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📰 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…

📰 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…