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Today in History: Tuesday, July 14, 2015
On July 14, 1789, during the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.
1798 Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing 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, N.M.
1912 Folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Okla..
1913 Gerald R. Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Neb. (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 All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.
1958 The army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy.
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.
1999 Race-based school busing in Boston ended after 25 years.
1999 Major league baseball umpires voted to resign and not work the final month of the season.
2003 Journalist Robert Novak identified Valerie Plame as a CIA operative in his newspaper column, citing two Bush administration officials.
2004 The Senate voted 50-48 against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Today’s Birthdays:
Actress Jane Lynch (“Glee”) turns 55 years old today.
Harry Dean Stanton, Actor, 89
Polly Bergen, Actress, singer, 85
Rosey Grier, Football player, 83
Vincent Pastore, Actor (“The Sopranos”), 69
Tommy Mottola, Former music company executive, 66
Susana Martinez, Governor of New Mexico, 56
Matthew Fox, Actor (“Lost”), 49
Patrick Kennedy, Former U.S. representative, D-R.I., 48
Missy Gold, Actress, 45
Tim Hudson, Baseball player, 40
taboo, Hip-hop musician (Black-Eyed Peas), 40
Scott Porter, Actor (“Friday Night Lights”), 36
Darrelle Revis, Football player, 30
Actor Jackie Earle Haley turns 54 years old today.