On today's date in 1936: Nationalist rebels attempted a coup against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War. 
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Today In History
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What happened today in history
On today's date in -387: Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1989: American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in California. 
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On today's date in 1981: A structural failure caused a walkway at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., to collapse (damage pictured), killing 114 people and injuring 216 others. 
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On today's date in 1203: The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1862: The garrotting and robbery of James Pilkington, a British member of Parliament, led to a moral panic in London. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1048: Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2007: An earthquake of magnitude .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw6.6 struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. 
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On today's date in 1054: Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an Papal bull (of doubtful validity) of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East-West Schism. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1782: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked that it had "too many notes". 
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On today's date in 1377: King Richard II of England is crowned. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1251: Celebrated by the Carmelite Order-but doubted by modern historians-as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of the Virgin Mary. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 756: An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1381: John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1381: John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1769: An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá leaves its base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California). #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1643: English Civil War: Royalist forces defeated the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Roundway Down near Devizes, Wiltshire. 
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On today's date in 1973: Watergate scandal: Under questioning by Senate investigators, White House deputy chief of staff Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of a secret taping system (tape recorder pictured) in the Oval Office. 
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On today's date in 1973: Watergate scandal: Under questioning by Senate investigators, White House deputy chief of staff Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of a secret taping system (tape recorder pictured) in the Oval Office. #history #grownostr
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On today's date in 1863: Four days of rioting began in New York City in response to laws passed by the U.S. Congress to draft men to fight in the American Civil War. 
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