This Day In History--July 14

1789 During the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.

1798 Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government.

1881 Outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias Billy the Kid, was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.

1933 All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.

1958 The army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy.

1965 Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, died at age 65.

1966 Eight women were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory for student nurses. (Speck was convicted and died in prison in 1991.)

1976 Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.

1999 Race-based school busing in Boston ended after 25 years.

1999 Major league baseball umpires voted to resign and not work the final month of the season.

2004 The Senate voted 50-48 against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

2007 North Korea told the United States it had shut down its nuclear reactor, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country's pledge to disarm.