July 14
Today is the 195th day of 2021, there are 170 days left in the year.
1789 - The storming and destruction of the Bastille marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
1798 - Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government.
1865 - The Matterhorn, straddling Italy and Switzerland, was summited as a seven-member rope party led by British climber Edward Whymper reached the peak. (Four members of the party fell to their deaths during their descent; Whymper and two guides survived.)
1881 - Billy the Kid was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
1913 - Gerald R. Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska. (His mother's second husband adopted and renamed him.)
1914 - Scientist Robert H. Goddard received a U.S. patent for a liquid-fueled rocket apparatus.
1921 - In one of the most controversial cases in U.S. history, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of two murders and sentenced to death in Dedham, Massachusetts. (They were executed in 1927.)
1933 - In Germany, all political parties except the Nazi party were outlawed.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure providing funds for a national monument honoring scientist George Washington Carver; the monument was built at Carver's birthplace near Diamond, Missouri.
1945 - Italy declared war on Japan, its former Axis partner during World War II.
1946 - Dr. Benjamin Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care was published.
1958 - A military coup overthrew the monarchy in Iraq, killing King Faisal II. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem became the country's new leader.
1965 - The American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet.
1966 - Eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory.
1976 - Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.
1980 - The Republican National Convention opened in Detroit, where nominee-apparent Ronald Reagan told a welcoming rally he and his supporters were determined to "make America great again."
1999 - Race-based school busing in Boston ended after 25 years.
2003 - Journalist Robert Novak identified Valerie Plame as a CIA operative in his newspaper column, citing two Bush administration officials.
2004 - The U.S. Senate voted 50-48 against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
2009 - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff arrived at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina to begin serving a 150-year sentence for his massive Ponzi scheme. (Madoff died in prison in April 2021.)
2014 - The Church of England voted overwhelmingly in favor of allowing women to become bishops.
2015 - World powers and Iran struck a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
2016 - Terror struck Bastille Day celebrations in the French Riviera city of Nice as a large truck plowed into a festive crowd, killing 86 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State extremists; the driver was shot dead by police.
2020 - Researchers reported that the first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems as scientists had hoped; the vaccine was developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.
2020 - A Confederate monument that had long been a divisive symbol at the University of Mississippi was removed from a prominent spot on the Oxford campus and taken to a Civil War cemetery in a secluded area.
2020 - The federal government carried out its first execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection Daniel Lewis Lee, who’d been convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.
Birthdays
21 - Maia Reficco (actress)
26 - Jasmine Brown (model)
27 - Alexis Sky (model)
33 - Conor McGregor (MMA fighter)
34 - Dan Reynolds (singer)
34 - Sara Canning (actress)
35 - Peta Murgatroyd (dancer)
35 - Dan Smith (singer)
36 - Phoebe Waller-Bridge (actress)
42 - Scott Porter (actor)
46 - Jamey Johnson (country singer)
51 - Missy Gold (actress)
55 - Matthew Fox (actor)
61 - Jane Lynch (actress)
69 - Stan Shaw (actor)
69 - Eric Laneuville (actor)
69 - Jerry Houser (actor)
73 - Tommy Mottola (music executive)
75 - Vincent Pastore (actor)
89 - Rosey Grier (actor/football player)
93 - Nancy Olson (actress)
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Today in Sports History - July 14
1967 - Eddie Mathews (Houston Astros) hit his 500th career home run.
1968 - Hank Aaron (Atlanta Braves) hit his 500th career home run.
1969 - President Nixon signed a baseball from the baseball Hall of Fame that had the signatures of nine other U.S. Presidents.
1981 - The All-Star Game was postponed because of a 33-day-old baseball players strike. The game was held on August 9.
1987 - Baseball's Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson.
1988 - Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies hits his 537th career home run to move past Mickey Mantle into seventh place on the all-time list.
1996 - New York Yankees closer John Wetteland sets MLB record with 24 consecutive saves.
1999 - Major League Baseball umpires voted to resign and not work the final month of the season.
2011 - A federal judge in Washington, D.C. declared a mistrial in baseball star Roger Clemens’ perjury trial over inadmissible evidence shown to jurors. (Clemens, who was accused of lying under oath to Congress when he denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs during his career, was acquitted in a retrial.)
Today is the 195th day of 2021, there are 170 days left in the year.
1789 - The storming and destruction of the Bastille marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
1798 - Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government.
1865 - The Matterhorn, straddling Italy and Switzerland, was summited as a seven-member rope party led by British climber Edward Whymper reached the peak. (Four members of the party fell to their deaths during their descent; Whymper and two guides survived.)
1881 - Billy the Kid was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
1913 - Gerald R. Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska. (His mother's second husband adopted and renamed him.)
1914 - Scientist Robert H. Goddard received a U.S. patent for a liquid-fueled rocket apparatus.
1921 - In one of the most controversial cases in U.S. history, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of two murders and sentenced to death in Dedham, Massachusetts. (They were executed in 1927.)
1933 - In Germany, all political parties except the Nazi party were outlawed.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure providing funds for a national monument honoring scientist George Washington Carver; the monument was built at Carver's birthplace near Diamond, Missouri.
1945 - Italy declared war on Japan, its former Axis partner during World War II.
1946 - Dr. Benjamin Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care was published.
1958 - A military coup overthrew the monarchy in Iraq, killing King Faisal II. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem became the country's new leader.
1965 - The American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet.
1966 - Eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory.
1976 - Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.
1980 - The Republican National Convention opened in Detroit, where nominee-apparent Ronald Reagan told a welcoming rally he and his supporters were determined to "make America great again."
1999 - Race-based school busing in Boston ended after 25 years.
2003 - Journalist Robert Novak identified Valerie Plame as a CIA operative in his newspaper column, citing two Bush administration officials.
2004 - The U.S. Senate voted 50-48 against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
2009 - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff arrived at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina to begin serving a 150-year sentence for his massive Ponzi scheme. (Madoff died in prison in April 2021.)
2014 - The Church of England voted overwhelmingly in favor of allowing women to become bishops.
2015 - World powers and Iran struck a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
2016 - Terror struck Bastille Day celebrations in the French Riviera city of Nice as a large truck plowed into a festive crowd, killing 86 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State extremists; the driver was shot dead by police.
2020 - Researchers reported that the first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems as scientists had hoped; the vaccine was developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.
2020 - A Confederate monument that had long been a divisive symbol at the University of Mississippi was removed from a prominent spot on the Oxford campus and taken to a Civil War cemetery in a secluded area.
2020 - The federal government carried out its first execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection Daniel Lewis Lee, who’d been convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.
Birthdays
21 - Maia Reficco (actress)
26 - Jasmine Brown (model)
27 - Alexis Sky (model)
33 - Conor McGregor (MMA fighter)
34 - Dan Reynolds (singer)
34 - Sara Canning (actress)
35 - Peta Murgatroyd (dancer)
35 - Dan Smith (singer)
36 - Phoebe Waller-Bridge (actress)
42 - Scott Porter (actor)
46 - Jamey Johnson (country singer)
51 - Missy Gold (actress)
55 - Matthew Fox (actor)
61 - Jane Lynch (actress)
69 - Stan Shaw (actor)
69 - Eric Laneuville (actor)
69 - Jerry Houser (actor)
73 - Tommy Mottola (music executive)
75 - Vincent Pastore (actor)
89 - Rosey Grier (actor/football player)
93 - Nancy Olson (actress)
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Today in Sports History - July 14
1967 - Eddie Mathews (Houston Astros) hit his 500th career home run.
1968 - Hank Aaron (Atlanta Braves) hit his 500th career home run.
1969 - President Nixon signed a baseball from the baseball Hall of Fame that had the signatures of nine other U.S. Presidents.
1981 - The All-Star Game was postponed because of a 33-day-old baseball players strike. The game was held on August 9.
1987 - Baseball's Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson.
1988 - Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies hits his 537th career home run to move past Mickey Mantle into seventh place on the all-time list.
1996 - New York Yankees closer John Wetteland sets MLB record with 24 consecutive saves.
1999 - Major League Baseball umpires voted to resign and not work the final month of the season.
2011 - A federal judge in Washington, D.C. declared a mistrial in baseball star Roger Clemens’ perjury trial over inadmissible evidence shown to jurors. (Clemens, who was accused of lying under oath to Congress when he denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs during his career, was acquitted in a retrial.)
