On today's date in 1977: Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing seven people and injuring 37 people. 
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On today's date in 1790: George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States. 
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On today's date in 1297: François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1918: U.S. president Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post–World War I peace in Europe. 
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On today's date in 1790: George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1894: Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1931: Australian aviator Guy Menzies (pictured) flew from Sydney to New Zealand's West Coast, making the first solo trans-Tasman flight. 
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On today's date in 1785: Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. #history #grownostr
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On today's date in 1979: The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. 
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On today's date in 1492: The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada at the conclusion of the Granada War. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1355: Charles IV of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1492: The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada at the conclusion of the Granada War. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1941: During his State of the Union address, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt presented his Four Freedoms as fundamental freedoms that all people ought to enjoy. 
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On today's date in 2007: The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung. 
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On today's date in 2000: Sri Lankan Tamil politician Kumar Ponnambalam was killed in an assassination suspected to have been sanctioned by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. 
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On today's date in 1953: Waiting for Godot by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, termed the "most significant English language play of the 20th century", premiered in Paris. 
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On today's date in 1900: Irish nationalist leader John Edward Redmond calls for revolt against British rule. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2020: Sembawang Hot Spring Park in Singapore reopened after being redeveloped by the National Parks Board. 
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On today's date in 1762: Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War. #history #grownostr