History for July 14

History for July 14 - On-This-Day.com:
Emmeline Pankhurst 1858, William Leefe Robinson 1895, Irving Stone 1903


Woody Guthrie 1912, Gerald Rudolph Ford (U.S.) 1913, Ingmar Bergman 1918


1789 - French Revolution began with Parisians stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.


1798 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act. The act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.


1868 - Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure.


1914 - Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket-fuel.


1933 - All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.

1945 - American battleships and cruisers bombarded the Japanese home islands for the first time.


1951 - The George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, MO, became the first national park to honor an African American.


1958 - The army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy.