OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle at age 44 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 8, 2025, 12:11 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1992 The Maastricht Treaty is signed by 12 countries from the European Community (EC) to create the European Union (EU) #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 7, 2025, 12:18 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1974 US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of President Richard Nixon 37th US President Richard Nixon #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 6, 2025, 12:02 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manila in the Philippines after a month long battle, ending three years of Japanese military occupation #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 5, 2025, 12:07 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1859 One of the oldest known copies of the Bible, "The Codex Sinaiticus" (Sinai Bible), is seen in Egypt by Constantin von Tischendorf, who takes the manuscript home #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 4, 2025, 12:15 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1928 Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black reports his findings on the ancient human fossils found at Zhoukoudian, China, in the journal Nature and declares them to be a new species he names 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus') Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 3, 2025, 12:07 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1349 By this date at least 200 people a day were being buried in London as a result of the Black Death Medieval painting from 1353 showing the citizens of Tournai (today in Belgium) burying victims of the Black Death #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Feb 2, 2025, 12:03 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1968 Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém with a pistol shot to the head. The execution is captured by photographer Eddie Adams and becomes an anti-war icon. #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 31, 2025, 11:57 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1943 German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad the highest-ranking German officer to surrender during World War II #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 31, 2025, 12:17 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1965 State funeral for Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London; at the time, the world's largest-ever state funeral #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 30, 2025, 12:01 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1594 Mathematician John Napier dedicates his "Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John" to King James VI, predicts end of the world in 1688 or 1700 Mathematician John Napier #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 29, 2025, 12:03 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1985 Charity single "We Are the World" recorded by supergroup for Africa (Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, and other pop stars) King of Pop Michael Jackson #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 28, 2025, 12:01 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 💡 January 27, 1880 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 26, 2025, 11:59 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1998 President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 25, 2025, 11:57 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact Journalist Nellie Bly beats the fictional journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg around the world by 8 days, completing it in 72 days January 25, 1890 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 25, 2025, 12:01 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1973 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 23, 2025, 12:05 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1905 In St Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday' #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 22, 2025, 12:01 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1793 Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for "high treason" by the newly created French Parliament (Convention nationale), during the French Revolution #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 21, 2025, 12:07 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact Heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne allegedly bites the head off a bat on stage in Des Moines, Iowa January 20, 1982 #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 20, 2025, 12:03 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1812 After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and Third Divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo during the Peninsular War #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr… Coffee ☕ Jan 19, 2025, 12:05 AM