Bastille Day, Billy the Kid, and Linux

On This Day (July 14): Your quick daily trip back in time.

Fatih Taskiran
July 14, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

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

The French National Convention decreed "La Marseillaise" by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle as France's national anthem.

The US Sedition Act prohibits "any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the government.

First public demonstration of ice made via refrigeration, by Florida physician John Gorrie.

Billy the Kid is shot to death.

All non-Nazi political parties are banned in Germany.

386BSD was released by Lynne and William Jolitz, starting the open-source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds released Linux shortly after that.

Beauties arrested for defying Chicago edict banning abbreviated bathing suits on beaches, 1922

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