OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1961 Soviet flight Sputnik 9 carries and returns from orbit a dog named Chernushka (Blackie), frogs and a guinea pig #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Mar 8, 2025, 11:59 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire March 7, 321 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Mar 8, 2025, 12:04 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Mar 6, 2025, 12:06 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Mar 5, 2025, 12:07 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact The song "Happy Birthday To You" is published by Claydon Sunny March 4, 1924 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Mar 4, 2025, 12:18 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Fact About Today A 2-year-old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured March 3, 2013 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Mar 2, 2025, 11:59 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while she is boarding a train in Windsor March 2, 1882 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Mar 2, 2025, 12:16 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1954 US explodes Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally becomes the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Mar 1, 2025, 12:13 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1947 February 28 Massacre: Anti-government uprising in Taiwan is violently put down by Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang-led Republic of China government with the loss of 18,000-28,000 lives. Marks the beginning of the White Terror. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 28, 2025, 12:02 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans February 27, 1827 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 27, 2025, 12:05 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1991 Gulf War: Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait, killing hundreds and creating the so-called 'Highway of Death' #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 26, 2025, 12:10 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1862 First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 25, 2025, 12:09 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact A 4.4 billion-year-old Crystal is discovered to be the oldest known fragment from the earth's crust February 24, 2014 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 24, 2025, 12:02 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1954 First mass inoculation against polio with the Jonas Salk vaccine takes place at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 23, 2025, 12:16 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? Neanderthals, not humans, were the first artists on Earth, producing red cave paintings 65,000 years ago in Spain, according to new research published in "Science" February 22, 2018 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 21, 2025, 11:58 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact Scientists successfully regenerate the flowering plant, Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years February 20, 2012 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 19, 2025, 11:58 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1878 Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his cylinder phonograph [1] #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 19, 2025, 12:03 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹2014 Ukrainian Revolution of 2014 begins as protesters, riot police and unknown shooters take part in violent events in the capital, Kiev, culminating after five days in the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 18, 2025, 12:01 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends as the last Soviet troops cross the Soviet-Afghan border #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 15, 2025, 12:03 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Captain Horatio Nelson distinguishes himself. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 14, 2025, 12:02 AM
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