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📰 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…

📰 On this day 🔹1917 Bolshevik Revolution begins with the bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian Revolution #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1605 Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot. The plot is discovered, and Guy Fawkes is caught, tortured, and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, his effigy is…

📰 On this day 🔹1841 First wagon train arrives in California after a five-and-a-half-month, 1,730-mile journey over the Sierra Nevada from Missouri #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1907 US banker J. P. Morgan locks over 40 bankers in his library to force them to find ways to avert New York banking crisis Industrialist and Banker J. P. Morgan #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1922 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk takes Constantinople from Mehmed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1517 Martin Luther sends his Ninety-five Theses to Albert of Brandenburg, Archbishop of Mainz, precipitating the Protestant Reformation #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1973 The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1929 Stock market crash on Wall Street, known as "Black Tuesday," triggers the Great Depression #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1831 Michael Faraday demonstrates his dynamo invention, an electrical generator #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹312 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs between lawmen, including Wyatt Earp, and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1854 Infamous "Charge of the Light Brigade" during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War results in over 100 deaths #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…