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Today is Thursday, July 14, the 196th day of 2016. There are 170 days left in the year.

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

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 United States, is born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Neb.

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.”

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

1966: The city of Chicago awakes to the shocking news that eight student nurses have been brutally slain during the night in a South Side dormitory. The victims ranged in age from 20 to 24. (Drifter Richard Speck was convicted of the mass killings and condemned to death, but had his sentence reduced to life in prison, where he died in 1991.)

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

2015: World powers and Iran strike a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from international sanctions.

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1991: Canfield Township trustees say they hope Canfield council decides against withdrawing the city from the township. Mayor Francis McLaughlin says city residents should not pay taxes to the township, from which they receive no services.

Relatives of two Youngstown State University trustees who were also members of the athletics committee, have received jobs in the athletic departments under arrangements that bring Ohio ethics laws into questions.

Thomas A. Rossi, a 1983 graduate of John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, receives a doctor of medicine degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine.

1976: David H. Peters, 35, is in satisfactory condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital after being pulled from an 11-foot deep ditch that caved in during sewer-line construction at Routes 422 and 616 in Coitsville. Another A.P. O’Horo employee, Richard L. Varga, was released after treatment.

Pamela Rigas of Canfield is chosen Miss Youngstown Teenager during a pageant on Federal Plaza West. Runners-up are Linda Crum, Kandi Betzler, Renee Timko and Laura D’Angelo.

Mahoning County relief roles resumed a rise in June after a May dip, with the Mahoning County Welfare Department reporting a caseload of 9,089 covering 20,739 recipients. Most of the new cases were for aid to dependent children.

1966: Western Union Telegraph Co., a landmark at 42 Central Square for at least a half-century, will move to the Youngstown Office Supply Co. building at 211 W. Boardman St.

Canfield Village Council tables a zone change on West Main Street west of Cloverdale Drive that would have permitted Cook Chevrolet to build a new $200,000 showroom.

1941: The Mill Creek golf team maintains its unblemished record in the Public Links Division, and the Mahoning Country Club continues to shine in the private-course play of the Youngstown Golf Association.

The Young Democrats of Ohio have its statewide convention at Craig Beach. Former Youngstown Mayor Joseph Heffernan is the main speaker.

On stage at the Palace Theater on Central Square: America’s No. 1 singing trio, The Andrews Sisters.