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
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1959 British Motor Corporation introduces the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis. It is only 10 feet long yet seats four passengers. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 26, 2024, 11:44 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1944 German commander Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Free French forces of Philippe Leclerc, disobeying Adolf Hitler's orders to destroy the city. President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic Charles de Gaulle gives a famous speech at the Hôtel de Ville. Coffee ☕ Aug 26, 2024, 12:00 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹410 Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 25, 2024, 12:08 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1305 Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward I of England at Smithfield, London #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 23, 2024, 11:59 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 22, 2024, 11:56 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1911 "Mona Lisa" is stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia; recovered in 1913 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 21, 2024, 11:59 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1968 During the night, 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to put down the Prague Spring #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 20, 2024, 11:57 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1839 Louis Daguerre's daguerreotype photographic process with complete working instructions is published "free to the world" in Paris as a gift from the French government #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 19, 2024, 11:59 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1940 Battle of Britain: Air battle known as "The Hardest Day" occurs; Luftwaffe lose approximately 69 aircraft and the RAF 68 in one of the largest ever air battles #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 19, 2024, 12:00 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹 Fun Fact King of Morocco Hassan II's Boeing 727 is attacked and shot at by six F-5 military jets during a failed coup attempt by General Mohamed Oufkir. Reportedly, King Hassan grabbed the radio and told the rebel pilots "Stop firing! The tyrant Coffee ☕ Aug 17, 2024, 12:00 AM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1939 "The Wizard of Oz", American musical fantasy film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's book, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood; directed by Victor Fleming and King Vidor with cast featuring Judy Garland (Dorothy), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin Man) Coffee ☕ Aug 15, 2024, 11:58 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1945 V-J Day, the Empire of Japan surrenders unconditionally to the Allies, ending World War II (August 15 in Japan and other countries depending on the time zone) #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 14, 2024, 11:57 PM
OTD 📰 On this day 🔹1942 The Manhattan Project commences under the direction of US General Leslie Groves with the aim of developing an atomic bomb #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr… Coffee ☕ Aug 13, 2024, 11:45 PM