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📰 On this day 🔹1492 Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, ending both the Reconquista and centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant in an image composed of X-rays from Chandra (blue) and infrared images from Webb (orange, white, and blue) released on July 23, 2024. The Cassiopeia A, an expanding ball of matter and energy ejected from an exploding star, consists of rings of neon blue…

📰 On this day 🔹1863 Emancipation Proclamation is issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in Confederate states #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, December 31. 📸 #Picstr Bianca De Marchi #Nostr | #plebchain…

📰 On this day 🔹1775 Battle of Quebec: American Continental Army led by Richard Montgomery is defeated trying to take the British stronghold of Quebec City in the American Revolutionary War, General Montgomery is killed and Benedict Arnold is injured #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

President Jimmy Carter signs an extension of Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) at the White House, October 20, 1978. 📸 #Picstr National Archives #Nostr | #plebchain…

📰 On this day 🔹1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, organized as a union (U) of Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR). #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

A person pedals a bike past storefronts decorated with Christmas lighting on Front Street, in Leavenworth, Wash., Nov. 2024 📸 #Picstr Jenny Kane #Nostr | #plebchain…

📰 On this day 🔹1835 Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction to cede all lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

Members of the artillery unit of the special rifle battalion of Zaporizhzhia region police fire a small multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) toward Russian troops in a front line, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, December 25. 📸 #Picstr REUTERS/Stringer #Nostr | #plebchain…

📰 On this day 🔹1065 New church devoted to St. Peter the Apostle is built by Edward the Confessor, later called the 'west minster,' consecrated in London (rebuilt mid-13th century) #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

People visit an illuminated walk-through trail featuring lantern illuminated sculptures, light installations, and light projections which have been set up for the Christmas season at Verdala Palace, in Siggiewi, Malta, December 21. 📸 #Picstr Darrin Zammit Lupi #Nostr | #plebchain…

Volunteers dressed in Santa Claus costumes rappel from the roof of Children's Hospital Srebrnjak to bring gifts to the children, in Zagreb, Croatia, December 23. 📸 #Picstr Antonio Bronic #Nostr | #plebchain…

📰 On this day 🔹1941 Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" British Prime Minister Winston Churchill #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

Somali migrants who were held captive for ransom in Libya pray after disembarking from a plane as they are repatriated, at the Aden Abdulle International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, December 18. 📸 #Picstr Feisal Omar #Nostr | #plebchain…

People dressed as Santa Claus row during a Christmas regatta along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. 📸 #Picstr Manuel Silvestri #Nostr | #plebchain…

📰 On this day 🔹962 Under future Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo and recover the tattered tunic of John the Baptist during the Byzantine-Arab Wars #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1849 The execution of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky by firing squad is called off at the last second #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…