July 14 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for July 14
In the headlines today:

1999	Five tobacco companies are ordered by a Florida jury to pay smokers a record $145 billion in punitive damages.
1999	Actress Meredith MacRae (Petticoat Junction) dies in California at age 56.
1976	Jimmy Carter garners his party's presidential nomination at the Democratic national convention in New York.
1966	Eight student nurses in a Chicago dormitory are murdered by Richard Speck.
1965	Photos of the Martian surface are relayed back to Earth as the NASA space probe Mariner Four travels past Mars.
1965	US Ambassador and former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson dies in London, at age 65.
1958	The Iraqi army overthrows the ruling monarchy.
1940	Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are annexed to the USSR.
1933	Germany decrees illegal all political parties except the Nazi party.
1921	Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted in a Massachusetts court of killing two men in a shoe factory during a robbery.
1885	Sarah Goode becomes the first African-American woman to receive a US patent, for her folding cabinet bed.
1881	The outlaw Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney, Jr.) is shot and killed in Ft. Sumner, New Mexico.
1865	The Matterhorn is first climbed by Edward Whymper and his party. (Tragedy mars the descent, as Douglas Hadow, Lord Francis Douglas, and guide Michel Croz fall to their deaths.)
1798	The Sedition Act -- making it illegal to publish false, scandalous or malicious information about the US government -- is passed by Congress.
1789	An angry mob storms the Bastille prison, marking the start of the French Revolution (Bastille Day).