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📰 On this day 🔹1909 Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1457 BC Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington; he dies a day later #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1868 Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala and Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II commits suicide #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1861 Fort Sumter in South Carolina is attacked by the Confederacy, beginning the American Civil War #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹2019 Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is overthrown and arrested by the army in Khartoum after 29 years in power following massive street protests #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1815 Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people, causes global volcanic winter #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1820 The famous ancient Greek statue, Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1968 Riots continue in over 100 US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1652 Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa, is established by the Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1722 Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen is the first European to discover Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the southeastern Pacific #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1801 Napoleonic Wars: The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet in the naval Battle of Copenhagen #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1748 The ruins of Pompeii are rediscovered by Spaniard Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1889 Eiffel Tower officially opens for dignitaries and an award ceremony in Paris, France; designed by Gustave Eiffel and built for the Exposition Universelle, at 300 meters high, it holds the record for the tallest man-made structure for 41 years #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1856 The Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Paris ending the Crimean War #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1910 First seaplane takes off from water under its own power, piloted by Henri Fabre from the Étang de Berre lagoon in Martigues, France #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹196 BC The Rosetta Stone and others like it are inscribed with the Decree of Memphis proclaiming the rule of the King of Ptolemaic Egypt, Ptolemy V #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1945 Allies led by US Marine Corps secure island of Iwo Jima from Imperial Japanese Army, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed United States Marines raise the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, during the Battle of Iwo Jima #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…