On this day :

1789 French revolutionaries storm Bastille, 1798 Sedition Act becomes federal law, 1986 Father of Streamlining Raymond Loewy dies, 1864 Confederates defeated at the Battle of Tupelo, 1963 Rupture between USSR and China grows worse, 1881 Billy the Kid is shot to death, 1966 A mass murderer leaves eight women dead, 2003 Claudette crashes into Texas coast, 1099 Jerusalem captured in First Crusade, 1918 Influential Swedish director Ingmar Bergman born, 1811 Byron returns to England after a twoyear trip, 1995 A revolutionary new technology is christened MP3, 1882 Gunfighter John Ringo found dead, 1913 Future President Gerald R Ford is born, 1968 Hank Aaron hits 500th homer, 1964 North Vietnamese regulars are fighting in South Vietnam, 1968 Clifford visits South Vietnam, 1918 Quentin Roosevelt killed, 1974 Carl Spaatz dies,