OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking 🚬 🚭 September 25, 1878 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 25, 2024, 11:27 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1957 "Jailhouse Rock" single released by Elvis Presley (Billboard Song of the Year 1957) #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 24, 2024, 11:57 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? First version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox dubbed Phoenix 0.1 is released to the public September 23, 2002 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 23, 2024, 11:43 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1692 Last eight people hanged for witchcraft in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during the Salem witch trials #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 22, 2024, 11:58 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1604 Siege of Ostend ends after Dutch and English forces surrender the city, allowing Ambrosio Spinola's Spanish army to recapture the devastated city and end one of the bloodiest sieges in history that caused an estimated 100,000 casualties #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 20, 2024, 11:05 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after five days, destroys 75% of the city and kills 12,000 people #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 19, 2024, 12:02 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1787 US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 17, 2024, 11:58 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1920 The "Wall Street bombing" occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 16, 2024, 11:08 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer with a hard drive with magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 14, 2024, 11:56 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1782 The Grand Assault on Gibraltar by the allied French and Spanish fleets, including ten floating batteries and land forces, is heavily defeated by the British garrison, with all floating batteries destroyed and allied casualties of 1,473 compared to only 83 for the British #OTD | #PlebChain… Coffee ☕ Sep 14, 2024, 12:14 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1916 First true self-service supermarket, Clarence Saunders' "Piggly Wiggly," opens in Memphis, Tennessee #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 12, 2024, 12:16 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? London taxi driver George Smith becomes the first person to be fined for drunk driving September 10, 1894 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 11, 2024, 12:10 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1000 Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent is defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age and leaps to his death overboard A naval battle fought between King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway and an alliance of his… Coffee ☕ Sep 9, 2024, 11:59 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1941 Siege of Leningrad, World War II, by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins; battle lasts over 28 months as the Soviets repel the invasion; well over a million lives are lost #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 9, 2024, 12:15 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot, thinking the government has stolen 11 days of their lives September 3, 1752 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 4, 2024, 12:07 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 3, 2024, 12:11 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 2, 2024, 12:14 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Fun Fact Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov August 31, 1994 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Sep 1, 2024, 12:18 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1830 The first American-built locomotive, "Tom Thumb," races a horse-drawn car from the Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems, the horse won! #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 29, 2024, 12:58 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹Did You Know? Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM). Shortest recorded war in history. August 27, 1896 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 28, 2024, 12:05 AM
