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14 July 2019 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 14 July 2019 was a Sunday.
- ARIA No. 1
- The ARIA No. 1 was “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.
- Top Film of 2019
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2019 was Avengers: Endgame.
- Best-Selling Vehicle of 2019
- Australia's top-selling new vehicle in 2019 was the Toyota HiLux.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 14 July is Cancer.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 14 July 2019 fell in the Year of the Pig.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for July is Ruby.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 14 July 2019 was Waxing 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 2019 in Australia
A selection from Wikipedia's '2019 in Australia'. Not a complete list.
- 5 January – A far-right political rally held in Melbourne, marked by scuffles with police and counter-protesters, is attended by Independent Senator Fraser Anning, who admits to using tax-payer funded travel to attend the event.
- 4 February – The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry final report is tabled in Parliament. The report makes 76 recommendations.
- 23 March – The Liberal-National Coalition government led by Gladys Berejiklian wins the 2019 New South Wales state election and returns to office with a reduced majority.
Life in Australia in 2019
Prime Minister
Scott Morrison
Monarch
Queen Elizabeth II
Petrol (per litre)
$1.40
Loaf of Bread
$3.70
Average House
$580,000
Weekly Wage
$1,640.00
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