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📰 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…

📰 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.

📰 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…

📰 On this day 🔹1305 Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward I of England at Smithfield, London #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 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…

📰 On this day 🔹1911 "Mona Lisa" is stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia; recovered in 1913 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 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…

📰 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…

📰 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…

📰 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)

📰 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…

📰 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…

📰 On this day 🔹1908 Ford Motor Company builds its first Model T car, which Henry Ford himself first tests on a hunting trip to Wisconsin and northern Michigan #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹3114 BC Start of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹612 BC Fall of Nineveh to the Babylonians and the forces of Medes, leads to the sack of one of the greatest cities in the world, the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the death of King Sinsharishkun [date approximate] #OTD…

📰 On this day 🔹1974 Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States and Vice President Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1786 US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1960 Chubby Checker performs his version of Hank Ballard's "The Twist" on "The Dick Clark Show", starting a worldwide dance craze Young people in Berlin taking part in the Twist dance craze, 1964 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…