July 14 - This Day in History

July 14 : General Interest
1789 : French revolutionaries storm Bastille

Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs.. read more


American Revolution
1798 : Sedition Act becomes federal law
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sedition-act-becomes-federal-law


Automotive
1986 : "Father of Streamlining" Raymond Loewy dies
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/father-of-streamlining-raymond-loewy-dies


Civil War
1864 : Confederates defeated at the Battle of Tupelo
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-tupelo-mississippi


Cold War
1963 : Rupture between USSR and China grows worse
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rupture-between-ussr-and-china-grows-worse


Crime
1881 : Billy the Kid is shot to death
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/billy-the-kid-is-shot-to-death

1966 : A mass murderer leaves eight women dead
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-mass-murderer-leaves-eight-women-dead


Disaster
2003 : Claudette crashes into Texas coast
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/claudette-crashes-into-texas-coast


General Interest
1099 : Jerusalem captured in First Crusade
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jerusalem-captured-in-first-crusade


Hollywood
1918 : Influential Swedish director Ingmar Bergman born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/influential-swedish-director-ingmar-bergman-born


Literary
1811 : Byron returns to England after a two-year trip
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/byron-returns-to-england-after-a-two-year-trip


Music
1995 : A revolutionary new technology is christened "MP3"
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-revolutionary-new-technology-is-christened-quotmp3quot


Old West
1882 : Gunfighter John Ringo found dead
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gunfighter-john-ringo-found-dead


Presidential
1913 : Future President Gerald R. Ford is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/future-president-gerald-r-ford-is-born


Sports
1968 : Hank Aaron hits 500th homer
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hank-aaron-hits-500th-homer


Vietnam War
1964 : North Vietnamese regulars are fighting in South Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/north-vietnamese-regulars-are-fighting-in-south-vietnam

1968 : Clifford visits South Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/clifford-visits-south-vietnam


World War I
1918 : Quentin Roosevelt killed
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/quentin-roosevelt-killed


World War II
1974 : Carl Spaatz dies
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carl-spaatz-dies