On This Day:
Monday July 14, 2014 This is the 195th day of the year, with 170 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Asia, cultures and religions Asia is the birthplace of all the world's major religions -- but only Christianity developed outside Asia. Asia is the birthplace of the world's earliest civilizations such as Sumer, China, and India -- largely isolated from each other and the rest of the world by barriers of deserts, mountains, and oceans -- so these cultures developed independently for thousands of years.
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 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, 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.
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