Today is Wednesday, July 14, the 196th day of 2004. There are 170 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, July 14, the 196th day of 2004. 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 former 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 1904, author Isaac Bashevis Singer is born in Radzymin, Poland. In 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, are outlawed. In 1958, the army of Iraq overthrows the monarchy. In 1965, the American space probe Mariner Four flies by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet. In 1965, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. dies in London at age 65.
July 14, 1979: General Motors Corp.'s Lordstown passenger car assembly line will step up production of its compact cars even as other car assembly plants are slowing down, says plant manager Charles Abernethy.
Following a year-long battle with government statisticians, Campbell and Struthers have been tentatively declared eligible for special federal grants aimed at helping distressed cities attract new jobs and industry.
Mahoning County commissioners adopt a tentative 1980 budget of $17.4 million.
July 14, 1964: Mayor Joseph A. Vrabel says he will not call another special meeting on financing a new water treatment plant after City Council fails to act to prevent the loss of a federal grant that is due to expire.
Youngstown Mayor Anthony B. Flask and Police Chief John Terlesky discuss how to use a consultant's suggestion for improving the police department. Flask said many of the ideas were "Utopian" and that the survey by the International Association of Police Chiefs was not worth its $20,000 cost.
Ohio Republican Party leaders attending the national convention in San Francisco say they believe Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater could carry the state, though not, perhaps, by the 275,000-vote margin Richard Nixon had over John F. Kennedy in 1960.
July 14, 1954: Threats of serious grass and trash fires are mounting daily in the dry Youngstown area, firemen warn after extinguishing a $3,700 alley blaze near the Central YMCA and fighting a 40-acre grass fire for seven hours.
Owners of a condemned Brier Hill shack at 2013-19 W. Federal St. say "politics" is involved in the city's renewed action to force the six tenants out of that building while at least eight of the 30 other buildings condemned in the spring remain occupied.
Two young men and a young girl, traveling in a late-model black sedan, hold up the cashier at Skyline Drive-In Theater on Route 422 in New Castle, escaping with $159.
July 14, 1929: Hundreds of votes are expected to be challenged in the August primary elections in Campbell as a result of the filing of a demand that the name of Atty. Nicholas Petica Jr., candidate for the Republican nomination for city solicitor, be taken from the ballot on the ground he is a Democrat.
Brothers Ellwood Hundt, 12, and Chester Hundt, 10, of Sebring drown in a pond near town after Chester jumps into the water against the warning of his brother and other boys in the group. When he didn't surface, Ellwood jumped in to save him, while the other boys ran for help from nearby railroad workers. The workers recovered the boys bodies.
Thirty-one persons are arrested in vice raids ordered by Youngstown Mayor Joseph Heffernan, who tells Police Chief J.J. McNicholas and Assistant Chief William Engelhardt to "get busy or get out."