Portal:United States/Anniversaries/July/July 14
- 1798 – The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the [nited States government.
- 1881 – Notorious Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner, then in the New Mexico Territory.
- 1900 – Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance, of which the United States was a member, capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
- 1960 – Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream National Park in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
- 1965 – The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
- 1969 – The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills ($5000 bill pictured) are officially withdrawn from circulation.
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Events
- 1769 – The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
- 1771 – Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
- 1798 – The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
- 1943 – In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a black American.
- 1965 – Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
- 1969 – The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.