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📰 On this day 🔹1936 Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1905 Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1967 EMI rush releases The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in London and select markets in the UK, prior to nation-wide release; it would go to number one for 15 weeks in the US and 22 weeks in

📰 On this day 🔹1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Chester A. Arthur and NY Governor Grover Cleveland #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹334 BC The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1932 After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, completing the first transatlantic solo flight by a woman #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1910 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII held in Westminster Abbey, has one of the largest assemblages of European royalty #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1536 Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1920 French heroine Joan of Arc is canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XV #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1841 First emigrant wagon train to make it to California leaves Independence, Missouri on a 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1787 First Fleet headed by Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of convicts for Botany Bay, Australia #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1789 William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons, reasoning the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1812 British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. Ironically, descendants of both later stand for the same seat in Parliament at the same time, but neither wins #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1869 The Golden Spike is driven, completing the first US Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah, connecting the Central Pacific Railroad with the Union Pacific #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact About May 9 Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to be sold at auction for $86.9 million dollars May 9, 2012 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1945 V-E Day: World War II ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England, the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive material #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…