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📰 On this day 🔹1305 Scottish resistance leader William Wallace is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr FREEDOMMMMMMMM…

📰 On this day 🔹1492 Christopher Columbus, with Juan de la Cosa as second-in-command, sets sail on his first voyage with three ships: Santa María, Pinta, and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, for the "Indies" #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1774 English chemist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹762 City of Baghdad founded by Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur, just north of ancient Baghdad The minaret of the Al Khalufa mosque in Baghdad, showcasing the minaret from the Abbasid era of the city #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1588 The "Invincible" Spanish Armada is sighted approaching England, several skirmishes follow forcing the invading fleet to make a long and costly retreat around Scotland and Ireland English and Spanish fleets clash in the Battle of Gravelines in this historic painting by Philip James de

📰 On this day 🔹1794 French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1866 First transatlantic telegraph cable comes ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland after being laid out 1,686 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1533 Francisco Pizarro orders the death of the last Sapa Inca Emperor, Atahualpa #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1943 Benito Mussolini is dismissed as Italian Prime Minister and arrested on the authority of King Victor Emmanuel III The recorded votes of the Grand Council of Fascism voting no confidence in Benito Mussolini #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1829 William Austin Burt patents America's first typewriter, the typographer #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1456 Hungarian army under John Hunyadi defeat the forces of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and end the Siege of Belgrade (Nándorfehérvár). Halting Ottoman expansion in Europe for 70 years. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1969 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon. Seven hours later Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the moon at 10:56 p.m. EDT, Aldrin joins him shortly after. Michael Collins remains in orbit…

📰 On this day 🔹1692 5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (19 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts Dramatic lithograph of the Salem witch trials produced in 1892 #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1334 Bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by artist Giotto di Bondone #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia The basement room in Ipatiev House where the Romanov royal family and their staff were executed. The holes in the walls…

📰 On this day 🔹1661 First banknotes in Europe are issued by the Bank of Stockholm The first European banknote, issued by Stockholms Banco of Sweden #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…