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📰 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…

📰 On this day 🔹 68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1789 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the new world along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr | #WW2…

📰 On this day 🔹 1968 Sirhan Sirhan assassinates Robert F. Kennedy, shooting him 3 times and wounding 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy dies the next day. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹 1940 British complete the "Miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 338,226 allied troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 vessels including Royal Navy destroyers, merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and even lifeboats #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr | #WW2…

📰 On this day 🔹 1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr | #Picstr…