1789 Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the fall of the Bastille Prison
1798 US Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against government
1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie
1933 All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany
1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz, starting the open source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds release "Linux" soon afterwards
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