MY SAY: BASTILLE DAY JULY 14, 1789
The French National Day commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. Three years later in 1793, the Reign of Terror began with the guillotine and serial public executions. The Revolutionary Tribunal executed 2,400 people in Paris by July 1794. Across France 30,000 people were killed.
While all this was going on in France in America on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia with 55 delegates in attendance, representing all 13 states except Rhode Island, which refused to send representatives because it did not want a powerful central government . They did form a more perfect Union. Vive L’Amerique!!
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