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Bastille Day, Trinity Test & Nadia's Perfect Ten | Jul 13–18
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From the storming of the Bastille to the world's first nuclear detonation, this week in history delivered seismic moments across five centuries. Plus: DiMaggio's untouchable streak, the Rosetta Stone, and the scoreboard that couldn't handle Nadia Comaneci.
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On July fourteenth, seventeen eighty-nine, in Paris, France, a restless crowd fed up with royal authority and food shortages marched on the Bastille, a fortress-prison that had come to symbolize the king's absolute power. They stormed the gates, overwhelmed the small garrison, and freed the handful of prisoners inside.
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