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Movie events on the 14th July

1789

Bastille falls. (Paris, France) (Carry On Don't Lose Your Head)

1882

Gunfighter John Ringo found dead. (Turkey Creek Canyon, Arizona) (Tombstone)

1902

A newspaper article titled "GRANDMOTHER MURDERED, GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER MISSING" is published. It is about the Ricks family. The newspaper mistakenly says Friday. (Rockland, Maine) (Offspring)

1912

Woody Guthrie is born. (Okemah, Oklahoma) (Bound for Glory)

According to a document, this is the last day to enter the Amateur Championship of the United States Golf Association and it is a Wednesday. (The Greatest Game Ever Played)

1913

Future U.S. President Gerald R. Ford (born Leslie L. King, Jr.) is born. (Omaha, Nebraska) (The Commission)

1918

Quentin Roosevelt is shot down and killed by a German Fokker plane. (Marne River, France.) (The Wind and the Lion)

1919

Clive Candy sends a letter to the Prisoners of War Committee in an attempt to locate Oberst Kretschmar Schuldorff. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)

1950

Pierre Perrault is born. (Illinois) (Source Code)

1958

A drive-in screening The Ten Commandments (1956) is featured on the cover of Life magazine. (New York City, New York) (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

1966

Eight student nurses are brutally murdered by Richard Speck at their group residence. (Chicago, Illinois) (Speck)

1969

Easy Rider is released. (United States) (I Love You, Beth Cooper)

1974

Carl Spaatz dies. (Washington, D.C.) (The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell)

1981

Chris Gardner completes a sale of his medical device for the first time in months. (The Pursuit of Happyness)

1986

Donny Berger appears on the cover of National Enquirer magazine. (That's My Boy)

1990

The Memorial Day Murderer is found. (Appalachian Mountains, West Virginia) (Tucker & Dale Vs Evil)

1997

Cyrus Grissom plans a skyjacking of a prison transfer plane, and is foiled by parolee Cameron Poe, who has been released for his daughter's birthday so he can finally meet her. (Con Air)

2000

Alec Nichols does research on a bank he wants to rob. (Los Angeles, California) (Rennie's Landing)

2003

Valerie Plame receives the Washington Post from her husband, Joe Wilson and reads that she has been exposed as an operative for the C.I.A. (Palisades, Washington, D.C. ) (Fair Game)

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