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📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1929 On "Black Thursday," the Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 12.8%, marking the start of the stock market crash of 1929 A victim of the Wall Street crash puts his car up for sale in a desperate bid to raise cash #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1978 Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope 264th Pope John Paul II #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats the combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson is shot and killed during the battle. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1944 US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th Army on Leyte #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1781 British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 p.m., effectively ending the American Revolutionary War #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, after paying $7.2 million in the Purchase #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1943 Burma Railway, built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers, is completed for use by the Japanese army #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins as US President John F. Kennedy is shown photos confirming the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1066 Battle of Hastings: William, Duke of Normandy and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II, who is killed in the battle #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile comes to a happy end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground A miner kneels to pray after being rescued from the San Jose mine in Copiapó #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1900 First modern submarine is commissioned by the US Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland USS Holland (Submarine Torpedo Boat #1) underway in 1900 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1939 FDR and advisor Alexander Sachs meet to discuss Albert Einstein's letter warning about the possibilities of an atomic bomb Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹2014 Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Human Rights Activist Malala Yousafzai #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1665 Due to the Great Plague of London, the British Parliament meets at the University of Oxford rather than the Palace of Westminster Drivers of death carts in London would go street-to-street extolling people to "bring out your dead" at the height of

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1571 Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations formed by Pope Pius V destroys an Ottoman fleet in a significant loss off Western Greece #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1927 "The Jazz Singer," directed by Alan Crosland and starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, is released as the first film with a synchronized soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1929) #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1789 Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the king and his court moved to Paris #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹1883 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹2018 Saudi American journalist Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again, prompting a diplomatic crisis Dissident, Author and Columnist Jamal Khashoggi #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 [ oN This Day ] 🔹331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela Macedonian King and Conqueror of Persia Alexander the Great #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…