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756Emperor Xuanzong fled the Tang capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advanced toward the city during the An Lushan Rebellion. unreferenced section
1223Louis VIII became King of France to begin a three-year reign. refimprove section
1769 – Spanish soldier Gaspar de Portolá led the first European land expedition to present-day California. Portolá: refimprove; Expedition: refimprove section
1865 – A seven-man team made the first ascent of the Matterhorn, marking the end of the golden age of alpinism. lots of references need page numbers (10)
1881American frontier outlaw and gunman Billy the Kid was killed by sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. appears on September 23
1933 – With the enactment of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, the Nazi Party began its eugenics program. refimprove
1957Rawya Ateya took her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt to become the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world. many {{cn}} tags (9)
1958Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim. lead too short
1960 – English primatologist Jane Goodall arrived in Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, Tanganyika, to begin her groundbreaking study of the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. lots of CN tags (7)
1965 – The NASA spacecraft Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet. refimprove section
1969 – Political conflicts between El Salvador and Honduras erupted into the four-day Football War, so-named because it coincided with the inflamed rioting during the second CONCACAF qualifying round for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. refimprove
1995 – The MPEG-2 Audio Layer III audio coding format was given the filename extension by which it became known: MP3. refimprove section
2002 – The orphaned killer whale named Springer was released after a month of captivity to become the only cetacean in history to be successfully re-integrated into a wild pod after human intervention. unreferenced section
2015 – The New Horizons probe became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto. refimprove section
John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford |d|1526| Too much uncited

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July 14: Bastille Day in France (1789); Festino di Santa Rosalia begins in Palermo, Italy

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