On This Day:
Sunday July 14, 2013

This is the 195th day of the year, with 170 days remaining in 2013.

Fact of the Day: The Flintstones

The Flintstones was the first animated television sitcom created for adults and one of the first cartoons to air during prime time. Created by Hanna-Barbera Studios in 1960, the show was based on "The Honeymooners" television program. The original title for the show was "The Flagstones," but was changed to "The Flintstones" to avoid confusion with the characters in the popular "Hi and Lois" comic strip, the Flagstones.

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 and 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 theUnited States government. 
1867 - Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at a quarry in England.
1868 - Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, Connecticut patented the tape measure.
1914 - Robert H. Goddard of Worcester, Massachusetts patented liquid rocket fuel.
1933 - Germany outlawed all political parties except the Nazi Party.
1995 - The MP3 format was named.
2000 - A Florida jury ordered five major tobacco companies to pay smokers a record $145 billion in punitive damages.
2002 - During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unharmed.

Births

1834 - James McNeill Whistler, American-born painter, designer.
1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragist, founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.
1903 - Irving Stone (Tennenbaum), American novelist.
1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish author.
1910 - William Hanna, American cartoonist.
1911 - Terry-Thomas (born Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens), English comic actor.
1912 - Woody Guthrie, American folk singer and songwriter.
1913 - Gerald R. Ford (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.), 38th President of the United States of America (1974-77).
1917 - Douglas Edwards, American newscaster, TV's first evening news anchor.
1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie director.
1927 - John Chancellor, American radio/TV newscaster.
1932 - "Rosie" Roosevelt Grier, American football player, actor, and minister.

Deaths

1965 - Adlai Stevenson, United States political leader who helped found the United Nations.
1996 - Jeff Krosnoff, American race car driver.
1998 - Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur.