On today's date in 550: Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1120: Crusades: The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1362: Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 929: Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III establishes the Caliphate of Córdoba. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1572: Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried and found guilty of treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1782: Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1541: King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith". #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1559: Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1782: Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1815: War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1301: Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1911: Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1943: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Henri Giraud met in Casablanca to plan the Allies' European strategy for the next phase of World War II. 
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On today's date in 1900: Giacomo Puccini's Tosca opens in Rome. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1236: King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1547: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death for treason, on the grounds of having quartered his arms to make them similar to those of the King, Henry VIII of England. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1547: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death for treason, on the grounds of having quartered his arms to make them similar to those of the King, Henry VIII of England. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1822: The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1915: About 30,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the Province of L'Aquila in Italy. 
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On today's date in 1815: War of 1812: British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, in the only battle of the war to take place in the state. 
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