Years ago

July 14, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, July 14, the 195th day of 2010. There are 170 days left in the year.

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On this date:

1789: During the French Revolution, citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison and release the seven prisoners inside.

1798: Congress passes the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the United States government.

1881: Outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias “Billy the Kid,” is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.

1933: All German political parties, except the Nazi Party, are outlawed.

1960: British researcher Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in the Tanganyika Territory (in present-day Tanzania) to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.

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1985: Youngstown will lose $525,000 in federal revenue sharing money if a congressional committee agrees to cut the program by 25 percent as part of the Reagan administration’s effort to slow federal spending.

Ohio supporters of an effort to win the General Motors Saturn project for the state say they won’t abandon their campaign, despite reports that GM has narrowed the list to Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee.

1970: A 9-year-old Conneaut Lake boy, Blair Hickson, is killed and his father and two other passengers are injured when their plane crashes about a mile south of Conneaut Lake.

Bandits armed with sawed-off shotguns and a pistol surprise nine patrons and a barmaid at the Golden Nugget, 2326 Hillman St., and escape with $500 from the cash register and the patrons.

A Youngstown police cruiser is damaged when a new Cadillac stolen from Barrett Cadillac drifts into it after the thief jumped from the car after being stopped at Elm Street and Illinois Avenue and the driver fled through nearby backyards. A second car stolen from the dealer is still missing.

1960: After John F. Kennedy wins the Democratic nomination for president, the Ohio delegation urges the selection of Stuart Symington of Missouri as his running mate.

Dr. Helen Berquist, a medical missionary in Karawa, is evacuated from the Belgian Congo Mission, her parents, Mr. And Mrs. Harry Berquist, are informed. Violence against Europeans in Leopoldville is increasing.

The Mahoning County Board of Elections meets with officials of Shoup Voting Machine Co. to discuss what should be done to avoid another debacle such as occurred during the primary election when more than half of the county’s 825 machines malfunctioned.

1935: The Mahoning County Board of Elections asks the Automatic Voting Machine Co. of Jamestown, N.Y., for the free use of one machine as a test before machines are purchased.

Two-year-old Joseph Petrek Jr. of New Middletown is in the South Side unit of the Youngstown Hospital with a badly injured leg after being caught in the grain binder being operated by his father.