July 14
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 writings about the U.S. government.
1881 - Outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias Billy the Kid, was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, 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 later adopted and renamed him.)
1921 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham, Mass., of killing a shoe company paymaster and his guard. (They were executed in 1927.)
1933 - In Germany, all political parties except the Nazi party were outlawed.
1945 - Italy formally 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 first published.
1958 - A military coup overthrew the monarchy in Iraq, killing King Faisal II. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem becomes Iraq'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.)
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 (nees) 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 - 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
22 - Maia Reficco (actress)
27 - Jasmine Brown (model)
28 - Alexis Sky (model)
30 - Kylie Rae Hall (model)
33 - Alisha Wainwright (actress)
34 - Conor McGregor (MMA fighter)
35 - Dan Reynolds (singer)
35 - Sara Canning (actress)
36 - Peta Murgatroyd (dancer)
36 - Dan Smith (singer)
37 - Phoebe Waller-Bridge (actress)
43 - Scott Porter (actor)
44 - Roger Clark (actor)
46 - Dorit Kemsley (reality star)
47 - Jamey Johnson (singer)
52 - Missy Gold (actress)
56 - Tanya Donelly (singer)
56 - Matthew Fox (actor)
61 - Jackie Earle Haley (actor)
62 - Jane Lynch (actress)
70 - Stan Shaw (actor)
70 - Eric Laneuville (actor)
70 - Jerry Houser (actor)
74 - Tommy Mottola (music executive)
76 - Vincent Pastore (actor)
90 - Rosey Grier (football player/actor)
94 - Nancy Olson (actress)
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Today in Sports History - July 14
1934 - The New York Times declares that Babe Ruth's mark of 700 career home runs will "stand for all time."
1967 - Eddie Mathews (Houston Astros) hit his 500th career home run.
1968 - Hank Aaron (Atlanta Braves) hit his 500th career home run.
1969 - President Richard 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 - MLB renames its Rookie of the Year award 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.
1999 - MLB umpires voted to resign and not work the final month of the regular season.
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 writings about the U.S. government.
1881 - Outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias Billy the Kid, was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, 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 later adopted and renamed him.)
1921 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham, Mass., of killing a shoe company paymaster and his guard. (They were executed in 1927.)
1933 - In Germany, all political parties except the Nazi party were outlawed.
1945 - Italy formally 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 first published.
1958 - A military coup overthrew the monarchy in Iraq, killing King Faisal II. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem becomes Iraq'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.)
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 (nees) 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 - 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
22 - Maia Reficco (actress)
27 - Jasmine Brown (model)
28 - Alexis Sky (model)
30 - Kylie Rae Hall (model)
33 - Alisha Wainwright (actress)
34 - Conor McGregor (MMA fighter)
35 - Dan Reynolds (singer)
35 - Sara Canning (actress)
36 - Peta Murgatroyd (dancer)
36 - Dan Smith (singer)
37 - Phoebe Waller-Bridge (actress)
43 - Scott Porter (actor)
44 - Roger Clark (actor)
46 - Dorit Kemsley (reality star)
47 - Jamey Johnson (singer)
52 - Missy Gold (actress)
56 - Tanya Donelly (singer)
56 - Matthew Fox (actor)
61 - Jackie Earle Haley (actor)
62 - Jane Lynch (actress)
70 - Stan Shaw (actor)
70 - Eric Laneuville (actor)
70 - Jerry Houser (actor)
74 - Tommy Mottola (music executive)
76 - Vincent Pastore (actor)
90 - Rosey Grier (football player/actor)
94 - Nancy Olson (actress)
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Today in Sports History - July 14
1934 - The New York Times declares that Babe Ruth's mark of 700 career home runs will "stand for all time."
1967 - Eddie Mathews (Houston Astros) hit his 500th career home run.
1968 - Hank Aaron (Atlanta Braves) hit his 500th career home run.
1969 - President Richard 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 - MLB renames its Rookie of the Year award 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.
1999 - MLB umpires voted to resign and not work the final month of the regular season.
