Today is Tuesday, July 15, the 196th day of 2014. There are 169 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1099 - Three years after the First Crusade set out, the Christian army storms Jerusalem and puts its Muslim inhabitants to the sword.
1685 - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of King Charles II and claimant to the throne, is beheaded in England for his part in the rebellion to overthrow King James II.
1789 - France's King Louis XVI is awakened and told that his authority has collapsed with the fall of the Bastille.
1801 - France and Papacy sign agreement saying French clergymen are to be appointed by the government and merely confirmed by the Pope.
1822 - Turkish invasion of Greece begins, and Turks overrun peninsula north of Gulf of Corinth.
1857 - British women and children taken by Indians at Cawnpore in India are murdered.
1893 - The Matabele, Bantu-speaking people of southwestern Zimbabwe, stage uprising against rule of British South Africa Company. They are defeated and administered by the company in separate districts.
1909 - Mohammed Ali, shah of Persia, is deposed in favor of 12-year-old Sultan Ahmad Shah.
1945 - Italy declares war on Japan, its former Axis partner in World War II.
1948 - U.N. Security Council orders truce in Palestine.
1958 - United States dispatches troops to Lebanon at request of President Chamoun; South Africa resumes full membership in United Nations.
1965 - U.S. Mariner IV spacecraft sends to Earth first close-up photographs of planet Mars.
1974 - Officers in Cyprus favoring unification with Greece oust Archbishop Makarios from presidency. The coup leads to a Turkish military intervention.
1975 - United States' Apollo and Soviet Union's Soyuz spacecraft blast into orbit for rendezvous in space.
1987 - Taiwan ends 38 years of martial law to pave the way for multiparty elections.
1990 - Tens of thousands of people march to Kremlin walls to protest Communist Party control of Soviet government, army and KGB.
1992 - NATO says its warships will begin patrolling Yugoslavia's coast in an effort to tighten a U.N. trade embargo and step up pressure to end the fighting in Bosnia.
1994 - Tens of thousands of Hutus flee the Tutsi-led rebel advance in Rwanda, flooding across the border into Zaire in one of the greatest human flights in history.
1997 - Fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot to death outside his Miami Beach mansion by Andrew Cunanan, who kills himself a few days later.
1998 - Nigeria's military government orders the immediate release of at least 400 people imprisoned under the late military ruler Gen. Sani Abacha.
1999 - China declares that it has invented its own neutron bomb, making an unprecedented disclosure about its nuclear arsenal to counter and reject U.S. accusations of atomic spying.
2000 - In a rare display of force, U.N. troops launch a rescue mission that frees all 222 peacekeepers and 11 military observers trapped by rebels inside a U.N. base in eastern Sierra Leone.
2001 - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves her post after five years in office, longer than any other Bangladeshi leader.
2002 - A Pakistani judge convicts four defendants in the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
2003 - The White House projects a $455 billion federal budget deficit for the 2003 fiscal year, the largest ever in dollar terms.
2004 - The annual U.N. ranking of the global rich and poor shows that AIDS is pushing African nations further into misery while most of the world creeps toward higher development.
2005 - Investigators probing the U.N. oil-for-food program say they have found evidence of "gross mismanagement" and possible corruption by the U.N. agency that oversaw compensation for victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
2006 - Thousands of demonstrators demanding the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide march to Haiti's National Palace, pushing past riot police in a dramatic show of support for the exiled former leader.
2007 - Five Darfur rebel groups agree to join forces in a coalition called the United Front for Liberation and Development to push for a solution to the four-year conflict in the western region of Sudan.
2008 - Protesters storm past barricades near the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during a rally marking the 55th birthday of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
2009 - Israeli soldiers who fought in last winter's Gaza War say the military used Palestinians as human shields, improperly fired incendiary white phosphorous shells over civilian areas and used overwhelming firepower that caused needless deaths and destruction.
2010 - The Vatican revises its in-house rules to deal with clerical sex abuse cases, targeting priests who molest the mentally disabled as well as children and doubling the statute of limitations for such crimes.
2011 - Rupert Murdoch accepts the resignations of The Wall Street Journal's publisher and the chief of his British operations as the once-defiant media mogul struggles to control an escalating phone hacking scandal, offering apologies to the public and the family of a murdered schoolgirl.
2012 - Syria's 16-month bloodbath crosses an important symbolic threshold as the International Red Cross formally declares the conflict a civil war, a status with implications for war crimes prosecutions.
2013 - Human rights lawyers ask Nigeria's Federal High Court to issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's leader Omar al-Bashir, who is accused of genocide and war crimes, but he receives a warm welcome when he arrives in Nigeria for an African Union health summit.
Today's Birthdays:
Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmes van Rijn), Dutch artist (1606-1669); Marie Tempest, English actress (1864-1942); Walter Benjamin, German literary critic (1892-1940); Iris Murdoch, British writer (1919-1999); Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (1930-2004); Linda Ronstadt U.S. singer (1946--); Forest Whitaker, U.S. actor/director (1961--).
Thought For Today:
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods — Margaret Fuller, American journalist and social critic (1810-1850).
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