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📰 On this day 🔹1945 The Nuremberg war trials begin as 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial before judges representing the victorious Allied powers #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1863 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal..." #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1558 Elizabeth I, aged 25, ascends the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1532 Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa after a surprise ambush at Cajamarca in the Peruvian Andes #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1969 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1851 "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville first published by Harper and Brothers in the US Moby Dick Author Herman Melville #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours November 14, 1889 #OTD

📰 On this day 🔹1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first 'space selfie', a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini program #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1620 Mayflower Compact is signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, establishing the first framework of government in the territory that is now the USA [N.S. Nov 21] #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1989 East Berlin opens its borders at Checkpoint Charlie when thousands arrive after a bureaucratic error announces that restrictions on travel to the West have been lifted #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? First cartoon depicting an elephant as the Republican Party symbol is published by Thomas Nast November 7, 1874 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1917 Bolshevik Revolution begins with the bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian Revolution #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1605 Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot. The plot is discovered, and Guy Fawkes is caught, tortured, and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, his effigy is…

📰 On this day 🔹1841 First wagon train arrives in California after a five-and-a-half-month, 1,730-mile journey over the Sierra Nevada from Missouri #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1907 US banker J. P. Morgan locks over 40 bankers in his library to force them to find ways to avert New York banking crisis Industrialist and Banker J. P. Morgan #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1922 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk takes Constantinople from Mehmed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…