JULY 14
1789:Parisians storm the Bastille prison, a symbol of the oppressive, faltering Bourbon monarchy headed by King Louis XVI. The capture of the fortress and release of its seven prisoners signals the start of the French Revolution and is commemorated as Bastille Day, a French national holiday.
1881: Henry McCarty—better known as Billy the Kid—is killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico, ending the young outlaw’s string of killings that made him one of the most wanted men in the West.
1921: Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted of armed robbery and the murder of two men at the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Mass. They are executed six years later, despite widespread doubts over their guilt and the violation of civil liberties.
1881: Henry McCarty—better known as Billy the Kid—is killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico, ending the young outlaw’s string of killings that made him one of the most wanted men in the West.
1921: Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted of armed robbery and the murder of two men at the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Mass. They are executed six years later, despite widespread doubts over their guilt and the violation of civil liberties.
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