On today's date in 1977: Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1057: Frederik van Lotharingen elected as first Belgian Pope Stephen IX. #history #grownostr
On today's date in -338: An allied army led by Philip II of Macedon overcame the forces of city-states led by Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony over the majority of ancient Greece. 
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On today's date in 1932: At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics. 
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On today's date in -216: The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1469: Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1469: Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1801: First Barbary War: USS Enterprise, an American schooner, captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of Libya. 
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On today's date in 1971: Apollo program: The Lunar Roving Vehicle was first used during the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon. 
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On today's date in 1492: All remaining Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1498: On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1609: Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1729: Founding of Baltimore, Maryland. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 762: Baghdad is founded. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1914: The first shots of World War I were fired by the Austro-Hungarian river monitor SMS Bodrog on Serbian defences near Belgrade. 
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On today's date in 1148: The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 615: Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1995: Two followers of the Indian mystic Rajneesh were convicted of a 1985 plot to assassinate Charles Turner, the U.S. attorney for the District of Oregon. 
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On today's date in 1540: Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1911: The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began with the departure of SY Aurora from London. 
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