Today in History
Listings for Thursday, July 14, 2022.
Birthdays:
- 1912 Woodie Guthrie, folk singer, common man.
- 1913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976)
- 1918 Ingmar Bergman, film maker (Through a Glass Darkly).
- 1918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented the computer magnetic core memory
- 1923 Dale Robertson
- 1926 Harry Dean Stanton
- 1930 Polly Bergen
- 1932 Roosevelt Grier
Events:
- Alpha Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
- Bastille Day -- France
- 1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
- 1789 Citizens of Paris storm the (near empty) Bastille prison.
- 1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
- 1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
- 1865 1st ascent of the Matterhorn.
- 1953 first national monument dedicated to a Negro - GW Carver
- 1958 Iraqi army overthrows monarchy, led by Colonel Saddam Hussein.
- 1959 first atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass
- 1965 US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles
- 1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
- 1993 Slackware Linux releases 1.0 for 386/IDE and boots from 3.5" floppies.
That's all for today.
