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.
1798 1st direct federal tax on the states-on dwellings, land & slaves
1789 Bastille Day – The Bastille, a fortress in Paris used to hold political prisoners, is stormed by a mob.
1798 The Sedition Act which prohibits “false, scandalous & malicious” 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
1881 Billy the Kid was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
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.
1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1945 American battleships and cruisers bombard the Japanese home islands for the first time.
1951 The George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, Missouri becomes the first national park honoring an African American.
1958 Coup in Iraq. 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.
1981 The All-Star Game was postponed because of a 33-day-old baseball players strike. The game was held on August 9.
1985 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1986 Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
2003 Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio.
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, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
