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{{*mp}} [[1965]] – The [[NASA]] [[spacecraft]] '''''[[Mariner 4]]''''' flew past [[Mars]], collecting the first close-up pictures of another [[planet]]. |
{{*mp}} [[1965]] – The [[NASA]] [[spacecraft]] '''''[[Mariner 4]]''''' flew past [[Mars]], collecting the first close-up pictures of another [[planet]]. |
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Revision as of 07:50, 30 January 2008
July 14: Bastille Day in France.
- 1789 – French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille (pictured), freeing its inmates and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition.
- 1798 – The Sedition Act became United States law, making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
- 1933 – Gleichschaltung: All political parties in Germany were outlawed, except the National Socialist German Workers Party.
- 1958 – King Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim.