On today's date in 2022: Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland; her eldest son Charles III acceded to the throne as King of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms. 
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On today's date in 1571: Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 878: Louis the Stammerer is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope John VIII. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1778: Anglo-French War: Having established an alliance with the United States, France invaded the Caribbean island of Dominica and captured its British fort. 
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On today's date in 1803: British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1803: British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1930: Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a military coup by José Félix Uriburu. 
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On today's date in 1725: Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1590: Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 917: Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1774: New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1781: Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 476: Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 301: San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2017: North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test at Punggye-ri, causing a magnitude-6.3 earthquake. 
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On today's date in 1411: The Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1789: The United States Department of the Treasury is founded. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1985: Hurricane Elena, an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf Coast, made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi, as a Category 3 major hurricane. 
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On today's date in 1604: The Guru Granth Sahib (folio depicted), the religious text of Sikhism, was installed in the Golden Temple in Amritsar. 
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On today's date in 1715: At the age of five, Louis XV becomes king of France in succession to his great-grandfather, King Louis XIV. #history #grownostr