Today in History - History - July 14th

1976Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC

198641st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes

1853Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)

1968Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick

1946Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs

199146th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon

1988Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place

1938Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifesto

1870The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year

1987All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)

1910William Hanna, Melrose New Mexico, animator (Hanna-Barbera- Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo), (d. 2001)

1913Gerald R Ford, [Leslie King], Omaha Nebraska, 41st US VP (1973-74)/38th US President (R-1974-77), (d. 2006)

1868Gertrude Bell, Durham, British archaeologist (Desert & The Sown), (d. 1926)

1918Ingmar Bergman, Uppsala Sweden, director (Cries & Whispers)

19301st Filippino President Emilio Aguinaldo (61) weds second wife Maria Agoncillo (51) at Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan

1820British PM Robert Peel (32) weds Sir John Floyd's daughter Julia at St George's, Hanover Square in London

2005Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician and writer who founded the first modern hospice, dies of cancer at 87

1881Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?)