What happened today, and who was born/died

BIRTHS
07/14/1912
  Woodie Guthrie, folk singer, common man.
07/14/1913
  Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976)
07/14/1918
  Ingmar Bergman, film maker (Through a Glass Darkly).
07/14/1918
  Jay Wright Forrester, invented the computer magnetic core memory
EVENTS
07/14/
  Alpha Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
07/14/
  Bastille Day -- France
07/14/1771
  Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
07/14/1789
  Citizens of Paris storm the (near empty) Bastille prison.
07/14/1850
  1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
07/14/1853
  Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
07/14/1865
  1st ascent of the Matterhorn.
07/14/1953
  first national monument dedicated to a Negro - GW Carver
07/14/1958
  Iraqi army Iraq overthrew monarchy, a Colonel Saddam Hussein.
07/14/1959
  first atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass
07/14/1965
  US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles
07/14/1987
  Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law

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