TODAY’S HISTORY

1789: The French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille in Paris.

1881: Infamous outlaw Billy the Kid was shot to death by Sheriff Pat Garrett near Fort Sumner in New Mexico.

1965: NASA’S Mariner 4 began its flyby of Mars, taking the first close-up photos of the planet.

2015: NASA’S New Horizons probe became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto.

2016: A truck was driven into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, killing 86 people.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), painter; Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), singersongwriter/musician; Gerald Ford (1913-2006), 38th U.S. president; Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), screenwriter/ director; Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017), actor; Rosey Grier (1932-), football player/actor; Jane Lynch (1960-), actress; Matthew Fox (1966-), actor; Brian Selznick (1966-), writer/illustrator; Darrelle Revis (1985-), football player; Conor Mcgregor (1988-), mixed martial artist.

TODAY’S FACT: NASA’S New Horizons probe is currently nearly 5 billion miles from Earth, traveling at 32,000 mph through the Kuiper Belt.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1999, the Western Conference defeated the Eastern Conference 79-61 to win the first WNBA All-star Game.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.” — Woody Guthrie

TODAY’S NUMBER: $192.7 million — total price fetched for four paintings by Gustav Klimt at a Christie’s auction in 2006.

TODAY’S MOON: Between full moon (July 13) and last quarter moon (July 20).