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Efimov Traveling Theater in Moscow, 1919

• ... that Ivan and Nina Efimov, known as the Adam and Eve of Russian puppetry, lived for six years largely on earnings from their traveling puppet show (pictured)?
• ... that
  Typhoon Joe and Typhoon Kim
  struck the Philippines within a week of each other in July 1980?
• ... that the first United States vessel to enter the Black Sea was owned by Ezra Weston II, a Massachusetts shipbuilder known as "King Caesar"?
• ... that MINURCA was established by the UN Security Council to replace another peacekeeping force called MISAB?
• ... that Kate Devlin is a computer scientist working in the field of sex robots and human-computer interaction?
• ... that Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel Starship Troopers is a critique of US society of the 1950s, and advocates for corporal and capital punishment?
• ... that award-winning film director Nujoom Al-Ghanem is also a poet?
• ... that the Irish Fright caused thousands of English people to arm themselves against non-existent Irish marauders believed to be burning and massacring English towns?

Separation of the iceberg from the Larsen C Ice Shelf

• Chinese pro-democracy activist, political prisoner, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo dies aged 61.
• Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sentenced to nine and a half years of prison over the Operation Car Wash corruption scandal.
• A giant iceberg, covering approximately 5,800 km² (2,200 sq mi), breaks away (separation pictured) from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
• After covering 450 kilometres (280 mi), the Turkish March for Justice concludes in Istanbul at a mass rally attended by hundreds of thousands of people.
• The Iraqi government declares victory in the
  Battle of Mosul
  .

July 14

Storming of the Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houël

• 1789 – French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille (pictured), freeing its inmates and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition.
• 1950 – In an early battle of the Korean War, North Korean troops began attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in Taejon, South Korea.
• Abd al-Karim Qasim
  .
• 1987 – Over 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain fell in a two-and-a-half-hour period in Montreal, causing severe flooding and over C$220 million in damages.
• 1995 – The MPEG-2 Audio Layer III audio coding format was given the filename extension by which it became known: MP3.

Edward White Benson (b. 1829) · William Hanna (b. 1910) · Constance Stokes (d. 1991)