On today's date in 1873: A Dutch military expedition was launched to bombard Banda Aceh, the capital of the Aceh Sultanate in present-day Indonesia, beginning the Aceh War. 
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On today's date in 1985: One of England's worst incidents of football hooliganism occurred when supporters of Luton Town and Millwall rioted before a match at Kenilworth Road stadium. 
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On today's date in 1811: Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1811: Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1851: The first performance of Verdi's Rigoletto took place at La Fenice in Venice (poster pictured). 
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On today's date in 1977: Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory discovered a faint ring system around Uranus. 
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On today's date in 1811: Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1983: Cold War: In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. president Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire". 
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On today's date in 1827: Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1573: A peace treaty brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end, ceding Cyprus from the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire. 
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On today's date in 845: The Abbasid Caliphate executed 42 Byzantine officials who had been captured in the sack of Amorium of 838 for refusing to convert to Islam. 
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On today's date in -12: The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1936: The prototype (pictured) of the Supermarine Spitfire flew for the first time. 
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On today's date in 1824: First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1238: The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1152: Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1875: Bizet's Carmen premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, with mezzo-soprano Célestine Galli-Marié in the title role (pictured). 
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On today's date in 1779: American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2022: Russian forces captured the city of Kherson, the only regional capital to be taken during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 
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On today's date in 1805: Samuel Chase, the only Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to be impeached, was acquitted by the Senate. 
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