OTD

📰 On this day 🔹1789 Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris. Now celebrated as France's national day. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics 260th Pope Pius XII #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park: fans go wild destroying disco records and cause the White Sox to forfeit second game of a doubleheader to the Detroit Tigers #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand, to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹2001 "The Office" mockumentary created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, starring Ricky Gervais and Martin Freeman premieres on BBC Two in the UK #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1979 Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft launched atop its Titan/Centaur-7 launch vehicle #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1807 French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte and Russian Tsar Alexander I meet on a raft in the middle of the Neman River and sign the first Treaty of Tilsit #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1947 The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1811 Venezuelan Declaration of Independence: Seven provinces declare themselves independent of Spain #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Great Britain #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1863 Battle of Gettysburg, the largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1863 Battle of Gettysburg begins in Pennsylvania, Union forces halt Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1520 Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec revolt against their rule under Hernán Cortés during "La Noche Triste" (the Night of Sadness). Many soldiers drown in the escape, and Aztec emperor Moctezuma II dies in the struggle. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1964 NBC approves Gene Roddenberry's script for pilot episode of "Star Trek" titled "The Cage" #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr | #StarTrek…

📰 On this day 🔹1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated by Bosnian-Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, setting off a chain of alliances and events that lead to World War I #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1743 War of the Austrian Succession: King George II of Britain personally leads Allied troops to victory in the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1794 Battle of Fleurus: Major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs). First use of a reconnaissance balloon. #OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr…

📰 On this day 🔹1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand" #OTD | #PlebChain