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2024-06-26 00:03:15

On today's date in 1910: The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes". https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Seal_of_the_United_States_Congress.svg/1055px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Congress.svg.png #history #grownostr

2024-06-25 19:03:12

On today's date in 524: The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce. #history #grownostr

2024-06-24 15:03:18

On today's date in 474: Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. #history #grownostr

2024-06-23 15:03:12

On today's date in 0229: Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu. #history #grownostr

2024-06-21 00:03:15

On today's date in 2009: Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead in Tehran during the presidential election protests; footage of her death was widely distributed over the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history". https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Neda_Agha-Soltan.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-06-20 00:03:13

On today's date in 1800: War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria. #history #grownostr

2024-06-19 15:03:12

On today's date in 1821: Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia). #history #grownostr

2024-06-19 10:03:15

On today's date in 1867: Second French intervention in Mexico: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico was executed by firing squad in Querétaro City. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Si%C3%A8ge_de_Puebla_-_29_mars_1863.PNG #history #grownostr

2024-06-19 00:03:15

On today's date in 1967: American musician Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the end of a performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in California. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Hendrix.svg/585px-Hendrix.svg.png #history #grownostr

2024-06-18 15:03:12

On today's date in 618: Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China. #history #grownostr

2024-06-18 10:03:12

On today's date in 1684: The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court. #history #grownostr

2024-06-18 00:03:13

On today's date in 1565: Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru. #history #grownostr

2024-06-17 05:03:17

On today's date in 1632: The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, who became the first permanent European settler of Pejepscot, Maine. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Wpdms_king_james_grants.png #history #grownostr

2024-06-17 00:03:12

On today's date in 1746: War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza. #history #grownostr

2024-06-16 10:03:15

On today's date in 1972: English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/David-Bowie_Chicago_2002-08-08_photoby_Adam-Bielawski-cropped.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-06-15 19:03:15

On today's date in 1920: Three African-American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for having taken place in the Northern United States. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Duluth-lynching-postcard.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-06-13 19:03:12

On today's date in 1774: Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves. #history #grownostr

2024-06-11 05:03:12

On today's date in 1719: Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel. #history #grownostr

2024-06-09 05:03:12

On today's date in 1191: Richard I arrives in Acre, beginning the Third Crusade. #history #grownostr

2024-06-09 00:03:14

On today's date in 1941: World War II: The Allies commenced the Syria–Lebanon campaign against Vichy French possessions in the Levant. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17%2C_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-06-07 05:03:16

On today's date in 1832: The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard. #history #grownostr

2024-06-07 00:03:12

On today's date in 1513: Battle of Novara. In the Italian Wars, Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, forcing them to abandon Milan; Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored. #history #grownostr

2024-06-06 19:03:14

On today's date in 1813: War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/War_of_1812_Montage.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-06-05 05:03:14

On today's date in 1998: Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Terry_Nichols_%28mug_shot%29.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-06-05 00:03:15

On today's date in 1561: The spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London was destroyed by fire. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Old_St_Paul%27s_Cathedral_photographic_reconstruction.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-06-04 19:03:15

On today's date in 1760: Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians. #history #grownostr

2024-06-03 19:03:12

On today's date in 1621: The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland. #history #grownostr

2024-06-01 05:03:15

On today's date in 1805: French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock, Martinique. #history #grownostr

2024-05-31 19:03:12

On today's date in 1223: Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans. #history #grownostr

2024-05-31 15:03:12

On today's date in 1790: The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790. #history #grownostr

2024-05-31 10:03:14

On today's date in 1935: An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck Balochistan in British India, now part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Chappar_Rift_1945.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-05-31 05:03:17

On today's date in 1914: RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnel ocean liner, departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/SS_Aquitania.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-05-31 00:03:12

On today's date in 1588: The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. #history #grownostr

2024-05-30 19:03:12

On today's date in 1416: The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy. #history #grownostr

2024-05-30 05:03:12

On today's date in 1416: Battle of Gallipoli: The Venetians under Pietro Loredan defeat a much larger Ottoman fleet off Gallipoli. #history #grownostr

2024-05-30 00:03:12

On today's date in 1108: Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez. #history #grownostr

2024-05-29 15:03:15

On today's date in 1911: English dramatist W. S. Gilbert of the songwriting duo Gilbert and Sullivan died while saving a young woman from drowning in his lake. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Elliott_%26_Fry_-_photograph_W._S._Gilbert.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-05-29 05:03:14

On today's date in 1754: French and Indian War: Led by 22-year-old George Washington, a company of Virginia colonial militiamen ambushed a force of 35 Canadiens at the Battle of Jumonville Glen. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/French_and_indian_war_map.svg/745px-French_and_indian_war_map.svg.png #history #grownostr

2024-05-29 00:03:14

On today's date in 1940: Second World War: Belgium surrendered to Nazi Germany, ending the Battle of Belgium. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17%2C_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-05-28 19:03:12

On today's date in 1802: In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops. #history #grownostr

2024-05-28 05:03:15

On today's date in 2006: An earthquake registering 6.4 Mw struck near the city of Yogyakarta on the southern side of the Indonesian island of Java, killing more than 5,700 people. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/JogjaEarthquake27Mei2006-2.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-05-22 19:03:12

On today's date in 1200: King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet. #history #grownostr

2024-05-22 00:03:12

On today's date in 879: Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state. #history #grownostr

2024-05-21 05:03:12

On today's date in 1520: Hernando Cortes defeats Panfilo de Narvaez, sent by Spain to punish him for insubordination. #history #grownostr

2024-05-20 19:03:15

On today's date in 1943: The Luttra Woman, a bog body from the Early Neolithic period, was discovered near Luttra, Sweden. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Hallonflickans_kranium_9989.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-05-19 05:03:12

On today's date in 332: Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. #history #grownostr

2024-05-18 19:03:13

On today's date in 332: Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. #history #grownostr

2024-05-18 05:03:12

On today's date in 1756: Seven Years' War formally begins when Great Britain declares war on France #history #grownostr

2024-05-16 05:03:15

On today's date in 392: Roman emperor Valentinian II (pictured) was found hanged in his residence in Vienne, in present-day France. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Statue_of_emperor_Valentinian_II.JPG #history #grownostr

2024-05-15 15:03:12

On today's date in 1252: Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. #history #grownostr

2024-05-15 05:03:15

On today's date in 1863: American Civil War: Union troops captured Jackson, the capital of Mississippi. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/CivilWarUSAColl.png #history #grownostr

2024-05-13 05:03:12

On today's date in 254: Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. #history #grownostr

2024-05-12 10:03:15

On today's date in 1968: Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force began the defence of Fire Support Base Coral in the largest unit-level action of the war for the Australian Army. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/U.S._Army_UH-1H_Hueys_insert_ARVN_troops_at_Kh%C3%A2m_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c%2C_Vietnam%2C_12_July_1970_%2879431435%29.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-05-11 05:03:15

On today's date in 1768: Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. #history #grownostr

2024-05-10 19:03:12

On today's date in 1768: Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. #history #grownostr

2024-05-10 15:03:12

On today's date in 1503: Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there. #history #grownostr

2024-05-10 05:03:12

On today's date in 1671: Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. #history #grownostr

2024-05-10 00:03:14

On today's date in 2005: Pope Benedict XVI began the beatification process for his predecessor Pope John Paul II, waiving the standard five years required after the nominee's death. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Benedykt_XVI_%282010-10-17%29_2.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-05-08 19:03:12

On today's date in 1541: Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519). #history #grownostr

2024-05-06 19:03:15

On today's date in 2010: Exacerbated by high-frequency traders using strategies that have since been banned, major U.S. stock indices dropped nearly 9 percent and quickly rebounded. #history #grownostr

2024-05-06 15:03:14

On today's date in 1988: Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into the fog-covered mountain of Torghatten in Brønnøy, Norway, killing all 36 people on board. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Wideroe_Dash_7_LN-WFE.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-05-06 10:03:16

On today's date in 1882: Irish civil servants Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical Irish National Invincibles in Phoenix Park, Dublin. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Thomas_Henry_Burke.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-05-06 05:03:12

On today's date in 1494: On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown. #history #grownostr

2024-05-04 00:03:12

On today's date in 1616: Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war. #history #grownostr

2024-05-03 05:03:12

On today's date in 1559: John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation. #history #grownostr

2024-05-02 00:03:14

On today's date in 1807: The Slave Trade Act 1807 takes effect, abolishing the slave trade within the British Empire. #history #grownostr

2024-04-30 15:03:17

On today's date in 1789: George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-04-30 05:03:12

On today's date in 1429: Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans. #history #grownostr

2024-04-27 05:03:12

On today's date in 1721: A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. #history #grownostr

2024-04-27 00:03:12

On today's date in 1721: A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. #history #grownostr

2024-04-26 19:03:15

On today's date in 1970: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization_Logo.svg/512px-World_Intellectual_Property_Organization_Logo.svg.png #history #grownostr

2024-04-22 00:03:14

On today's date in 1970: In response to a dispute over wheat production quotas, Leonard Casley declared his 75 km2 (29 sq mi) farm in Western Australia to be an independent country as the Hutt River Province. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Flag_of_Western_Australia.svg/1200px-Flag_of_Western_Australia.svg.png #history #grownostr

2024-04-16 15:03:12

On today's date in 1780: Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster. #history #grownostr

2024-04-16 10:03:13

On today's date in 1917: World War I: Several French army corps began a massive assault against the German-occupied Chemin des Dames ridge, south of Laon, France. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Bataille_de_Verdun_1916.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-04-13 05:03:17

On today's date in 2013: Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali. #history #grownostr

2024-04-12 00:03:14

On today's date in 1963: Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in terris, the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will" rather than only to Catholics. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Ioannes_XXIII%2C_by_De_Agostini%2C_1958%E2%80%931963.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-04-11 00:03:14

On today's date in 1970: In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Paul_McCartney_2021_%28cropped%29.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-04-10 19:03:14

On today's date in 1919: Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata (pictured) was shot to death near Ciudad Ayala, Morelos. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Collage_revoluci%C3%B3n_mexicana.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-04-07 00:03:15

On today's date in 1712: The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway. #history #grownostr

2024-04-04 19:03:12

On today's date in 1660: Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists and opponents of the monarchy for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum. #history #grownostr

2024-04-02 19:03:13

On today's date in 1979: Spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk, causing at least 68 deaths. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Sporic_meiosis.svg/503px-Sporic_meiosis.svg.png #history #grownostr

2024-04-02 05:03:12

On today's date in 1900: Prince George becomes absolute monarch of the Cretan State. #history #grownostr

2024-04-02 00:03:14

On today's date in 1833: Mexican Texans met at San Felipe de Austin to begin the Convention of 1833. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Mexican_Texas_1833-en.svg/2164px-Mexican_Texas_1833-en.svg.png #history #grownostr

2024-04-01 19:03:14

On today's date in 1933: English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual score in Test cricket of 336 not out during a match against New Zealand. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Wally_Hammond_c1930.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-04-01 05:03:13

On today's date in 1146: Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade. #history #grownostr

2024-04-01 00:03:14

On today's date in 1146: French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached a sermon to a crowd at a council in Vézelay, with King Louis VII in attendance, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Santo_Domingo_de_Silos_entronizado_como_obispo%2C_por_Bartolom%C3%A9_Bermejo.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-03-28 23:03:16

On today's date in 1946: The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/U.S._Department_of_State_official_seal.svg/512px-U.S._Department_of_State_official_seal.svg.png #history #grownostr

2024-03-28 14:03:12

On today's date in 1814: War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaíso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels. #history #grownostr

2024-03-27 23:03:14

On today's date in 2020: North Macedonia became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg/1200px-Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg.png #history #grownostr

2024-03-25 23:03:12

On today's date in 1576: Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London. #history #grownostr

2024-03-24 14:03:12

On today's date in 1401: Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.[full citation needed] #history #grownostr

2024-03-24 09:03:15

On today's date in 1794: In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces. #history #grownostr

2024-03-23 14:03:14

On today's date in 1931: Bhagat Singh (pictured), one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Bhagat_Singh_1929.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-03-23 09:03:14

2024-03-21 23:03:14

On today's date in 1800: With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché. #history #grownostr

2024-03-21 14:03:15

On today's date in 1556: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, one of the founders of Anglicanism, was burnt at the stake for heresy in Oxford, England. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Official_portrait_of_The_Lord_Archbishop_of_Canterbury.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-03-18 23:03:12

On today's date in 1673: English lord John Berkeley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers #history #grownostr

2024-03-14 23:03:14

On today's date in 1593: Japanese invasions of Korea: A force of 3,000 Korean soldiers successfully defended Haengju Fortress against 30,000 Japanese invaders. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Siege-of-Busanjin-1592.jpg #history #grownostr

2024-03-14 18:03:14

On today's date in 1900: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard. #history #grownostr

2024-03-14 04:03:12

On today's date in 1591: At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one. #history #grownostr