| 1798 |
Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government. |
| 1881 |
Outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias Billy the Kid, was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M. |
| 1912 |
Folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Okla.. |
| 1913 |
Gerald R. Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Neb. (His mother’s second husband later adopted and renamed him.) |
| 1921 |
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham, Mass., of killing a shoe company paymaster and his guard. (They were executed in 1927.) |
| 1933 |
All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed. |
| 1958 |
The army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy. |
| 1966 |
Eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory. |
| 1976 |
Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in New York City. |
| 1999 |
Race-based school busing in Boston ended after 25 years. |
| 1999 |
Major league baseball umpires voted to resign and not work the final month of the season. |
| 2003 |
Journalist Robert Novak identified Valerie Plame as a CIA operative in his newspaper column, citing two Bush administration officials. |
| 2004 |
The Senate voted 50-48 against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. |
| 1926 |
Harry Dean Stanton, Actor, turns 86 |
| 1930 |
Polly Bergen, Actress, singer, turns 82 |
| 1932 |
Rosey Grier, Football player, turns 80 |
| 1946 |
Vincent Pastore, Actor (“The Sopranos”), turns 66 |
| 1949 |
Tommy Mottola, Former music company executive, turns 63 |
| 1959 |
Susana Martinez, Governor of New Mexico, turns 53 |
| 1966 |
Matthew Fox, Actor (“Lost”), turns 46 |
| 1967 |
Patrick Kennedy, Former U.S. representative, D-R.I., turns 45 |
| 1970 |
Missy Gold, Actress, turns 42 |
| 1975 |
Tim Hudson, Baseball player, turns 37 |
| 1975 |
taboo, Hip-hop musician (Black-Eyed Peas), turns 37 |
| 1979 |
Scott Porter, Actor (“Friday Night Lights”), turns 33 |
| 1985 |
Darrelle Revis, Football player, turns 27 |
| 58 |
Cardinal Jules Mazarin 7/14/1602 – 3/9/1661
Italian-born French cardinal and statesman |
| 60 |
John Gibson Lockhart 7/14/1794 – 11/25/1854
Scottish critic, novelist and biographer |
| 69 |
Emmeline Pankhurst 7/14/1858 – 6/14/1928
English leader of women’s suffrage movement |
| 55 |
Gustav Klimt 7/14/1862 – 2/6/1918
Austrian painter |
| 92 |
Happy Chandler 7/14/1898 – 6/15/1991
American politician and baseball commissioner (1945-51) |
| 73 |
Pancho Barnes 7/14/1901 – 3/?/1975
American aviator and movie stunt pilot |
| 86 |
Irving Stone 7/14/1903 – 8/26/1989
American author |
| 55 |
Woody Guthrie 7/14/1912 – 10/3/1967
American folk singer and songwriter |
| 75 |
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson 7/14/1921 – 9/26/1996
English Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1973) |
James McNeill Whistler 7/14/1834 – 7/17/1903 American painter and designer.
