On This Day July 14

1994
Hulk Hogan: The wrestling superstar admits to abusing steroids for 13 years to get big.

1993
Rap music killer: 19-year-old Ronald Ray Howard is sentenced to death for the 1992 murder of a state trooper. He claimed the anti-police rap music he was listening to made him do it.

1992
Clinton declines fetus: An Operation Rescue supporter tries to give an aborted fetus to presidential candidate Bill Clinton.

1989
License to Kill premiers in the U.S., 17th in the James Bond series, it starred Timothy Dalton as 007.

1972
First woman to head a major U.S. political party: Jean Westwood is named head of the Democratic Party.

1969
Money: The Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System announces that currency notes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 would be discontinued immediately due to lack of use. Although they were issued until 1969, they were last printed in 1945.

1938
Howard Hughes establishes a new around-the-world flight record, completing the trip in just over 91 hours, averaging 208 mph.

1908
D.W. Griffith: The American film legend makes his directing debut with the release of The Adventures of Dollie.

1865
First person to climb the Matterhorn, British explorer Edward Whymper scales the third highest peak in the Alps. Four of his seven member team died during the descent.

1789
French Revolution: The Bastille prison in Paris is attacked by a mob demanding weapons and the release of political prisoners, signaling the start of the war.

1932
Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier, American football player, actor. He was one of the L.A. Rams' Fearsome Four.

1918
Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director, producer. Film: Wild Strawberries (1957), The Seventh Seal (1957), and Persona (1966).

1918
Arthur Laurents, American Tony-winning playwright. Writings: Westside Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959).

1917 d. 1990
Douglas Edwards, American broadcaster. He was the first American network news TV anchorman (1948 CBS).

1913
Gerald Rudolph Ford (Leslie Lynch King Jr.), 38th U.S. President (1974-77) and 40th U.S. Vice-President (1973-74).

1912 d. 1967
Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie), American folk singer, composer. Music: This Land is Your Land and This Train is Bound for Glory.

1910 d. 2001
William Hanna, American Oscar-winning cartoonist. He and Joseph Barbera created Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? He also provided the screams and yelps of Tom in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

1904 d. 1991
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American Nobel-winning Yiddish author.

1903 d. 1989
Irving Stone, American author, The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961).

1894 d. 1979
Dave Fleischer, American cartoonist. He and his brother Max created Betty Boop and animated Popeye the Sailor.

1860 d. 1938
Owen Wister, American author. Writings: The Virginian (1902, which has been made into movies and a TV series).

1986 b. 1893
Raymond Loewy, French inventor, designer, the father of streamlining. He designed the U.S. Postal Service logo.

1881 b. 1859
Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), American juvenile delinquent. He was killed in New Mexico by County Sheriff Pat Garrett. He killed 21 men in his brief career.

1875 b. 1787
Guillaume Henry Dufour, engineer. He and Robert Marc Séguin designed and built the first permanent wire-cable suspension bridge (1823).

1827 b. 1788
Augustin Jean Fresnel, French physicist, pioneer in light theory.

1779 b. 1730
George Ross, American jurist, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

1223 b. 1165
Philip II, King of France (1180-1223) and responsible for building the Louvre in Paris.

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