Today in History: Bastille Day in Paris

The following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 14:

1789 - Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris (now celebrated as France's national day).

1904 – Paul Kruger, South African politician, died in exile in Switzerland. He led the Transvaal during the 1899-1902 Boer War against Britain, which was seeking to extend its commercial interests after the discovery of gold.

1933 – The Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler banned all opposition parties in Germany.

1935 – Bastille Day in Paris.

1965 – Adlai Stevenson, twice Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency who lost to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, died in London.

1998 – Richard McDonald, who pioneered the fast-food concept that evolved into McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant chain, died. He was 89.

1999 – Peru captured Oscar Ramirez, alias Feliciano, the leader of the Shining Path rebel group.

2003 – Compay Segundo, the veteran Cuban singer and guitarist who shot from oblivion to international fame at the sunset of his life with the Grammy-winning record “Buena Vista Social Club,” died. He was 95.

2005 – U.S. scientists announced that they had detected a planet outside our solar system with not one, but three suns, a finding that challenged astronomers’ theories of planet formation.

2006 – Jaroslaw Kaczynski was sworn in as Poland’s prime minister by his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski.

2006 – Israeli jets fire at Lebanon’s Zahrani bridge.

2012 – Oregon pair attempt to break world record for longest two-man cluster balloon flight.

(Reuters)