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- On This Day: Thursday July 14, 2005
This is the 195th day of the year, with 170 days remaining in 2005.
Fact of the Day: Bastille
Originally built as a medi执行 fortress, the Bastille eventually came
to be used as a state prison. Political prisoners were often held
there, as were citizens detained by the authorities for trial. Some
prisoners were held on the direct order of the king, from which there
was no appeal. So, its fall in 1789 signaled the beginning of the
French Revolution. The Bastille became a symbol of the end of the
ancien r間ime. July 14, often called la f阾e nationale in France,
became an official holiday in 1880.
Holidays
France: Bastille Day.
Feast day of St Marcellinus or Marchelm, St Camillus de Lellis, St
Ulric of Zell, and St Deusdedit of Canterbury.
Events
1099 - During the First Crusade, Christian knights from Europe captured
Jerusalem began massacring the city's Muslim and Jewish population.
1789 - The French Revolution began as Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous
troops stormed and dismantled the Bastille, a royal fortress that had
come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs.
1798 - Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish
false, scandalous, or malicious writing about the United States
government.
1867 - Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at a quarry in
England.
1868 - Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, CT, patented the tape measure.
1914 - Robert H. Goddard of Worcester, MA patented liquid rocket fuel.
1933 - Germany outlawed all political parties except the Nazi Party.
2000 - A Florida jury ordered five major tobacco companies to pay smokers a
record $145 billion in punitive damages.
Births
1834 - James McNeill Whistler, American-born painter, designer.
1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.
1903 - Irving Stone (Tennenbaum), novelist.
1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish author.
1910 - William Hanna, cartoonist with Hanna-Barbera.
1912 - Woody Guthrie, American folk singer and songwriter.
1913 - Gerald R. Ford (Leslie King, Jr.), 38th US President (1974-77).
1917 - Douglas Edwards, TV's 1st evening news anchor.
1918 - Ingmar Bergman, movie director.
1927 - John Chancellor, radio/TV newscaster.
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