On this day in history - Today, July, 14

Today in History

• 2016 Terrorist Attack in Nice, France Kills 85 and Injures More than 300 People

  The attack took place during Bastille Day Celebrations, when a 19-tonne truck was driven into the cr

• 1965 Mars flyby of Mariner 4

  The American spacecraft became the first to take pictures of another planet and send them back to Ea

• 1958 Coup in Iraq

  Abd al-Karim Qasim, a brigadier in the Iraqi Army staged a military coup in Iraq, overthrowing the H

• 1957 First female parliamentarian in the Arab world is elected to office

  Egyptian Rawya Ateya became the first woman to be elected to the National Assembly.

• 1789 Storming of the Bastille

  Bastille, a prison housing only 7 prisoners at the time, was stormed by a crowd calling for the clos