American infielder (Chicago White Sox)
American author and illustrator (The Invention of Hugo Cabret)
Canadian keyboard and accordion player (Crash Test Dummies - "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm")
American actor (Party of 5
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Throwing Muses; Belly)
American female jockey
Canada table tennis player (Olympic 33-92
Australian golfer
American video game music composer
American newspaper columnist (Chicago Tribune)
π― yow.com Connection
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