Local history
50 years ago: July 14, 1976
The Altoona Area Transportation Study Committee was to consider a device called a "People Mover" between the downtown and the new Station Mall over and across the railroad tracks.
25 years ago: July 14, 2001
Citizens opposed to a cellular phone tower being built near Cross Keys flooded the Allegheny Township supervisors meeting, most being concerned about health issues from radio waves, despite a Federal Communications Commission ruling that they caused no health concerns.
10 years ago: July 14, 2016
Cambria County Judge Tamara Bernstein ruled that a Gallitzen ordinance prohibiting housing rentals to those convicted of drug offenses was unconstitutional.
-- Compiled by Tim Doyle
World history
Today is Tuesday, July 14, the 195th day of 2026. There are 170 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
Today in History: On July 14, 1789, in an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners held there.
On this date:
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In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias "Billy the Kid," was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner in present-day New Mexico.
In 1912, American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma.
In 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, were outlawed by the government of Nazi Germany.
In 1945, Italy formally declared war on Japan, its former Axis partner during World War II.
In 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall first arrived at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of the wild chimpanzees living there.
– The Associated Press