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📰 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…

📰 On this day 🔹1240 Batu Khan's Mongol army lays siege to Kyiv and begins assaulting its city walls with catapults, city falls 8 days later Siege weapons and logistic supplies of the Mongol army laying siege to Kyiv #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1807 Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1905 Telimco makes the 1st ever advertisement for a radio set, by advertising a $8.50 set in the "Scientific American" which claimed to receive signals for up to one mile #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1639 First observation of the transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree, helps establish the size of the solar system #OTD | #PlebChain | #Nostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1248 Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile after the city capitulates #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1963 US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1945 The Nuremberg war trials begin as 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial before judges representing the victorious Allied powers #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1863 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal..." #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1558 Elizabeth I, aged 25, ascends the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1532 Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa after a surprise ambush at Cajamarca in the Peruvian Andes #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1969 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…