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📰 [ 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 | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1934 RCA Victor releases the first 33 1/3 rpm recording: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Leopold Stokowski at the Philadelphia Academy of Music Composer Ludwig van Beethoven #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ 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 | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1916 First use of tanks in warfare, Britain's Mark I "Little Willies" at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer with a hard drive featuring magnetic disk storage, which weighs over a ton #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1940 Four teens follow their dog down a hole near Lascaux, France, and discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as the Lascaux Cave Paintings #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1916 First true self-service supermarket, Clarence Saunders' "Piggly Wiggly," opens in Memphis, Tennessee. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1991 Rock band Nirvana releases their single "Smells Like Teen Spirit," often dubbed the anthem of "Generation X" Kurt Cobain #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1858 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time" #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins as French and British forces prevent the German advance on Paris #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1752 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 Pope Gregory XIII with the calendar that was to make his name #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1918 Fanya Kaplan attempts but fails to assassinate Lenin, the new leader of Soviet Russia Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet Leader Vladimir Lenin #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1883 Krakatoa volcano, located west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 200 megatons of TNT, killing approximately 36,000 people #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1959 British Motor Corporation introduces the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis; it is only 10 feet long yet seats four passengers #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1944 German commander Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Free French forces of Philippe Leclerc, disobeying Adolf Hitler's orders to destroy the city. President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic Charles de Gaulle gives a famous speech at the Hôtel de Ville.

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" is signed by 12 nations #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1968 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia at night to suppress the Prague Spring #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…