Today is Tuesday, July 14, the 195th day of 2015. There are 170 days left in the year.

Today is Tuesday, July 14, the 195th day of 2015. There are 170 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: In an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, residents of Paris storm the Bastille prison and release the seven prisoners inside.

1865: The Matterhorn, straddling Italy and Switzerland, is summited as a seven-member rope party led by British climber Edward Whymper reaches the peak. (Four members of the party fell to their deaths during their descent; Whymper and two guides survived.)

1881: Outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias “Billy the Kid,” is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner in present-day New Mexico.

1913: Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., the 38th president of the U.S., is born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Neb.

1921: Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted in Dedham, Mass., of murdering a shoe-company paymaster and his guard. (Sacco and Vanzetti are executed six years later.)

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

Cartoon character Popeye the Sailor makes his movie debut in the Fleischer Studios animated short, “Popeye the Sailor.”

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a measure providing funds for a national monument honoring scientist George Washington Carver; the monument is built at Carver’s birthplace near Diamond, Mo.

1965: The American space probe Mariner 4 flies by Mars, sending back photos of the red planet.

1966: Eight student nurses are murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory.

1976: Jimmy Carter wins the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in New York.

1980: The Republican national convention opens in Detroit, where nominee-apparent Ronald Reagan tells a welcoming rally that he and his supporters are determined to “make America great again.”

1999: Race-based school busing in Boston ends after 25 years.

2005: Chief U.S. Justice William H. Rehnquist, ending a two-day stay in the hospital, pledges to continue working as long as his health permits. (Rehnquist died in September 2005.)

2010: An Iranian nuclear scientist who’d disappeared a year earlier heads back to Tehran, telling Iranian state media that he’s been abducted by CIA agents. (The U.S. said Shahram Amiri was a willing defector who’d changed his mind.)

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1990: Youngstown State University announces that it will close its 39-year-old ROTC program in 1991, leaving 73 cadets scrambling to other colleges if they want to complete the program.

Still reeling from his losing bout with the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. attaches an amendment to an appropriations bill requiring the IRS to train its employees “about the widespread abuse” of taxpayers by the agency.

Carol E. Franket, payroll-operations director at the Edward J. DeBartolo Corp., is elected president of the 7,500-member American Payroll Association, the first woman to have the post.

1975: Alex C. Hoyt, 93, prominent New Castle, Pa., banker and philanthropist, dies at his home after a short illness.

Two emancipated slaves, Henry and Rebecca Brantley, who spent the last year of their lives working for Portage County Probate Judge C.A. Reed, are memorialized in Maple Grove Cemetery in Ravenna with a monument that reads: “Fugitives from bondage, they came to Ravenna Aug. 28, 1962, where they lived honest and industrious lives.”

Christopher J. Budinsky of Austintown, a graduate of Ursuline High School, is commissioned a second lieutenant after graduating from the Air Force Academy.

1965: Negotiations fail to settle strikes that have closed Sawhill Tubular Products Co. and Wheatland Tube Co. plants.

The United Appeal of the Youngstown Area Community Chest and Red Cross sets a goal of $1,672,366.

Business has been so good that John Hynes, president of Hynes Steel Products Co. on Oakwood Avenue, announces that the company and its two affiliates will skip their usual two-week shutdowns for vacations.

1940: Salineville, the southern Columbiana County coal-mining village that was named after its salt wells, is observing its 101st anniversary with a five-day homecoming celebration.

Norman H. Davis, national chairman of the American Red Cross, praises Youngstown as the first city of its size to exceed its goal for European war-relief efforts. Youngstown raised almost $2,000 more than its $80,000 goal, with money still coming in.