On today's date in 455: Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1933: Salvador Lutteroth ran the first Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre event, now the world's oldest professional wrestling promotion in existence, in Mexico City. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1498: The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in. It has been outside since then. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1737: The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km2) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1737: The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km2) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1778: The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1410: End of the Siege of Marienburg: The State of the Teutonic Order repulses the joint Polish—Lithuanian forces. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 0634: Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1777: American Revolutionary War: British troops engaged American forces at the first Battle of Saratoga in New York. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1873: Panic of 1873: The American bank Jay Cooke & Company declared bankruptcy, setting off a chain reaction of bank failures. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1875: The Indianola hurricane dissipated over Mississippi after killing around eight hundred people in Texas. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1714: George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 2018: The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit multiple targets in western Syria, including one that accidentally downed a Russian plane. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1620: Polish-Ottoman War: The Ottoman Empire defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Battle of Cecora. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1462: Thirteen Years' War: A Polish army under Piotr Dunin decisively defeats the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Świecino. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1982: A Lebanese militia under the direct command of Elie Hobeika carried out a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, killing at least 460 civilians. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 681: At the Third Council of Constantinople, Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated, with his support for monothelitism deemed to be heretical. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1620: A determined band of 35 religious dissenters - Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower, jubilant at the prospect of practicing their unorthodox brand of worship in the New World. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1972: Three armed members of the Croatian National Resistance hijacked Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 in an attempt to force the release of those arrested for the assassination of the Yugoslav ambassador the previous year. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1795: Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1556: Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain. #history #grownostr