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📰 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…

📰 On this day 🔹1889 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris opens with the recently completed Eiffel Tower serving as the entrance arch; the lifts in the tower are not ready, intrepid visitors need to climb 1,710 stairs to get to top #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1471 Battle of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire: Final battle between the Houses of Lancaster and York sees Prince of Wales, Edward of Westminster, killed and King Edward IV return to his throne, restoring political stability to England until his death in 1483 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1926 Britain's Trade Union Congress calls for the country's first ever general strike, begins at 1 minute to midnight in support of striking coal miners and lasts 9 days #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America at Federal Hall in NYC #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1864 Battle of Gate Pā (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Māori warriors in Tauranga #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1881 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Lincoln, New Mexico Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1986 World's worst nuclear disaster: The fourth reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union explodes, 31 die and radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1954 Bell labs announces the first solar battery made from silicon. It has about 6% efficiency. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1290 Round Table tournament held near Winchester, England, in imitation of King Arthur, to commemorate betrothal of daughter of Edward I, and attended by the king #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts, with the "Shot Heard Round the World" fired later that day in Concord #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1909 Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1457 BC Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington; he dies a day later #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…