By The Associated Press
- Today is Wednesday, July 14, the 195th day of 1999. There are 170
days left in the year.
- On July 14, 1789, during the French Revolution, citizens of Paris
stormed the Bastille prison and released its seven prisoners.
- In 1798 Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime
to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the United
States government.
- In 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry relayed to Japanese officials a
letter from former President Fillmore, requesting trade relations.
- In 1881 outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias "Billy the Kid," was
shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.
- In 1933 all German political parties except the Nazi Party were
outlawed.
- In 1958 the army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy.
- In 1965 the American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending
back photographs of the planet.
- In 1965 U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. died in London at age
65.
- In 1966 eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a
Chicago dormitory. (Speck died in prison in 1991, a day short of his
50th birthday.)
- In 1976 Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at
the party's convention in New York.
- In 1978 Soviet dissident Anatoly (later Natan) Sharansky was
convicted of treasonous espionage and anti-Soviet agitation, and
sentenced to 13 years at hard labor. (He was released in 1986.)
- Ten years ago leaders of the seven richest nations opened a summit
in Paris, which was also celebrating the bicentennial of the French
Revolution with pomp and pageantry.
- Five years ago a tidal wave of Hutu refugees from Rwanda's civil war
flooded across the border into Zaire, swamping relief organizations.
- One year ago the city of Los Angeles sued 15 tobacco companies for
$2.5 billion over the dangers of secondhand smoke.
*Happy Birthday*
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- Actress Gloria Stuart is 89.
- Animator William Hanna is 89.
- Former President Gerald R. Ford is 86.
- Movie and stage director Ingmar Bergman is 81.
- Actor Dale Robertson is 76.
- Actor Harry Dean Stanton is 73.
- Actress Nancy Olson is 71.
- Actress Polly Bergen is 69.
- Former football player Rosey Grier is 67.
- Country singer Del Reeves is 67.
- Actor Jerry Houser is 47.
- Actor-director Eric Laneuville is 47.
- Movie producer Scott Rudin ("The Truman Show") is 41.
- Actor Jackie Earle Haley is 38.
- Actor Matthew Fox is 33.
- Rock singer-musician Tonya Donelly (Belly) is 33.
- Actress Missy Gold is 29.
- Rhythm-and-blues singer Tameka Cottle (Xscape) is 24.