Historical timeline for July 14

A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, 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 the statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture of the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at Champs-Élysées.

Australian criminal Bradley John Murdoch murders British tourist Peter Falconio and abducts 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.

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 ditches off Polillo Island in the Philippines, killing one person and injuring 44.

In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.

Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.

Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Korean War: beginning of the Battle of Taejon.

Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.

In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.

In the Wardha session of Congress, the "Quit India" resolution is approved, authorising Mahatma Gandhi to campaign for India's independence from Britain.

In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.

Nazi eugenics programme begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring requiring the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.