On today's date in 1812: The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1751: The Theresian Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 835: Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1780: Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1545: The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1294: Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1769: Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1577: Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1941: The Holocaust: At a Nazi Party meeting in the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent destruction of the Jewish people. 
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On today's date in 1388: Unable to defend her possessions, Maria of Enghien sold the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1862: American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1964: Jomo Kenyatta became the first president of the Republic of Kenya. 
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On today's date in 1920: Irish War of Independence: Following an Irish Republican Army ambush of an Auxiliary patrol, British forces burned and looted numerous buildings in Cork. 
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On today's date in 361: Julian enters Constantinople as sole Roman Emperor. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1972: Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission, landed on the Moon. 
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On today's date in 969: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1768: The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1884: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada, two months earlier than in the US. 
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On today's date in 1541: Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1520: Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. #history #grownostr