OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1782 The Grand Assault on Gibraltar by the allied French and Spanish fleets, including ten floating batteries and land forces, is heavily defeated by the British garrison, with all floating batteries destroyed and allied casualties of 1,473 compared to only 83 for the British #OTD | #PlebChain… Coffee ☕ Sep 14, 2024, 12:14 AM
Picstr The Tribute in Light is illuminated on the skyline of lower Manhattan on the day of the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, as viewed from Bayonne, New Jersey, September 11. 📸 #Picstr Eduardo Munoz #grownostr | #plebchain… Coffee ☕ Sep 13, 2024, 8:03 PM
Picstr 📍 Stokksnes 🇮🇸 📸 #Picstr Ivan Pedretti/World Nature Photography Awards #grownostr | #plebchain… Coffee ☕ Sep 13, 2024, 6:01 PM
Picstr Children take part in the Settrington Cup Pedal Car Race as motoring enthusiasts attend the Goodwood Revival, a three-day historic car racing festival in Goodwood, near Chichester, southern Britain, September 8. 📸 #Picstr Toby Melville #grownostr | #plebchain… Coffee ☕ Sep 12, 2024, 8:04 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1916 First true self-service supermarket, Clarence Saunders' "Piggly Wiggly," opens in Memphis, Tennessee #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 12, 2024, 12:16 AM
Picstr Members of the fire department and New York Port Authority Police Department hold a U.S. flag during a ceremony marking the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in Manhattan, New York City, September 11. 📸 #Picstr… Coffee ☕ Sep 11, 2024, 9:30 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? London taxi driver George Smith becomes the first person to be fined for drunk driving September 10, 1894 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 11, 2024, 12:10 AM
Picstr A drone image shows a sunken German warship from World War II, exposed due to low Danube river levels caused by drought and extreme heat, in Prahovo, Serbia, September 5. 📸 #Picstr Djordje Kojadinovic #grownostr | #plebchain… Coffee ☕ Sep 10, 2024, 7:59 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1000 Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent is defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age and leaps to his death overboard A naval battle fought between King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway and an alliance of his… Coffee ☕ Sep 9, 2024, 11:59 PM
Picstr Demonstrators protest outside La Moneda government palace ahead of the 51st anniversary of the 1973 Chilean military coup, in Santiago, Chile. 📸 #Picstr Ivan Alvarado #grownostr | #plebchain… Coffee ☕ Sep 9, 2024, 8:06 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1941 Siege of Leningrad, World War II, by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins; battle lasts over 28 months as the Soviets repel the invasion; well over a million lives are lost #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 9, 2024, 12:15 AM
Picstr A participant drives his homemade vehicle without an engine during the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Almaty, Kazakhstan August 31, 2024. 📸 #Picstr Pavel Mikheyev #grownostr | #plebchain… Coffee ☕ Sep 6, 2024, 7:58 PM
Picstr A silhouette of a bird on a lamp post as the sun rises in Summerstrand in Gqeberha, South Africa, September 3. 📸 #Picstr Esa Alexander #grownostr | #plebchain… Coffee ☕ Sep 5, 2024, 8:14 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot, thinking the government has stolen 11 days of their lives September 3, 1752 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 4, 2024, 12:07 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 3, 2024, 12:11 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 2, 2024, 12:14 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov August 31, 1994 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 1, 2024, 12:18 AM
Picstr Explosions occur on the deck of the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion on the Red Sea. 📸 #Picstr #grownostr | #plebchain… Coffee ☕ Aug 30, 2024, 7:58 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1830 The first American-built locomotive, "Tom Thumb," races a horse-drawn car from the Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems, the horse won! #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 29, 2024, 12:58 AM
Picstr A participant lies in tomato pulp, as people attend the annual food fight festival 'La Tomatina' in Bunol, near Valencia, Spain, August 28. 📸 #Picstr Eva Manez #grownostr | #plebchain… Coffee ☕ Aug 28, 2024, 8:14 PM
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