OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after five days, destroys 75% of the city and kills 12,000 people #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 19, 2024, 12:02 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1787 US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 17, 2024, 11:58 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1920 The "Wall Street bombing" occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 16, 2024, 11:08 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer with a hard drive with magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 14, 2024, 11:56 PM
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
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
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
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
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
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? "Uncle Sam" is first used to refer to the US, by Troy Post of New York September 7, 1813 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 8, 2024, 12:00 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1781 American Revolutionary War: French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British forces under Admiral Thomas Graves and Samuel Hood at the Battle of the Chesapeake [Battle of the Virginia Capes] and trap General Lord Charles Cornwallis #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 6, 2024, 2:12 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹476 Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Traditional end of the Western Roman Empire. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 5, 2024, 12:01 AM
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
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