Jul 14
Bastille Day (1789) On this date, July 14, 1789, French citizens stormed and destroyed the hated Bastille prison in Paris, ending a symbol of the human rights abuses by King Louis XVI and beginning the French Revolution. Bastille means “bastion” or “castle.” The destruction of the Bastille marked the end of absolute monarchy in France, …
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Jul 14
James McNeill Whistler (1833) It was on this date, July 14, 1833, that American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. His father was an Army Major and Whistler himself was educated at West Point, from which he was dismissed. His Arrangement in Grey and Black (1871), better known as Whistler’s Mother, …
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Jul 14
John Chancellor (1927) It was on this date, July 14, 1927, that American news reporter, anchor, and NBC commentator John Chancellor was born in Chicago, Illinois. A high school drop-out, Chancellor got his first job as a copy boy at the Chicago Sun-Times. From there his assignments extended from the 1957 desegregation of Central High …
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