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📰 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…

📰 On this day 🔹1851 "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville first published by Harper and Brothers in the US Moby Dick Author Herman Melville #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours November 14, 1889 #OTD

📰 On this day 🔹1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first 'space selfie', a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini program #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1620 Mayflower Compact is signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, establishing the first framework of government in the territory that is now the USA [N.S. Nov 21] #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1989 East Berlin opens its borders at Checkpoint Charlie when thousands arrive after a bureaucratic error announces that restrictions on travel to the West have been lifted #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? First cartoon depicting an elephant as the Republican Party symbol is published by Thomas Nast November 7, 1874 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…