TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2015

Today is Tuesday, July 14, the 195th day of 2015. There are 170 days left in the year.

1789 ― Bastille Day; citizens of Paris storm Bastille Prison

1832 ― Opium exempted from federal tariff duty

1850 ― First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration

1853 ― Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan

1865 ― First ascent of Mt. Matterhorn

1950 ― RE Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea

1951 ― First color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)

1965 ― U.S. Mariner IV, first Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)

1966 ― Richard Speck rapes and kills eight nurses in a Chicago dormitory

1973 ― Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to the Everly Brothers

1987 ― Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law

1988 ― 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorporation of Nagorno-Karabak