OTD

📰 On this day 🔹532 Nika riots begin in Constantinople, a revolt against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I that leaves half the city burned and thousands dead. The riots were prompted by the failed execution of chariot racing supporters and only stopped after Empress Theodora refused to flee, forcing her husband to…

📰 On this day 🔹1879 Anglo-Zulu War begins as British Lieutenant-General Lord Chelmsford invades Zululand in South Africa #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1839 Louis Daguerre demonstrates his 'daguerreotype' photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹2016 Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announces the recapture of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán six months after his escape from prison #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa and Ganymede Astronomer and Physicist Galileo Galilei #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1838 Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate their telegraph machine in New Jersey #OTD | #PlebChain | the first #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1477 Battle of Nancy: Swiss Confederacy led by René II decisively defeats the Duchy of Burgundy, 7,000+ killed including the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for failing to recant parts of his Ninety-five Theses which started the Protestant Reformation #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1492 Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, ending both the Reconquista and centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1863 Emancipation Proclamation is issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in Confederate states #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1775 Battle of Quebec: American Continental Army led by Richard Montgomery is defeated trying to take the British stronghold of Quebec City in the American Revolutionary War, General Montgomery is killed and Benedict Arnold is injured #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, organized as a union (U) of Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR). #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1835 Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction to cede all lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1065 New church devoted to St. Peter the Apostle is built by Edward the Confessor, later called the 'west minster,' consecrated in London (rebuilt mid-13th century) #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1941 Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" British Prime Minister Winston Churchill #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹962 Under future Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo and recover the tattered tunic of John the Baptist during the Byzantine-Arab Wars #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…