July 14th 1789 marked the start of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille prison.
One of the great old movies was adapted from the Charles Dickens novel of the French Revolution: A Tale of Two Cities. Ronald Colman gave one of his best performances, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka and Isabel Jewell were excellent. A must see if you have never seen it and like old movies.