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📰 On this day 🔹1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, organized as a union (U) of Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR). #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1835 Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction to cede all lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1065 New church devoted to St. Peter the Apostle is built by Edward the Confessor, later called the 'west minster,' consecrated in London (rebuilt mid-13th century) #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1941 Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" British Prime Minister Winston Churchill #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹962 Under future Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo and recover the tattered tunic of John the Baptist during the Byzantine-Arab Wars #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 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…