On This Day — July 14

Here are some of the most significant historical events that happened on July 14.

• 2019: A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.
• 2016: A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.
• 2015: NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
• 2013: Dedication of statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
• 2002: French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at Champs-Élysées.

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