Submarine HMS Simoon laid down.

ASW trawler HMS Quadrille commissioned.

U.S.S.R.: German troops reach the river Luga and now threaten Leningrad directly.
Oberst Erhard Raus's grenadiers, aided by an attached group of "Brandenburg" special-operation troops driving captured Soviet trucks and dressed in Russian Army uniforms, siezed the twin bridges over the Luga River at Porechye on 14 July,1941 - thus fording the last natural obstacle to Heeresgruppe Nord's ultimate goal of the capture of Leningrad. (Russ Folsom)

Smolensk: The Katyusha mobile rocket-launcher is used in action for the first time.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Ju-88 bombers attack Suez from Crete damaging harbour installations and ships.

SYRIA: Saint Jean d'Acre: The armistice terms are announced. The Vichy troops would be granted 'full honours of war', and even allowed to retain their personal arms; they would be concentrated under their leaders, and those who did not wish to join the Allied corps would be repatriated by units - thus rendering any free choice almost impossible; their equipment would be handed over to the British only; moreover, the Special Troops of the Levant, made up of Syrian and Lebanese volunteers, would purely and simply be placed under British command; there was no reference at all to Free France.

U.S.A.: Submarine USS Herring laid down.