1789-07-14

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This Day in History: 1789-07-14

(July 14, 1789)
A mob stormed the Bastille in Paris on this day in 1789, demanding the armaments and munitions housed there. When the guards resisted, the crowd took control of the jail, symbolising the end of the ancien régime.