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📰 On this day 🔹1849 The execution of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky by firing squad is called off at the last second #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1812 "Grimm's Fairy Tales" or "Children's and Household Tales" by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm is first published #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1971 Stanley Kubrick's film and cult classic "A Clockwork Orange" based on the book by Anthony Burgess and starring Malcolm McDowell premieres #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1917 The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing prohibition of alcohol, is approved by the US congress and sent to the states for ratification #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1903 The Wright brothers make a sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1915 WWI: ANZAC forces begin their withdrawal from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1995 The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments ending the conflict in the former Yugoslavia including Slobodan Milošević, Alija Izetbegović, Franjo Tuđman and Bill Clinton #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1577 Francis Drake sets sail from England on an epic three year circumnavigation of the world aboard the 'Pelican' (later renamed the 'Golden Hind') #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr before #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1964 Che speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech. Argentine Revolutionary Che Guevara #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1898 Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish–American War is signed by US President McKinley; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam Colonel ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (center, with glasses and holstered gun) with his ‘Rough Riders’ after victory at the Battle of San Juan Hill #OTD | #PlebChain…

📰 On this day 🔹1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his famous "Day of Infamy" speech to a joint session of Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attacks the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1848 US President James K. Polk triggers the Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming a gold discovery in California #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1791 Britain's "The Observer" is first published, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1854 Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences The battle at Eureka Stockade in Australia, crucial to developing democracy in the…

📰 On this day 🔹1804 General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1487 🍻🍺 The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot) is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1877 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…