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7-14-1789

Bastille Day celebrates the 1789 storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris, France, and the start of the French Revolution. The Revolution ushered in many reforms including the metric system in 1791 and that hotbed of 19th century mathematics, the Ecole Polytechnique, in 1794.

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Tuesday, July 14, 1789