On today's date in 2008: Egyptian workers staged an illegal general strike, two days before key municipal elections. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1320: The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1776: American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1536: Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1863: New Zealand Wars: The invasion of the Waikato ended after the Kīngitanga forces of King Tāwhiao abandoned their pā at Te Tiki o te Ihingarangi and migrated east to what became known as the King Country. 
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On today's date in 1902: A spectator stand collapsed (pictured) during a football match at Ibrox Park in Govan, Scotland, killing 25 supporters and injuring more than 500 others. 
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On today's date in 1614: In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1536: Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2013: A building collapsed on tribal land in Thane in Maharashtra, India, causing 74 deaths. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1268: A five-year Byzantine-Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1660: Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists and opponents of the monarchy for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum. #history #grownostr
On today's date in -503: Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1581: Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1721: Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1851: Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1077: The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1860: The Pony Express, a mail service that became the most direct means of long-distance communication across the United States before the first transcontinental telegraph, began operation. 
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On today's date in 1882: American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1755: Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2015: Gunmen attacked Garissa University College in Kenya, killing 148 people and wounding 79 others. #history #grownostr