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📰 On this day 🔹1863 Battle of Gettysburg begins in Pennsylvania, Union forces halt Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1520 Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec revolt against their rule under Hernán Cortés during "La Noche Triste" (the Night of Sadness). Many soldiers drown in the escape, and Aztec emperor Moctezuma II dies in the struggle. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1964 NBC approves Gene Roddenberry's script for pilot episode of "Star Trek" titled "The Cage" #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr | #StarTrek…

📰 On this day 🔹1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated by Bosnian-Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, setting off a chain of alliances and events that lead to World War I #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1743 War of the Austrian Succession: King George II of Britain personally leads Allied troops to victory in the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1794 Battle of Fleurus: Major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs). First use of a reconnaissance balloon. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand" #OTD | #PlebChain

📰 On this day 🔹1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée numbering half a million begin their invasion of Russia by crossing the Nieman River #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful of its kind #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1633 Galileo Galilei recants his "heretical" position that the Earth orbiting the Sun was at odds with the Bible and church teaching (Vatican apologizes in Oct 1992 for how it handled the case) #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1829 Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London, the city's first modern police force #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon Bonaparte and France defeated by British forces under Duke of Wellington and Prussian troops under Field Marshall von Blücher #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1779 Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of France and the USA, starting the Great Siege of Gibraltar which goes on to last 3 years, 7 months and 2 weeks #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1215 English King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede, near Windsor in Surrey, places limits on royal authority and puts in writing the principle that the king and his government are not above the law #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1381 Richard II in England meets leaders of the Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance. King Richard addresses the peasants. Wat Tyler lies wounded behind him. Illustration from a medieval manuscript. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam Happy Anne Frank sitting at a schooldesk in 1940, unaware of the horrors to come #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1776 Continental Congress creates committee to draft a Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as members #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1898 US Marines land in Cuba during the Spanish–American War Colonel ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (center, with glasses and holstered gun) with his ‘Rough Riders’ after victory at the Battle of San Juan Hill #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…