July 14th

2016
Terrorist Attack in Nice, France Kills 85 and Injures More than 300 People. The attack took place during Bastille Day Celebrations, when a 19-tonne truck was driven into the crowd. The attacker was eventually shot by the police.
2016 Nice attack
1992
386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz, starting the open source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds release "Linux" soon afterwards.
386BSD
1965
Mars flyby of Mariner 4. The American spacecraft became the first to take pictures of another planet and send them back to Earth.
Mariner 4
1958
A military coup overthrew the monarchy in Iraq, killing King Faisal II. General Abdul Karim Kassem becomes Iraq's leader.
Abd al-Karim Qasim
1957
First female parliamentarian in the Arab world is elected to office. Egyptian Rawya Ateya became the first woman to be elected to the National Assembly.
Egyptian parliamentary election, 1957
1946
Dr. Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care was published.
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
1941
6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp.
1933
In Germany, all political parties except the Nazi party were outlawed.
Enabling Act of 1933
1921
In one of the most controversial cases in U.S. history, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of two murders and sentenced to death.
Sacco and Vanzetti
1881
Billy the Kid was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
Billy the Kid
1798
Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a crime to publish false, scandalous, or malicious writing about the U.S. government.
John Nicholas (congressman)
1789
The storming and destruction of Bastille marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
Storming of the Bastille
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