TODAY JULY 14 IN HISTORY

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LEAD STORY
French revolutionaries
storm Bastille , 1789
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Sedition Act becomes
federal law , 1798
AUTOMOTIVE
"Father of Streamlining"
Raymond Loewy dies,
1986
CIVIL WAR
Confederates defeated
at the Battle of Tupelo ,
1864
COLD WAR
Rupture between USSR
and China grows worse,
1963
CRIME
Billy the Kid is shot to
death , 1881
A mass murderer leaves
eight women dead , 1966
DISASTER
Claudette crashes into
Texas coast , 2003
GENERAL INTEREST
Jerusalem captured in
First Crusade , 1099
HOLLYWOOD
Influential Swedish
director Ingmar
Bergman born, 1918
LITERARY
Byron returns to
England after a two-year
trip, 1811
MUSIC
A revolutionary new
technology is christened
"MP3" , 1995
OLD WEST
Gunfighter John Ringo
found dead , 1882
PRESIDENTIAL
Future President Gerald
R. Ford is born, 1913
SPORTS
Hank Aaron hits 500th
homer, 1968
VIETNAM WAR
North Vietnamese
regulars are fighting in
South Vietnam, 1964
Clifford visits South
Vietnam, 1968
WORLD WAR I
Quentin Roosevelt killed,
1918
WORLD WAR II
Carl Spaatz dies, 1974