On today's date in 1581: Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world. #history #grownostr
Today In History
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Events from today in history
On today's date in 1721: Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1851: Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1077: The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1860: The Pony Express, a mail service that became the most direct means of long-distance communication across the United States before the first transcontinental telegraph, began operation. 
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On today's date in 1882: American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1755: Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2015: Gunmen attacked Garissa University College in Kenya, killing 148 people and wounding 79 others. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1979: Spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk, causing at least 68 deaths. 
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On today's date in 1801: French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily-assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey, an epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick (pictured), premiered at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C. 
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On today's date in 1900: Prince George becomes absolute monarch of the Cretan State. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1833: Mexican Texans met at San Felipe de Austin to begin the Convention of 1833. 
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On today's date in 1933: English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual score in Test cricket of 336 not out during a match against New Zealand. 
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On today's date in 1146: Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1146: French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached a sermon to a crowd at a council in Vézelay, with King Louis VII in attendance, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. 
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On today's date in 1999: Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica. 
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On today's date in 1946: The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons. 
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On today's date in 1999: Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica. #history #grownostr
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On today's date in 1814: War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaíso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels. #history #grownostr