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Discover what happened on July 14: In 2019, A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.; In 2016, A man ploughs a truck into a...

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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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