{"id":540604,"date":"2026-07-14T08:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:04:10","slug":"on-this-day-july-14-nasas-new-horizons-gets-closest-look-yet-at-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540604\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 14: NASA’s New Horizons gets closest look yet at Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 14 (UPI) — On this date in history:<\/p>\n

In 1789, French peasants stormed the Bastille prison in Paris, beginning the French Revolution. The event is commemorated as “Bastille Day,” a national holiday in France.\n<\/p>\n

In 1793, Jean Paul Marat, one of the most outspoken leaders of the French Revolution, was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a Royalist sympathizer. The murder was immortalized in a painting by Jacques-Louis David.<\/p>\n

In 1881, outlaw Billy the Kid was shot to death at a ranch in New Mexico.<\/p>\n

In 1914, Robert Goddard, father of the space age, was granted the first patent for a liquid-fueled rocket design. His first rocket<\/a> soared for about 2 seconds, flew as fast as 60 mph and landed 174 feet from the lift-off pad.<\/p>\n

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In 1933, all political parties except the Nazis<\/a> were officially suppressed in Germany.<\/p>\n

In 1966, eight student nurses were found killed in Chicago. Drifter Richard Speck, later convicted of the slayings, died in prison in 1991<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

In 1968, future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Hank Aaron became the eighth person to hit 500 home runs<\/a> for the Atlanta Braves in a win over the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n

In 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country would suspend its participation<\/a> in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, a Cold War agreement that limited deployment of heavy weaponry.<\/p>\n

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In 2009, within months after repaying bailout money supplied by the U.S. government, New York banking giant Goldman Sachs reported a profit of $3.44 billion for the first quarter<\/a> of the year. JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup also reported big profits.<\/p>\n

In 2014, the Church of England’s governing body voted to allow women to become bishops<\/a> for first time in the church’s history.<\/p>\n

In 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto<\/a>, providing NASA scientists with the clearest photographs and most detailed measurements they’ve ever seen of the dwarf planet.<\/p>\n

In 2016, 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, were killed when a truck drove into a crowd<\/a>. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.\n<\/p>\n

In 2019, Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer to win his fifth Wimbledon title<\/a> in a marathon five-set match that lasted nearly 5 hours.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFile Photo by Hugo Philpott\/UPI\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 14 (UPI) — On this date in history: In 1789, French peasants stormed the Bastille prison in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,141,38],"class_list":["post-540604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}