The French Revolution (1787–99) signaled the end of the ancien régime in France. French revolutionaries rose on this day, occupied the Tuileries Palace, where Louis XVI was living, and imprisoned the royal family in the Temple.
| 1914: | | France declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I. |
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| 1846: | | The Smithsonian Institution was founded in Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Congress with funds bequeathed by English scientist James Smithson. |
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| 1815: | | Ganioda'yo, Seneca chief and founder of the Handsome Lake cult, died in Onondaga, New York. |
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