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📰 On this day 🔹1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated by Bosnian-Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, setting off a chain of alliances and events that lead to World War I #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1914 The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by Gandhi; it abolishes a £3 tax imposed on Indians who had not renewed their indentures and recognizes "the validity of Indian customary marriages" Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi #OTD

📰 On this day 🔹1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand" #OTD | #PlebChain

📰 On this day 🔹1374 Sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion A depiction of dancing mania, on the pilgrimage of epileptics to the church at Molenbeek.

📰 On this day 🔹1789 French Revolution: The Third Estate of the French Estates-General swears the Tennis Court Oath at the Palace of Versailles, swearing not to disband until a new constitution is formed #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon Bonaparte and France defeated by British forces under Duke of Wellington and Prussian troops under Field Marshall von Blücher #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1982 Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Perpetual Alliance (world's oldest still in existence) signed in London between King Edward III of England and King Ferdinand I of Portugal #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹2003 The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1789 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1940 British complete the "Miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 338,226 allied troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 vessels including Royal Navy destroyers, merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and even lifeboats #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1774 Boston Port Act: Following the passage of the act, the British government orders Port of Boston closed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…