On today's date in 1800: The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise fails to kill Napoleon Bonaparte. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 502: Chinese emperor Xiao Yan names Xiao Tong his heir designate.[citation needed] #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1294: Pope Boniface VIII is elected, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1814: Representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States sign the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1919: The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was enacted, lifting most of the existing common-law restrictions on women in the United Kingdom. 
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On today's date in 484: The Arian Vandal Kingdom ceases its persecution of Nicene Christianity. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 558: Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1815: The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1769: Sino-Burmese War: The war ends with the Qing dynasty withdrawing from Burma forever. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1216: Pope Honorius III approves the Dominican Order through the papal bull of confirmation Religiosam vitam. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1135: Three weeks after the death of King Henry I of England, Stephen of Blois claims the throne and is privately crowned King of England, beginning the English Anarchy. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1489: The forces of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, take control of Almería from the Nasrid ruler of Granada, Muhammad XIII. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1620: Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1844: The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 69: The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2018: Operatives of the British Special Boat Service boarded the container ship Grande Tema in the Thames Estuary to detain four stowaways who had threatened the crew. 
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On today's date in 1192: Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after the Third Crusade. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1334: Cardinal Jacques Fournier, a Cistercian monk, is elected Pope Benedict XII. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1852: Led by George Cathcart, British troops defeated Basuto and Taung forces at the Battle of Berea in present-day Lesotho, leading to an offer of peace from King Moshoeshoe I. 
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On today's date in 1988: The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, governing international cooperation against the illegal drug trade, opened for signatures. 
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