Today is Wednesday, July 14, the 195th day of 2010. There are 170 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On July 14, 1960, British researcher Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Reserve in the Tanganyika Territory (in present-day Tanzania) to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
ON THIS DATE
In 1789, during the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.
In 1881, outlaw William Bonney Jr., also known as Billy the Kid, was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.
In 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, were outlawed.
In 1966, eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory.
In 2009, at her Senate confirmation hearing, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor pushed back against Republican charges that she would bring bias and a liberal agenda to the nation’s highest bench. Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff arrived at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina to begin serving a 150-year sentence.
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