At A Glance

14 July 2014 at a glance

Day of the week
14 July 2014 was a Monday.
ARIA No. 1
The ARIA No. 1 was “We Are Done” by The Madden Brothers.
Top Film of 2014
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2014 was Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Best-Selling Vehicle of 2014
Australia's top-selling new vehicle in 2014 was the Toyota Corolla.
Star sign
The star sign for 14 July is Cancer.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 14 July 2014 fell in the Year of the Horse.
Birthstone
The birthstone for July is Ruby.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 14 July 2014 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 14 July

  • 1960 Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.
  • 1965 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.
  • 1983 Mario Bros. is released in Japan, beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.
  • 2013 Dedication of the statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture of the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
  • 2015 NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.

Famous people born on 14 July

  • Howard Lutnick, American businessman, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, secretary of commerce in the Trump administration (born 1961)
  • Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (1913–2006)
  • Phoebe Waller-Bridge, English actress and screenwriter (born 1985)
  • Harry Dean Stanton, American actor, musician, and singer (1926–2017)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 2014 in Australia

A selection from Wikipedia's '2014 in Australia'. Not a complete list.

  • 15 March – State elections are held in South Australia and Tasmania. The Liberal Party defeats the Giddings Labor government in Tasmania, after 16 years in opposition.
  • 30 March – It is announced that former Defence Force Chief Angus Houston will lead the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 by heading a new Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre to be established in Perth, Western Australia.
  • 5 April – A special election is held for six Senate seats from Western Australia, following the voiding of results due to the loss of 1,375 ballot papers in the 2013 federal election.

Life in Australia in 2014

Prime Minister

Tony Abbott

Monarch

Queen Elizabeth II

Petrol (per litre)

$1.38

Loaf of Bread

$3.30

Average House

$525,000

Weekly Wage

$1,440.00

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