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What happened on July 14 in American history
July 14 is the 195th day of the year (the 196th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 7 stories from July 14 spanning 1769 to 2015. Among them: in 1769, Portolá leads a party north from San Diego; Monterey Bay is the prize; and in 1798, It is now a federal crime to publish "false or malicious" criticism of officials; Adams signs the Sedition Act.
1769Member story · 1776 Club
Portolá leads a party north from San Diego; Monterey Bay is the prize
Friar Juan Crespí and engineer Costansó ride along to map the coast as Spain moves to counter Russian traders pressing south.
1798
It is now a federal crime to publish "false or malicious" criticism of officials; Adams signs the Sedition Act
The last of four laws Congress has passed since June, the act caps a Federalist push to silence perceived French sympathizers working against the government.
1881
Garrett fires in the dark, and Billy the Kid is dead at twenty-one
The outlaw walks into Pete Maxwell's bedroom at Fort Sumner asking "¿Quién es?"; Garrett's first shot strikes just above the heart.
1911Member story · 1776 Club
Atwood lands on the White House lawn after flying 576 miles from Boston
Taft walks out to meet him; the pilot took his first flying lesson just three months ago.
1943
Roosevelt signs a monument into existence for Carver; no Black American has been honored this way before
The site near Diamond, Missouri, where Carver was born into slavery, becomes the first national monument built to honor a private citizen.
2003Member story · 1776 Club
Novak names a CIA officer; Wilson's wife is blown, her covert career over
Two senior administration officials are the columnist's sources, eight days after Wilson accused the White House of twisting Iraq intelligence.
2015Member story · 1776 Club
New Horizons skims Pluto at 14 kilometers per second; mountains and glaciers fill the first close images
Aboard the probe: a vial of ashes belonging to Clyde Tombaugh, who spotted this same world as a blur in 1930.
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