14 July 1789     Bastille Day, the French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris.
14 July 1881     Outlaw Billy the Kid was shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the Maxwell House in New Mexico.
14 July 1951     Ferrari had their first win in F1 at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
14 July 1965     Mariner 4 passed close to Mars taking the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs took six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
14 July 1969     ‘Easy Rider’ starring Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson was released.
14 July 1983     Mario Bros. was released in Japan, the start of the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.
14 July 2002     French president Jacques Chirac escaped an assassination attempt  during a Bastille Day parade.
14 July 2015     NASA’s New Horizons probe became the first to flyby Pluto.

15 July 1988     ‘Die Hard’ starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman had its world premiere.
15 July 1996     Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, signed their divorce papers.
15 July 1997     Gianni Versace was shot dead on the steps of his Miami mansion.
15 July 2006     Twitter social media platform was launched.
15 July 2010     The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was sealed.
15 July 2012     South Korean rapper Psy released his hit single ‘Gangnam Style’.
15 July 2016     Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay star Chris Martin divorce after 12 years of marriage.
15 July 2018     France beat Croatia to win their second FIFA World Cup.

16 July 1377     King Richard II of England was crowned.
16 July 1661     Europe’s first banknote was issued by the Bank of Stockholm.
16 July 1955     Stirling Moss won the British Grand Prix at the Aintree track. The first Englishman to win the race.
16 July 1965     The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opened.
16 July 1969     Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
16 July 2012     Russell Brand divorced Katy Perry.
16 July 2017     The BBC announced the first female Doctor Who would be played by Jodie Whittaker.

17 July 1048     Damasus II was elected pope, and died 23 days later.
17 July 1902     Willis Carrier built the first air conditioning unit.
17 July 1955     Disneyland was opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
17 July 1959     Billie Holiday died.
17 July 1975     Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox Starkey divorced, after 10 years of marriage.
17 July 1976     The Summer Olympic Games opened in Montreal.
17 July 2001     Concorde returned to service almost a year after the crash in 2000.
17 July 2005     Sir Edward Heath died.
17 July 2014     Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was shot down on the Ukraine/Russia boarder with the loss of all 298 people on board.

18 July 1976     Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics.

19 July 1545     The Tudor warship Mary Rose sank off the coast of Portsmouth.
19 July 1877     Spencer Gore won the first Wimbledon Tennis title.
19 July 1903     Maurice Garin won the first Tour de France.
19 July 1941     Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his “V for Victory” campaign.
19 July 1941     Tom and Jerry made their TV debut under their own names.
19 July 1952     The Summer Olympic Games opened in Helsinki, Finland.
19 July 1980     The Summer Olympic Games opened in Moscow.

20 July 1837     Euston railway station opened in London, the city’s first intercity railway station.
20 July 1940     California opened its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
20 July 1969     Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.
20 July 1973     Bruce Lee died.