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14 July 2022 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 14 July 2022 was a Thursday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Afraid to Feel” by LF System.
- Top Film of 2022
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2022 was Avatar: The Way of Water.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 14 July is Cancer.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 14 July 2022 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for July is Ruby.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 14 July 2022 was Full Moon.
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 2022 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2022 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 6 February – The Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne as Queen of the United Kingdom.
- 8 April – The home secretary, Priti Patel, apologises for delays in accepting Ukrainian refugees, with only a quarter of the 41,000 granted visas having entered the UK so far.
- 4 May – 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: A new set of sanctions is announced by the government, with Russia banned from using British management consulting, accounting and PR services.
Life in 2022
Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£4.50
Loaf of Bread
£1.80
Average House
£283,615
Weekly Wage
£975.00
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