On today's date in 1957: The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. 
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On today's date in 1633: Forces from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth break the Russian siege of Smolensk. 
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On today's date in 1991: Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. 
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On today's date in 1963: Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule. 
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On today's date in 1789: George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1981: A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven months and ten deaths. 
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On today's date in 939: Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1937: President Rafael Trujillo announced that Dominican troops had begun mass killings of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. 
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On today's date in 1263: Scottish–Norwegian War: Norwegian and Scottish armies fought the Battle of Largs, an inconclusive engagement near the present-day town of Largs, Scotland. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1832: The first political gathering of colonists (president pictured) in Mexican Texas convened to seek reforms from the Mexican government. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 965: Pope John XIII is consecrated. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1787: Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1998: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated. 
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On today's date in 1399: Henry IV is proclaimed king of England. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1882: The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online. 
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On today's date in 1833: The Spanish American wars of independence ended with the death of King Ferdinand VII, with what had once been the Spanish Empire disintegrating into independent Latin American states. 
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On today's date in 1714: The Great Hatred: The Cossacks of the Russian Empire killed about 800 people overnight in Hailuoto. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1789: The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 935: Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1924: A team of U.S. Army Air Service aviators landed in Seattle, Washington, to complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. 
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