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July 14

3 sourced moments from July 14 in history: Parisians stormed the Bastille, igniting the French Revolution (1789); Mariner 4's first Mars photos showed only 1% of the planet (1965); and New Horizons flew 7,750 miles from Pluto on July 14, 2015.

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3 things happened on July 14

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2015 Space · Solar System

New Horizons flew 7,750 miles from Pluto on July 14, 2015

The first Pluto flyby came within 7,750 miles of the surface, arrived a minute off a nine-year-old prediction, and was flown completely out of contact.

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1965 Space · Space Exploration

Mariner 4's first Mars photos showed only 1% of the planet

Mariner 4's 1965 photos made Mars look like a dead, Moon-like world. They also happened to capture some of its oldest ground.

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1789 History · Modern

Parisians stormed the Bastille, igniting the French Revolution

On July 14, 1789, a Paris crowd seized a royal fortress holding just seven prisoners and turned it into the symbol of a revolution.

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