Today in History:

On July 14, 1789, during the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.
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In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias ``Billy the Kid,'' was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.

In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham, Mass., of killing a shoe company paymaster and his guard. (Sacco and Vanzetti were executed six years later.)

Thought for Today: ``There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.'' - Rex Stout, American author (1886-1975).