On today's date in 1817: An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops at the Battle of Chacabuco. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1659: The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1659: The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1306: In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1567: Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1003: Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2014: Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa, at more than 800,000 years old. 
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On today's date in 457: Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1833: Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1806: Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo in the Caribbean Sea. 
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On today's date in 1597: As part of enforcing Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on Christianity in Japan, twenty-six Catholics, a mix of European missionaries and Japanese converts, were executed (depicted) near Nagasaki by crucifixion and impalement. 
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On today's date in 1999: The Philippine-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in the state's history. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1703: In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1583: Battle of São Vicente takes place off Portuguese Brazil where three English warships led by navigator Edward Fenton fight off three Spanish galleons sinking one in the process. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1963: 113 alleged communists were arrested and detained without trial by Singapore's security agencies. 
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On today's date in 1411: The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia). #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1747: The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1972: The Troubles: On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot 26 civil-rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least 13 people. 
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On today's date in 2017: A lone gunman carried out a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing six people and injuring up to nineteen others. 
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On today's date in 1069: Robert de Comines, appointed Earl of Northumbria by William the Conqueror, rides into Durham, England, where he is defeated and killed by rebels. This incident leads to the Harrying of the North. #history #grownostr