Storming of the Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houël
- 1789 – French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille (pictured), freeing its inmates and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition.
- 1950 – In an early battle of the Korean War, North Korean troops began attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in Taejon, South Korea.
- 1958 – Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim.
- 1987 – Over 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain fell in a two-and-a-half-hour period in Montreal, causing severe flooding and over C$220 million in damages.
- 1995 – The MPEG-2 Audio Layer III audio coding format was given the filename extension by which it became known: MP3.
Edward White Benson (b. 1829) · William Hanna (b. 1910) · Constance Stokes (d. 1991)
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