Reuters Historical Calendar - July 14

LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 14 since 1900.

1904 - Paul Kruger, South African politician, died in exile in Switzerland. He led the Transvaal during the 1899-1902 Boer War against Britain, which was seeking to extend its commercial interests after the discovery of gold.

1933 - The Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler banned all opposition parties in Germany.

1958 - Iraq's King Faisal was assassinated along with his entire household and his prime minister in a coup by army officers that led to Iraq becoming a republic.

1965 - Adlai Stevenson, twice Democratic candidate for the US presidency who lost to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, died in London.

1978 - Russian dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, a founder member of the Helsinki Group set up to monitor Soviet observance of human rights, was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

1998 - Richard McDonald, who pioneered the fast-food concept that evolved into McDonald's, the world's largest restaurant chain, died.

He was 89.

1999 - Peru captured Oscar Ramirez, alias Feliciano, the leader of the Shining Path rebel group.

1999 - Argentina and the Falkland Islands ended a 17-year standoff, resuming air links severed after the Falklands war.

2000 - A Miami jury ordered America's biggest cigarette makers, held responsible for injuring Florida smokers, to pay 145 billion dollar in punitive damages.

2002 - A deranged neo-Nazi fired a rifle shot in an attempt to assassinate President Chirac during France's Bastille Day parade.

The man was quickly subdued and the march continued.

2003 - Compay Segundo, the veteran Cuban singer and guitarist who shot from oblivion to international fame at the sunset of his life with the Grammy-winning record ''Buena Vista Social Club,'' died. He was 95.

2005 - US scientists announced that they had detected a planet outside our solar system with not one, but three suns, a finding that challenged astronomers' theories of planet formation.

**2006 - Tropical Storm Bilis came ashore causing floods and other disasters in southern and central China, leaving 482 dead.

**2006 - Jaroslaw Kaczynski was sworn in as Poland's prime minister by his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski.

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