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📰 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…

📰 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…