On This Day for July 14 - Bastille stormed by Paris mob, Woody Guthrie is featured, and more

Created: 2020-07-14 10:03 Updated: 2020-07-14 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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July 14

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Woody Guthrie

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1789

Bastille stormed by Paris mob

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2017: Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani —the first woman and first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal, cited for “her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces”—died at age 40. [Take our mathematics quiz.]

2016: In France's third major terrorist attack in 18 months, a man drove a truck through a crowd of revelers celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, killing more than 80 people and injuring hundreds. [Test your knowledge of French history.]

1969: Easy Rider was released in U.S. theatres, becoming a classic of the counterculture and propelling Jack Nicholson to stardom. [Sort fact from fiction in our film quiz.]

1968: American baseball great Hank Aaron hit his 500th career home run. [See where Hank Aaron ranks on our list of the 10 greatest baseball players of all time.]

1921: In a still-controversial decision, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, immigrant Italian anarchists, were found guilty of the murder of two men in Massachusetts. [Read more about this and nine other “trials of the century.”]