Once Upon A Time – July 14 – 1850 – 1st Public Demonstration Of Ice Made By Refrigeration By Florida Physician John Gorrie

1789 Bastille Day – the French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris (now celebrated as France’s national day)

1798 US Sedition Act prohibits “false, scandalous & malicious” writing against government

1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie

1933 All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany

1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp

1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz, starting the open source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds release “Linux” soon afterwards

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1969 “Easy Rider”, directed by Dennis Hopper, starring himself, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, is released

Today in Music
1795 The French National Convention decrees “La Marseillaise” by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle France’s national anthem

Today in Sport
1964 51st Tour de France: Jacques Anquetil of France wins 4th consecutive Tour and is first to claim 5 titles

Dr Benjamin Spock’s “Common 1946 Sense Book of Baby & Child Care” published

1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive

Famous Weddings
1429 Duke Philip the Good (33) weds Isabella of Portugal (32) by proxy (he in Burgundy, she in Portugal)

1820 British PM Robert Peel (32) weds Sir John Floyd’s daughter Julia at St George’s, Hanover Square in London

1930 1st Filipino President Emilio Aguinaldo (61) weds second wife Maria Agoncillo (51) at Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan