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.
1536 France and Portugal sign the Treaty of Lyons, aligning themselves against Spain.
1789 Storming of the Bastille.. 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 US Sedition Act prohibits “false, scandalous & malicious” writing against government
1832 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie
1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1881 Billy the Kid was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
1891 The primacy of Thomas Edison’s lamp patents was upheld in the court decision Electric Light Company vs. U.S. Electric Lighting Company.
1914 Robert Hutchins Goddard patents a liquid-fuel rocket motor
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.
1933 Nazi Germany promulgates the Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health–the beginning of the Euthanasia program
1933 All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany
1941 Vichy French Foreign Legionaries sign an armistice in Damascus, allowing them to join the Free French Foreign Legion.
1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1946 Dr. Spock’s Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care was published.
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
1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
1985 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz, starting the open source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds release “Linux” soon afterwards
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
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
