This day in history

July 14

1789 – Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution.

1933 - The Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler bans all opposition parties in Germany.

1957 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.

2015 – Nasa's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.