On today's date in 1253: Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre. #history #grownostr
Today In History
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What happened today in history
On today's date in 1187: The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1855: The first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was published, and it went on to become one of the most important collections of American poetry. 
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On today's date in 1938: On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial. 
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On today's date in 1754: French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1938: On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial. #history #grownostr
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On today's date in 1767: Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1035: William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 866: Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1724: On the Feast of the Visitation, Bach led the first performance of his Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10, based on the German Magnificat. 
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On today's date in 1816: The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of present-day Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft, depicted in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa (pictured). 
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On today's date in 2013: A Mw 6.1 strike-slip earthquake killed at least 35 people and injured 276 others in the Indonesian province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1964: The Civil Rights Act was signed into law, outlawing segregation in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities that served the general public in the United States. 
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On today's date in 1766: François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1766: François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1643: The Westminster Assembly of Divines first assembled to restructure the Church of England. 
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On today's date in 1098: Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1864: American Civil War: General Sherman's frontal assault against the Confederate Army of Tennessee failed, but did not stop the Union Army from advancing on Atlanta. 
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On today's date in 1848: French authorities suppressed the June Days uprising, in which workers rioted in response to plans to close the National Workshops. 
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On today's date in 1243: Mongol invasions of Anatolia: Mongols achieved a decisive victory over the Seljuq Turks, leading to the decline and disintegration of the Seljuk state. 
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