On today's date in 1803: The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 2022: Argentina won the 2022 World Cup. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1583: Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeated Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg's troops at the siege of Godesberg. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1862: American Civil War: Union General Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1983: The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb outside Harrods in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1997: "Dennō Senshi Porygon", an episode of the Japanese television series Pokémon, induced epileptic seizures in 685 children. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1025: Constantine VIII became the sole Byzantine emperor, 63 years after being crowned co-emperor. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1890: Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, was killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota by U.S. Indian agency police. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1317: The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1979: A World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, making it the only human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1864: Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1837: The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only battle of the Upper Canada Rebellion, takes place in Toronto, where the rebels are quickly defeated. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1956: At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1790: The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1904: President Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, justifying the exercise of "international police power" by the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1496: King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of Jewish "heretics" from the country. #history #grownostr

On today's date in -63: Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1928: Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1881: The first issue of Tamperean daily newspaper Aamulehti ("Morning Paper") is published. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1999: NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before it reached the atmosphere of Mars and disappeared. #history #grownostr

On today's date in 1942: Manhattan Project scientists led by Enrico Fermi initiated the first self-sustaining chain reaction in the experimental nuclear reactor Chicago Pile-1. #history #grownostr