TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JULY 14
1223 In France, Louis VIII succeeds his father, Philip Augustus.
1430 Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, is handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
1789 Storming of the Bastille, a prison housing only 7 prisoners at the time, was stormed by a crowd calling for the closure of the prison. The storming became the central event of the French Revolution.
1798 The Sedition Act prohibits “false, scandalous & malicious” writing against government is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1832 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie
1868 Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure.
1881 Billy the Kid was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
1911 Harry N. Atwood landed an airplane on the lawn of the White House to accept an award from U.S. President William Taft.
1921 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company’s paymaster
1933 Nazi Germany promulgates the Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health–the beginning of the Euthanasia program
1933 In Germany, all political parties except the Nazi party were outlawed.
1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1951 The George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, Missouri becomes the first national park honoring an African American.
1958 A military coup overthrew the monarchy in Iraq, killing King Faisal II. General Abdul Karim Kassem becomes Iraq’s leader.
1965 Mars flyby of Mariner 4 The American spacecraft became the first to take pictures of another planet and send them back to Earth.
1998 Los Angeles sued 15 tobacco companies for $2.5 billion over the dangers of secondhand smoke.
2015 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft became the first space mission to explore Pluto.
2016 Terrorist Attack in Nice, France Kills 85 and Injures More than 300 People
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