On today's date in 1885: After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, the Canadian Métis leader and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel was hanged for high treason. 
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On today's date in 1988: The Soviet spacecraft Buran, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight. 
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On today's date in 1864: American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1777: American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1777: American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1969: Apollo 12 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the second crewed flight to land on the moon. 
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On today's date in 1918: The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of Czechoslovakia meets to devise a constitution. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2015: A train derailed in Eckwersheim, France, while performing trials on the high-speed rail line LGV Est. 
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On today's date in 1960: Ruby Bridges and the McDonogh Three became the first black children to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana as part of the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. 
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On today's date in 1002: King Æthelred II ordered the massacre of all Danes in England. 
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On today's date in 1775: American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1002: English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2015: Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others. 
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On today's date in 954: The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1940: World War II: Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis powers. 
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On today's date in 1835: Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1330: Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1028: Constantine VIII died, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1675: Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x). #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1673: Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used. #history #grownostr