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📰 On this day 🔹1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins as US President John F. Kennedy is shown photos confirming the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1582 Gregorian calendar is introduced in Spain, Portugal and the Papal States, after skipping 10 days from October 4 to sync the calendar to the solar year and compensate for the drift that had occurred due to the Julian calendar having too many leap days #OTD | #PlebChain…

📰 On this day 🔹1066 Battle of Hastings: William, Duke of Normandy and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who is killed in the battle #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile comes to a happy end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1871 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1480 Great Stand on the Ugra river: Standoff between forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde and Ivan III, Grand Prince of all Rus. Ends with a Tatar-Mongol retreat, leading to the disintegration of the Horde. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1571 Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations formed by Pope Pius V destroy an Ottoman fleet in a significant loss off Western Greece #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1789 Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the king and his court moved to Paris #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1883 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1990 Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate at the stroke of midnight. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1187 Sultan of Egypt Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders 1st Sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, priced at $825 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1946 Twenty-two Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1829 First units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital, the city's first modern police force #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1781 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin the Siege of Yorktown 'Surrender of Lord Cornwallis' by John Trumbull depicting the British surrender which ended the American Revolutionary War #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy to conquer England #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1687 The Acropolis in Athens is attacked by the Venetian army in an attempt to eject the Turks, damaging the Parthenon #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…