On today's date in 1997: An earthquake registering 7.3 Mw struck near Qaen, Iran, killing at least 1,567 and leaving around 50,000 others homeless. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1768: Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1503: Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1671: Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2005: Pope Benedict XVI began the beatification process for his predecessor Pope John Paul II, waiving the standard five years required after the nominee's death. 
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On today's date in 1865: American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1979: Prominent Iranian Jew Habib Elghanian was executed after having been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of various charges, triggering a mass exodus of Jews from Iran. 
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On today's date in 0589: Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1541: Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519). #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1963: In Huế, South Vietnam, soldiers opened fire into a crowd of Buddhists protesting against a government ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Phật Đản, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis. 
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On today's date in 1450: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1937: Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike. 
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On today's date in 1685: Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1593: The Dutch city of Coevorden held by the Spanish, falls to a Dutch and English force. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2010: Exacerbated by high-frequency traders using strategies that have since been banned, major U.S. stock indices dropped nearly 9 percent and quickly rebounded. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1988: Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into the fog-covered mountain of Torghatten in Brønnøy, Norway, killing all 36 people on board. 
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On today's date in 1882: Irish civil servants Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical Irish National Invincibles in Phoenix Park, Dublin. 
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On today's date in 1494: On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1493: Pope Alexander VI (pictured) issued the papal bull Inter caetera, establishing a line of demarcation dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal. 
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On today's date in 1616: Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war. #history #grownostr