Holiday A Day

Hello and welcome to Holiday a Day, your daily dose of Holidays, festivals, celebrations and remembrances from around the world.   I am your host Jeffrey Johnson   On July 14th 2014 we celebrate   Bastille Day as it is referred to in English or La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration) also commonly referred to as Le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). This is to celebrate the day the Bastille was stormed and started the French Revolution in 1789.  It also commemorates the Fête de la Fédération which happened in 1790, a celebration of French unity where othas to the new constitution were sworn by high level French individuals.   The largest and longest running military parade in Europe is held on July 14th in Paris with the parade having around 7,000 soldiers (5,000 on foot, the rest, crew members or cavalrymen), 300 vehicles, 240 horses and more than 80 planes and helicopters.  The first time the parade was held was during Fête de la Fédération (in 1790) after which the French people celebrated for