YEARS AGO FOR JULY 14

Today is Friday, July 14, the 195th day of 2017. 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.

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

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: Popeye the Sailor made his movie debut in the Fleischer Studios animated short “Popeye the Sailor.”

1945: Italy formally declares war on Japan, its former Axis partner during World War II.

1966: Chicago awakens to news that eight student nurses had been brutally slain during the night in a South Side dormitory.

2016: Terror strikes Bastille Day celebrations in the French Riviera city of Nice as a large truck plows into a festive crowd, killing 86 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State.

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1992: The Mahoning Valley delegation to the Democratic National Convention is united in its support of Al Gore as Bill Clinton’s running mate for president.

Two Mahoning County men are in jail in lieu of $36,000 bond on charges they robbed a McDonald’s restaurant on the Ohio Turnpike in Springfield Township.

Matthew Kollar, 25, is arraigned in the beating death of his father, Emil, 70, at the house they shared at 1310 Campbell St. on Youngstown’s South Side.

1977: About 75 people attend a meeting at Krakusy Hall of “Wake-up Youngstown,” a citizens group organized by Youngstown School Board member Joseph Rafidi to fight forced busing the city.

A clerical error at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics delays quarterly anti-recession payments of about $200,000 to 28 of Trumbull County’s 34 communities.

Joyce Tanner’s garage over an old mine shaft at 523 W. Hylda Ave. is razed, leaving a gaping 115-foot-deep hole. The owner will be billed $2,450 for the demolition work, but the state will pay the cost to fill the shaft, which is estimated at between $30,000 and $100,000.

1967: Sandra Sarosy of Campbell, 1967 Miss Warren, wins the talent contest at the Miss Ohio Pageant with her patriotic medley, “I’m a Yankee Doodle Sweetheart.”

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Elwyn Jenkins orders the city of Youngstown to pay Harrington, Huxley and Smith $12,000 in legal fees for a 1966 appropriation case involved in verdict of $291,508 verdict in favor the Youngstown Board of Education. The firm asked $69,000.

Boardman trustees purchase the old Boardman Transit Co. garage at Route 224 and Southern Boulevard, for $61,500 for use as an equipment garage.

Diane Donaghue, a case worker with the Catholic Service League, is awarded a $2,200 scholarship by the Youngstown Community Corp. toward study for a master’s degree.

1942: Dr. Sigfried Wilhelm Specht, metallurgical research adviser for Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. until two months ago, is held by the FBI on a presidential warrant taken against enemy aliens.

The Rev. E. W. Bloomquist, pastor of First Baptist Church of Clarksburg, W. Va., accepts a call to First Baptist Temple in Youngstown.

Roumanian Day at Idora Park nets $800 for Army and Navy Relief fund.