On today's date in 1992: Air Inter Flight 148 crashed into the Vosges while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport, France, resulting in 87 deaths. 
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On today's date in 2009: During a national financial crisis, thousands of people protested (pictured) at the Icelandic parliament in Reykjavík. 
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On today's date in 2009: In Washington, D.C., Barack Obama was inaugurated (pictured) as the first African American president of the United States. 
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On today's date in 2018: A group of Taliban gunmen attacked the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle that left at least 21 people dead. 
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On today's date in 1990: The Soviet Red Army violently cracked down on Azeri pro-independence demonstrations in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. 
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On today's date in 1419: Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1520: Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1795: The Batavian Republic was established the day after William V fled the Dutch Republic as a result of the Batavian Revolution in Amsterdam. 
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On today's date in 1520: Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1915: World War I: The first major attack of the German bombing campaign against Britain took place when Zeppelins bombed several towns in Norfolk. 
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On today's date in 474: Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1956: Navvab Safavi, an Iranian Shia cleric and the founder of the fundamentalist group Fada'iyan-e Islam, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'. 
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On today's date in 1806: Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1778: James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". #history #grownostr
On today's date in 532: Nika riots in Constantinople fail. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1961: Three days before leaving office, U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a farewell speech to the nation, in which he warned about the dangers of the military–industrial complex. 
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On today's date in 1562: Representatives of Catherine de' Medici, the regent of France, drew up the Edict of Saint-Germain, providing limited tolerance to the Protestant Huguenots. 
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On today's date in 1562: France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain. #history #grownostr
On today's date in -38: Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean. #history #grownostr