THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2016
Today is Thursday, July 14, the 197th day of 2016. There are 169 days left in the year.
1714 ― Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
1771 ― Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
1789 ― Bastille Day-citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison
1798 ― 1st direct federal tax on the states-on dwellings, land & slaves
1798 ― Sedition Act prohibits “false, scandalous & malicious” writing against US govt
1832 ― Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1845 ― 1st postmasters’ provisional stamps issued, NYC
1850 ― 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1853 ― Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1853 ― Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)
1865 ― 1st ascent of Matterhorn
1868 ― Tape measure enclosed in a circular case patented, AJ Fellows, Ct
1893 ― A Charlois discovers asteroid #370 Modestia
1911 ― 46” of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Phillipines
1914 ― 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)
1914 ― NL’s Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
1914 ― Robert Hutchins Goddard patents a liquid-fuel rocket motor
1916 ― St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston
1921 ― Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of
killing their shoe company's paymaster
1927 ― 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1934 ― C Jackson discovers asteroids #1325 Inanda & #1326 Losaka
1934 ― NY Times erronously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1934 ― Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
1940 ― Lithuania becomes the Lithuanian SSR
1946 ― Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted
Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs
1947 ― C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1747 Wright
1950 ― RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1951 ― 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 ― Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1953 ― 1st natl monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver
1953 ― NL beats AL 5-1 in 20th All Star Game (Crosley Field Cincinnati)
1955 ― 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
1956 ― Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1957 ― Soviet steamer “Eshghbad” sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1958 ― Iraqi army overthrows monarchy; republic replaces Hashemite dynasty
1959 ― 1st atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass
1960 ― Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane
asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
1961 ― Astro’s Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
1962 ― Brave’s Hank Aaron hits HR #500
1965 ― US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
1966 ― Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
1967 ― Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal
1967 ― Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
1968 ― Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
1968 ― Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
1969 ― “Futbol War” between El Salvador & Honduras begins
1970 ― NL wins 8th straight All Star Game, 5-4 in 12 innings (Riverfront, Cin)
1972 ― L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids #1959 Karbyshev & #2423 Ibarruri
1973 ― Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to the Everly Brothers
1974 ― Bundy victms Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA
1975 ― EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
1976 ― Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NY
1977 ― N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2286 Fesenkov, #2492 Kutuzov, #2509 Chukotka, #2607 Yakutia & #3213
1978 ― Anatoly Shcharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation Ginsburg completes “Plutonian Ode,” blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell’s nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
1983 ― Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
1984 ― STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
1985 ― Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
1985 ― Kathy Baker beats Judy Clark to win golf’s US Women’s Open
1985 ― Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1986 ― Jane Geddes beats Sally Little to win golf’s US Women’s Open
1986 ― NASA’s plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
1986 ― Paul McCartney releases “Press”
1986 ― Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1987 ― Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1987 ― Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
1987 ― NL defeats AL, 2-0 in 13, in 58th All-Star Game in Oakland, Calif
1987 ― Steve Miller’s star is unveiled on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
1987 ― Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1988 ― 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
1988 ― Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place
1989 ― The 16th James Bond movies “License to Kill” premiers
1990 ― “Howard Stern’s Summer Show” premiers on WWOR-TV