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Today in History ~ July 14
Bastille Day-France
Events1099 - Jerusalem captured in First Crusade, after seven weeks of siege, and the massacre of the city's Muslim and Jewish population began. [H]
1420 - Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taborites beat Bohemia
1520 - Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernando Cortes vs Aztecs
1581 - English Jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
1682 - Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
1771 - Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
1789 - Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside. [H]
1795 - "La Marseillais" becomes French national anthem
1798 - 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land & slaves
1798 - Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the United States government.
1822 - Slave revolt in SC under Denmark Vesey/Peter Poyas
1845 - Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many
1850 - 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1853 - Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1853 - Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)
1861 - Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA with 40,000 troops
1861 - Naval Engagement at Wilmington NC - USS Daylight establishes blockade
1863 - Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
1864 - Gold is discovered in Helena, Mont
1865 - Whymper, Hudson, Croz, Douglas & Hadow 1st to climb Matterhorn
1868 - Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure
1881 - Outlaw William Bonney (a.k.a. Billy The Kid), was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico [H]
1914 - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)
1921 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's paymaster.
1927 - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1933 - Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
1933 - All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.
1938 - Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest
1940 - Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
1940 - Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
1941 - 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1945 - Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
1946 - Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published
1948 - Israel bombs Cairo
1950 - RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1951 - Citation 1st horse to win $1 000 000 in races
1952 - SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1953 - 1st national monument dedicated to an African American - George Washington Carver
1953 - Communist offensive in Korea
1957 - Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1958 - Col Saddam Hussein & Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
1959 - 1st atomic powered cruiser the Long Beach Quincy Mass
1960 - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
1961 - Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
1961 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
1962 - Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
1962 - Brave's Hank Aaron hits HR #500
1965 - The American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet.
1966 - Richard Speck kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
1969 - Futbol War between El Salvador and Honduras begins.
1972 - The State Department criticized actress Jane Fonda for making antiwar radio broadcasts in Hanoi.
1974 - Bundy victims Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA
1975 - EPCOT Center plans announced
1976 - Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC
1977 - US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1978 - Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky was convicted of treasonous espionage and anti-Soviet agitation, and sentenced to 13 years at hard labor. (Sharansky was released in 1986.)
1983 - Reps. Daniel Crane R Ill. & Gerry Studds D-Mass. admitted having had sexual relations with congressional pages.
1986 - Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1987 - Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1987 - Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
1987 - Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1988 - 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
1989 - 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres
1990 - West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived in Moscow for talks with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that were aimed at soothing Kremlin concerns about German unification.
1995: Under pressure from Congress, FBI Director Louis Freeh removed his friend Larry Potts as the bureau's deputy director because of controversy over Potts' role in a deadly 1992 FBI siege in Idaho.
1997 - Bomb in Algiers kills 21 & wounds 40
1999: Major league umpires voted to resign Sept. 2 and not work the final month of the season (the strategy collapsed, with baseball owners accepting the resignations of 22 umpires).
Birthdays Today
1486 - Andrea del Sarto(Vanucchi or di Francesco) Italian Renaissance artist (Recollets)
1602 - Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal, French 1st Minister (1642-61)
1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French theologian/Jansenist (Jesus-Christ Penitent)
1869 - Owen Wister, US, novelist (Virginian)
1901 - Gerald Raphael Finzi, composer
1903 - Irving Stone (Tennenbaum) (novelist: Lust for Life, Love is Eternal, The Agony and the Ecstasy)
1903 - Ken Murray (Don Court) (actor: Son of Flubber, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Marshall's Daughter)
1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Poland, Yiddish novelist (Enemies-Nobel 1978)
1906 - Tom Carvel, ice cream mogul (Carvels)
1910 - William Hanna, cartoonist: half of Hanna-Barbera team
1911 - Terry-Thomas (Thomas Stevens) (actor: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River)
1912 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, (folk singer, songwriter: This Land is Your Land, Hard Travelin', Union Maid, So Long It's Been Good to Know Ya; father of folk singer, Arlo Guthrie)
1913 - Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)
1913 - Gerald R. Ford (Leslie King, Jr.) (38th U.S. President; the first non-elected vice-president and president; one of four left-handed Presidents: others were James A. Garfield, Harry S Truman and Bill Clinton)
1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, missing labor leader
1917 - Douglas Edwards (TV's 1st evening news anchor: CBS; TV panel moderator: Masquerade Party; host: F.Y.I., The Eyes Have It, Armstrong Circle Theatre)
1918 - Arthur Laurents (playwright: Home of the Brave, Summertime, Gypsy, The Turning Point, The Way We Were, Anastasia)
1918 - Ingmar Bergman (Academy Award-winning director: Through a Glass Darkly [1961]; The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander)
1918 - Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory.
1923 - Dale Robertson (actor: The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, Melvin Purvis: G-Man, Kansas City Massacre, Son of Sinbad, Tales of Wells Fargo, J.J. Starbuck, Death Valley Days)
1927 - John William Chancellor, Chicago Ill, (radio/TV newscaster: NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor; commentaries: The Huntley-Brinkley Report; Chicago Sun Times, WMAQ radio, The Today Show)
1928 - Nancy Olson (actress: Sunset Boulevard, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, Snowball Express)
1930 - Polly Bergen (Nellie Burgin) (actress: The Winds of War, Cry-Baby, Escape from Fort Bravo; TV panelist: To Tell the Truth)
1932 - Rosey (Roosevelt) Grier (football; actor: Sophisticated Gents, The Big Push, The Seekers; minister)
1933 - Del (Franklin Delano) Reeves (singer: Slow Hand, Be Quiet Mind, The Girl on the Billboard, Looking at the World through a Windshield, The Philadelphia Phillies; films: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar, Forty Acre Feud)
1934 - Lee Elder (golfer: 5-time United Golf Association Champion, PGA winner: Monsanto Open [1974], Houston Open [1976])
1938 - Jerry Rubin, activist (Chicago 7)/stockbroker
1943 - Lynn Loring, NYC
1947 - Steve Stone (baseball: Cy Young Award winner: Baltimore Orioles pitcher [1980]; Chicago Cubs; sportscaster)
1948 - Earl Williams (baseball: Rookie of the Year [1971]: Atlanta Braves catcher)
1949 - Mike Lewis, football
1952 - Jerry Houser (actor: A Very Brady Christmas, Slap Shot, Class of '44, Summer of '42)
Famous deaths
1223 - Philippe II Augustus, King of France (1180-1223), dies at 57
1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Ital soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64
1881 - "Billy the Kid" (21 years old) was shot to death by Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County on a ranch near old Fort Sumner, New Mexico [H]
1958 - Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad
1958 - Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, murdered
1965 - Adlai Stevenson Jr, U.S. Ambassador to UN/pres candidate (D, 1952, 56), died in London at 65.
1966 - Eight student nurses were killed in the "crime of the century." Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and Valentina Paison; all nursing students at the South Chicago Community Hospital; were raped then strangled or stabbed to death by Richard Speck. One survivor, Cora Amurao, identified Richard Speck, and he was put in jail were he died in 1991.
1974 - Carl A Spaats, 1st chief of staff of USAF, dies at 83
1984 - Al Schacht, [Clown prince of baseball], baseball player, dies at 91
1986 - Raymond Loewy, US industrial designer, dies at 92
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