Bastille Day
France's national day, commemorating the storming of the Bastille in 1789. Military parades on the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Eiffel Tower, and municipal dances across the country.
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- Culture
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Franceofficial
Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2016
A man deliberately drove a truck into crowds in Nice, France, resulting in 86 deaths.- 2019A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.
- 2016A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.
- 2015NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.