History Today
In 1789, Parisians stormed the Bastille prison and freed seven prisoners, marking the beginning of the French Revolution.
In 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, defamatory, or malicious writings about the U.S. government.
In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., aka “Billy the Kid,” was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in what is now Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912.
In 1933, all German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed by the Nazi German government.
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In 1960, Jane Goodall, then 26 years old, first arrived at the Gombe River Conservation Area in what is now Tanzania and began studying the wild chimpanzees that lived there.
In 2004, the Senate rejected a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (48 senators voted to advance the bill, 12 shy of the 60 needed, with 50 voting to block it).
In 2009, notorious financier Bernard Madoff was incarcerated at Butner Federal Prison in North Carolina to serve a 150-year sentence for running a massive Ponzi scheme. (Madoff died in prison in April 2021.)
In 2013, thousands of demonstrators across the United States protested the previous day’s decision by a Florida jury to acquit George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
In 2015, world powers and Iran reached an agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for easing international sanctions.
In 2016, Bastille Day celebrations in the French Riviera city of Nice were hit by terrorism when a truck plowed into crowds of celebraters, killing 86 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants, and the driver was shot dead by police.
In 2020, researchers reported that the first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the United States, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., boosted people’s immune systems, as scientists had hoped.
The Scottish National Galleries announced in 2022 that a previously unknown self-portrait had been discovered behind another painting by Vincent van Gogh after experts x-rayed the canvas ahead of its next exhibition.
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Former football player and actor Rosie Greer is 92 years old.
Actor Vincent Pastore (TV’s “The Sopranos”) is 78 years old.
Music executive Tommy Mottola is 76 years old.
Film producer Scott Rudin is 66 years old.
Singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo is 64 years old.
Singer and guitarist Kyle Gass (Tenacious D) is 64 years old.
Actress Jane Lynch is 64 years old.
Actor Jackie Earle Haley is 63 years old.
Actor Matthew Fox is 58 years old.
Rock singer and musician Tanya Donnelly is 58 years old.
Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Ross Rebagliati is 53 years old.
Country singer Jamey Johnson is 49 years old.
Hip-hop musician Taboo (Black Eyed Peas) is 49 years old.
Actress, writer and producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge is 39 years old.
Rock singer Dan Reynolds (Imagine Dragons) is 37 years old.
Mixed martial artist Conor McGregor is 36 years old.
