On today's date in 2003: President Kumba Ialá of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a bloodless military coup. 
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On today's date in 1180: Genpei War: Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1914: HMAS AE1 (pictured), the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea; its wreck was not found until 2017. 
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On today's date in 1959: The Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 (model pictured) struck the Moon, becoming the first spacecraft to reach another celestial body. 
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On today's date in 1848: An explosion drove an iron rod through the head of railroad foreman Phineas Gage; his survival and recovery influenced 19th-century discussion of psychology and neuroscience. 
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On today's date in 379: Yax Nuun Ahiin I is crowned as 15th Ajaw of Tikal #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1977: South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth. 
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On today's date in 1634: A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1309: Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada. 
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On today's date in 1565: Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1857: A legion of Mormon militiamen completed a massacre of at least 120 California-bound Arkansas pioneers at Mountain Meadow, Utah. 
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On today's date in 1683: Battle of Vienna: Coalition forces, including the famous winged Hussars, led by Polish King John III Sobieski lift the siege laid by Ottoman forces. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1946: While riding a train to Darjeeling, India, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa (pictured), experienced what she later described as the "call within the call", directing her to "leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". 
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On today's date in 1573: German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew are beheaded in Hamburg. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1724: Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, a chorale cantata based on a passion hymn by Johann Rist. 
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On today's date in 1493: Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1493: Christopher Columbus, with 17 ships and 1,200 men, sails on second voyage from Cadiz. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1493: Ottoman wars in Europe: A large Croatian army intercepted Ottoman forces returning to the Sanjak of Bosnia, but was defeated. 
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On today's date in 1936: Opposed to António de Oliveira Salazar's support of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, the crews of the Portuguese Navy ships NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and NRP Dão mutinied while anchored in the harbour of Lisbon. 
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On today's date in 1380: Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance. #history #grownostr