On today's date in 65: The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. #history #grownostr
Today In History
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What happened today in history
On today's date in 531: Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria). #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1775: American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1831: The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1521: Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1984: Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London, resulting in an 11-day police siege of the building and a breakdown of Libya–United Kingdom relations. 
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On today's date in 1797: Citizens of Verona begin an unsuccessful eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2007: In one of the deadliest shooting incidents in United States history, a gunman killed 32 people and wounded over 20 more before committing suicide at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia (memorial pictured). 
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On today's date in 1919: Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in Lithuania) from the Red Army. 
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On today's date in 1780: Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1917: World War I: Several French army corps began a massive assault against the German-occupied Chemin des Dames ridge, south of Laon, France. 
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On today's date in 1989: The Hillsborough disaster (memorial pictured), a human crush that caused 97 deaths in the worst disaster in British sporting history, occurred during an FA Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield. 
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On today's date in 1816: Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1849: Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2013: Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1204: Troops of the Fourth Crusade entered Constantinople and began a sack of the city, temporarily dissolving the Byzantine Empire. 
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On today's date in 1861: Confederate forces began a bombardment of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War. 
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On today's date in 1689: William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1963: Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in terris, the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will" rather than only to Catholics. 
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On today's date in 1970: In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles. 
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#history #grownostr