On today's date in 1524: The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 410: The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1689: The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar). #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1557: The Battle of St. Quentin results in Emmanuel Philibert becoming Duke of Savoy. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1303: Chittorgarh falls to the Delhi Sultanate, after which thirty thousand Hindu inhabitants are killed. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1940: The 1940 New England hurricane formed over the Atlantic Ocean; it would go on to cause widespread damage despite never making landfall in the United States. 
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On today's date in 1346: At the Battle of Crécy, an English army easily defeats a French one twice its size. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1248: The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 19: The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2011: Mexican drug war: Fifty-two people are killed in an arson at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico. 
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On today's date in 1215: Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1941: Adolf Hitler ordered the suspension of the T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued in secret for the remainder of World War II. 
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On today's date in 1185: Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1963: Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (pictured) to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to oust Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh Nhu from his unofficial position of power. 
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On today's date in 1244: Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire. #history #grownostr
On today's date in -20: Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.[citation needed] #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1933: The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane made landfall in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and went on to cause at least 47 deaths in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region. 
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On today's date in 1485: The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1642: King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War. 
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