1789 – HAPPY BASTILLE DAY: 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
0982 – King Otto II and his Frankish army defeated in pitched battle with Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy
1223 – In France, Louis VIII succeeded his father, Philip Augustus.
1430 – Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, was handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
1456 – Hungarians defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Belgrade.
1536 – France and Portugal signed the naval treaty of Lyons, which aligned them against Spain.
1570 – Pope Pius V introduces a standardised Roman Missal (text of the Latin mass), a reform of the Council of Trent. Will remain unchanged for 400 years.
1581 – English Jesuit priest Edmund Campion arrested for sedition in Anglican England (later hung, drawn and quartered)
1698 – The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama
1714 – Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
1771 – Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junpero Serra.
1789 – HAPPY BASTILLE DAY – 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 https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/bastille-day
1791 – The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England
1798 – The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act. The act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
1832 – Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1853 – Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1881 – On a ranch near old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, the infamous Western outlaw known as “”Billy the Kid”” was shot to death by Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County
1891 – The primacy of Thomas Edison’s lamp patents was upheld in the court decision Electric Light Company vs. U.S. Electric Lighting Company.
1900 – European Allies retook Tientsin, China, from the rebelling Boxers.
1911 – Harry N. Atwood landed an airplane on the lawn of the White House to accept an award from U.S. President William Taft.
1914 – Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket-fuel.
1921 – Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company’s paymaster
1933 – All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.
1933 – Germany begins mandatory sterilization of people with hereditary illnesses
1940 – World War II: Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the 7th Army Corps consisting of British, Canadian and New Zealand troops.
1940 – A force of German Ju-88 bombers attacked Suez, Egypt, from bases in Crete.
1941 – Vichy French Foreign Legionaries signed an armistice in Damascus, which allowed them to join the Free French Foreign Legion.
1945 – American battleships and cruisers bombarded the Japanese home islands for the first time.
1946 – Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” was first published.
1951 – The George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, MO, became the first national park to honor an African American.
1957 – First female parliamentarian in the Arab world is elected to office, Egyptian Rawya Ateya became the first woman to be elected to the National Assembly.
1958 – Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation’s new leader.
1960 – Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
1965 – The American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, and sent back photographs of the planet.
1966 – In Chicago, Illinois, eight student nurses were killed in what was called the””crime of the century.”” Gloria Davy, Patricia Matusek, Nina Schmale, Pamela Wilkening, Suzanne Farris, Mary Ann Jordan, Merlita Gargullo, and Valentina Paison–all nursing students at the South Chicago Community Hospital–were strangled or stabbed to death by Richard Spec
1969 – Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, taking effect on July 20
1969 – Large denominations of United States currency, namely the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills, are officially withdrawn from circulation by the Federal Reserve System due to “”lack of use,”” leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating United States currency
1975 – EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
1977 – North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
1978 – Allen Ginsburg completes “Plutonian Ode” – blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell’s nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
1981 – MCLN bombs a popular cinema in Bangui, Central African Republic. Afterwards a declaration is issued, demanding withdrawal of French troops from the country
1981 – The All-Star Game was postponed because of a 33-day-old baseball players strike. The game was held on August 9.
1986 – Richard W Miller became first FBI agent convicted of espionage
1988 – Volkswagen’s automobile plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania – the first auto assembly plant operated by a non-American car manufacturer in the United States – closes after little more than a decade of operation. The plant built Volkswagen’s Rabbit model in its first six years, then produced the Golf and some Jetta models until its closing
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.
2000 – George Speight, the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with treason.
2001 – Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympics. It was the first time that the China had been awarded the games.
2002 – During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed
2012 – Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
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, The attack took place during Bastille Day Celebrations, when a 19-tonne truck was driven into the crowd. The attacker was eventually shot by the police.
2018 – More than 300 people now reported killed in protests against government of President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua
2018 – US President Donald Trump calls the EU a “trade foe” in interview with CBS ahead of meeting with Russian President Putin
2019 – First Ebola case on Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, city of 1 million, as toll of outbreak reaches 1600 victims
2019 – US President Donald Trump ignites racial controversy by tweeting four Democrat women of color “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”
2021 – Drug overdose deaths in the US rose 30% to record 93,000 in 2020 according to CDC
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
