On today's date in 1800: With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1968: War of Attrition: The Battle of Karameh took place between the Israel Defense Forces and allied troops of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Jordanian Armed Forces. 
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On today's date in 1556: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, one of the founders of Anglicanism, was burnt at the stake for heresy in Oxford, England. 
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On today's date in 1922: The United States Navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier, USS Langley. 
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On today's date in 1206: Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1277: The Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice signed a treaty that renegotiated and extended by two years a previous treaty between them. 
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On today's date in 1812: The Cortes of Cádiz promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1673: English lord John Berkeley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1644: The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 933: After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1783: In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 933: After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1593: Japanese invasions of Korea: A force of 3,000 Korean soldiers successfully defended Haengju Fortress against 30,000 Japanese invaders. 
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On today's date in 1900: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1591: At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1697: Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. 
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On today's date in 1158: German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1912: The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1864: The Great Sheffield Flood killed at least 240 people and damaged more than 600 homes, after a crack in the Dale Dike Reservoir (pictured) caused it to fail. 
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On today's date in 298: Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage. #history #grownostr