Today is Monday, July 14, the 195th day of 2003. There are 170 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, July 14, the 195th day of 2003. There are 170 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, during the French Revolution, citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison and release the seven prisoners inside.
In 1798, Congress passes the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the United States government. In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry relays to Japanese officials a letter from President Fillmore, requesting trade relations. In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias Billy the Kid, is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M. In 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, are outlawed. In 1958, the army of Iraq overthrows the monarchy. In 1965, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. dies in London at age 65. In 1966, eight student nurses are murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory. In 1976, Jimmy Carter wins the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York. In 1978, Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky is convicted of treasonous espionage and anti-Soviet agitation, and sentenced to 13 years hard labor. Sharansky is released in 1986.
July 14, 1978: Donald H. Hornickle of Boardman is hired as superintendent of the Springfield Local School District.
Cleveland is left virtually without police protection as the city's patrolmen defy a court order and continue a strike to protest the firing of 13 policemen by Mayor Dennis Kucinich.
U.S. District Judge Leroy J. Contie orders the Youngstown Board of Education to file additional information concerning its proposed faculty desegregation plan.
Youngstown City Council and the developer of the proposed IBM building on the city's East End are at an impasse over the appraised value of the land on which the building would be built.
July 14, 1963: Three teenage boys, in a miracle of survival that confounded experts, are found alive after spending nearly three days in a gas-ridden coal mine in Castle Shannon, a Pittsburgh suburb. Danny O'Kain and Billy Burke, 13, and Bobby Abbott, 14, are found about a half-mile from the mouth of the Castle Shannon Coal Co. mine.
"The General," famed locomotive of the Civil War, and a museum coach arrive in Youngstown under the sponsorship of the Railroad Community Service Committee of Cleveland and the Ohio Historical Society.
City folk are frowning over their browning lawns in the Youngstown District, but Mahoning Valley farmers are seriously concerned because of the drought continues, it will cost them thousands of dollars in poor yields and the cost of feed for cattle will rise over the winter months.
July 14, 1953: Mrs. Lydia Fahrion, sister of Otto F. Stephan of Youngstown, is one of 58 passengers presumed dead after a Transocean Air Lines DC-68 plunged into the Pacific Ocean on a flight from Guam to Oakland, Calif. She was making her way to Youngstown to visit her brother.
Prof. Ohio L. Reid, head of the division of social science at Youngstown College and a teacher for 55 years, is retiring July 18, on his 78th birthday. He was a former superintendent of Youngstown schools and taught at the college the last 19 years.
Ground is broken for the new First Methodist Church of Hartford, a $38,000 building that will be constructed at Route 304 and Route 7 in Hartford Center by the James Traical Co. of Niles.
July 14, 1928: The Knights of Pythias Hall at Front and Champion St. is sold at public auction for $76,000 to Paul Boucherle. The K of P bought the building in 1919 from the Baldwin estate for $80,000. It had been the site of the first free kindergarten in Youngstown.
David L. Gerrity, 9, of 242 Fairgreen Ave. dies at his home of injuries suffered July 4 when he was struck in the neck by a powder cap while playing with fireworks. His is the only death attributable to fireworks in the city this holiday.
A.B. Peckinpaugh, deputy inspector of the state bureau of accounting and supervision of public offices, rules that the Meander water district has no authority to increase pay for laborers on the dam from 30 cents to 40 cents an hour. The United Labor Congress in Youngstown reacts by saying it will push for 50 cents an hour.