At A Glance

14 July 2020 at a glance

Day of the week
14 July 2020 was a Tuesday.
ARIA No. 1
The ARIA No. 1 was “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” by Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo.
Top Film of 2020
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2020 was Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train.
Best-Selling Vehicle of 2020
Australia's top-selling new vehicle in 2020 was the Toyota HiLux.
Star sign
The star sign for 14 July is Cancer.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 14 July 2020 fell in the Year of the Rat.
Birthstone
The birthstone for July is Ruby.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 14 July 2020 was Waning Crescent.

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 2020 in Australia

A selection from Wikipedia's '2020 in Australia'. Not a complete list.

  • 16 February – A fundraising concert Fire Fight Australia is held at Stadium Australia in Sydney following the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season.
  • 26 February – Down to Earth bushfire relief benefit concert held at Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne.
  • 23 March – The Australian Parliament sits to debate and pass an economic stimulus package to attempt to mitigate the economic effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, then adjourns until August 2020.

Life in Australia in 2020

Prime Minister

Scott Morrison

Monarch

Queen Elizabeth II

Petrol (per litre)

$1.10

Loaf of Bread

$3.80

Average House

$590,000

Weekly Wage

$1,710.00

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