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Today In History posts on X about history, the first, war, germany the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social category influence countries 40.41% travel destinations 18.65% automotive brands 1.55% mlb 1.55% ncaa football 1.04% social networks 1.04% technology brands 1.04% stocks 1.04% currencies 0.52% finance 0.52%

Social topic influence history #3934, the first 7.77%, war #4436, germany #2516, age of 6.22%, france 4.66%, prime minister 4.66%, in the 4.66%, italy 4.15%, new york city 4.15%

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"14 Feb 1879: A former slave #Republican Senator Blanche Bruce becomes the first black person to preside over the senate. He escaped #slavery at the start of the Civil War moved to #Kansas and then attended #Oberlin College before moving to Mississippi. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2W1W2hg https://amzn.to/2W1W2hg"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:55Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Feb 1992: The #Maastricht Treaty is signed by leaders of [--] European nations in Maastricht Netherlands establishing the European Union (EU). The treaty represented a major step in #European integration creating a common framework for economic political and social cooperation. It also laid the groundwork for the #euro as a shared currency. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/4qfuLQC https://amzn.to/4qfuLQC"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:42Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"15 Feb 1961: #Sabena Flight [---] crashed in Berg-Kampenhout Belgium killing all [--] members of the U.S. figure #skating team. The team was going to the [----] World Figure Skating Championships in Prague. A total of [--] people lost their lives. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3jMANrk https://amzn.to/3jMANrk"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:36Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"15 Feb 1989: The #Soviet Union announces that all of its #troops have left #Afghanistan after nine years of war. The #Soviets lost more than [-----] troops during the war. #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2ZeZAuT https://amzn.to/2ZeZAuT"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:25Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"15 Feb 1942: During World War II the #British surrender #Singapore to Japanese forces marking one of the most devastating losses in British #military history. Roughly [-----] British Indian Australian and local forces surrendered. #WWII #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3ahPOy7 https://amzn.to/3ahPOy7"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:50Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"15 Feb 1943: The anti-Nazi White Rose members Alexander Schmorell Hans Scholl and Willi Graf write Down with Hitler and Freedom on the walls of Munich University and other buildings. #Arrests of White Rose members by the #Gestapo began on February [--]. #History #OTD #WW2 #ad https://amzn.to/3dc3Cfp https://amzn.to/3dc3Cfp"
X Link 2026-02-16T01:00Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"15 Feb 1898: The battleship the USS #Maine explodes in #Havana Harbor in Cuba killing over [---] crew. Though the causemine or accidentis unclear the U.S. public outrage blamed Spain fueling calls for war. Remember the Maine became a rallying cry and the incident helped trigger the Spanish-American War. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/46uisJ9 https://amzn.to/46uisJ9"
X Link 2026-02-16T03:24Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"10 Feb 1763: The Treaty of #Paris ending the #French and Indian War (aka the Sevens' Year War) goes into effect. Under terms of the treaty #France ceded #Canada to Great Britain. #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2MTJaoS https://amzn.to/2MTJaoS"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:52Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"10 Feb 1840: United Kingdom's #Queen Victoria marries her first #cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. They had nine children. #royalty #History #BritishHistory #OTD #Britain #ad https://amzn.to/36Zq083 https://amzn.to/36Zq083"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:16Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"12 Feb 1912: [--] years before the outset of World War I #French General Joseph Joffre advocates for a pre-emptive strike against #Germany through neutral Belgium but Prime Minister Raymond Poincare refused since such an invasion would likely alienate the British and could push #Belgium to side with Germany. #WWI #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3sn2Non https://amzn.to/3sn2Non"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:24Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"14 Feb 2003: Dolly the Sheep the first #mammal to be cloned dies from a progressive #lung disease at the age of [--]. She was #cloned by the Roslin Institute in Scotland. #History #science #RIP #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/33lgfTa https://amzn.to/33lgfTa"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:04Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"15 Feb 1564: Italian #astronomer and #physicist Galileo #Galilei is born in Pisa Italy. He uses a #telescope to advance the theory that the Sun not the Earth was the center of the solar system. He died on January [--] [----] in Arcetri Italy. #Science #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3jMBxwC https://amzn.to/3jMBxwC"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:01Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"16 Feb 600: As the bubonic #plague is raging Europe #Pope Gregory I known as Gregory the Great is thought to have decreed that one say "God bless you" to anyone who #sneezes in order to protect against becoming ill. #history #ad https://amzn.to/3bcrTzk https://bit.ly/3rdxeQQ https://amzn.to/3bcrTzk https://bit.ly/3rdxeQQ"
X Link 2026-02-16T08:15Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"1 Jan 1739: French #explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier discovers the most remote island in the world with the nearest land [----] miles away. The #island is named #Bouvet Island after him. The island is now a dependency of Norway. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3rJX78s https://amzn.to/3rJX78s"
X Link 2026-01-01T17:25Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"4 Jan 1877: U.S. #railroad and shipping magnate Cornelius #Vanderbilt dies. His estate was worth an estimated $105 million more than all the money in the U.S. Treasury. In [----] dollars it would be worth $143 billion. #billionaire #History #wealthy #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3884Aqr https://amzn.to/3884Aqr"
X Link 2026-01-04T15:55Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"12 Jan 1773: The #Charleston Museum in South Carolina is founded. It is the first and oldest #museum in the United States. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/4svSCxR https://amzn.to/4svSCxR"
X Link 2026-01-13T06:01Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"29 Jan 1886: Germany's Karl #Benz patents the "Benz Patent-Motorwagen" the world's first successful gasoline-driven car. #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #invention #ad https://amzn.to/3u0R6If https://amzn.to/3u0R6If"
X Link 2026-01-29T20:38Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"30 Jan 1943: The Vichy #Militia (Milice) is created by the Vichy #French government. It was a paramilitary force created to combat the French Resistance during World War II. Members of the #Milice were subject to reprisals after the Liberation of France. #History #OTD #WWII #ad https://amzn.to/2M8yEKp https://amzn.to/2M8yEKp"
X Link 2026-01-31T03:20Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"30 Jan 1937: German #Chancellor Adolf Hitler withdraws Germanys signature from the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty that basically brought an end to World War I. #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3pAH6Ag https://amzn.to/3pAH6Ag"
X Link 2026-01-31T05:42Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"31 Jan 1956: #British author A.A. Milne who created "Winnie-the-Pooh" dies in Hartfield England at the age of [--]. He was born on January [--] [----] in London England. #WinniethePooh #History #OTD #cartoon #ad https://amzn.to/36mucOH https://amzn.to/36mucOH"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:14Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"31 Jan 1865: The U.S. House of Representatives approves the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment abolished #slavery in the United States. The amendment was later ratified by the states legally ending centuries of enslavement and reshaping #American law and society. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3NNKY1V https://amzn.to/3NNKY1V"
X Link 2026-02-01T05:46Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"1 Feb 1913: After the original was torn down Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City as the largest #train station in the world. The first train the #Boston Express left at midnight on February [--]. #NYC #trains #subway #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/36sU9fz https://amzn.to/36sU9fz"
X Link 2026-02-01T12:42Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"1 Feb 1851: English #author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley who wrote Frankenstein dies in London England. She was born on August [--] [----] also in London. #books #History #writer #OTD #RIP #Frankenstein #ad https://amzn.to/34hiCpV https://amzn.to/34hiCpV"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:02Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"2 Feb 962: Otto I aka #Otto the Great is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by #Pope John XII in Old St. Peter's #Basilica in Rome. He defeated the #Magyars at the Battle of #Lechfeld in [---] ending the #Hungarian invasions of western Europe. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3AHst4G https://amzn.to/3AHst4G"
X Link 2026-02-02T10:22Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"2 Feb 1653: New #Amsterdam receives its municipal rights becoming a city. It was renamed New York on September [--] [----] after Englands James Duke of York. #NewYorkCity #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3rgJpsX https://amzn.to/3rgJpsX"
X Link 2026-02-02T12:40Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"2 Feb 1930: Independence fighter Ho Chi Minh founds the #Communist Party in #Vietnam as part of his effort to oust #French colonial occupiers. #OTD #HistoryMatters #History #ad https://amzn.to/3AKHBy7 https://amzn.to/3AKHBy7"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:25Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"3 Feb 1014: King Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark #Norway and #England dies in England. He raided #England after the St. Brice's Day Massacre in [----] when England's #Danish population was killed. He became England's king on #Christmas in [----] dying five weeks later. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3pJlX72 https://amzn.to/3pJlX72"
X Link 2026-02-03T08:34Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"3 Feb 1865: #President Abraham #Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens attend the #Hampton Roads Conference attempting to end the U.S. Civil War. Lincoln insisted no armistice until the South acknowledged Federal authority. The Confederates wanted an armistice first. #OTD #History #ad https://amzn.to/3apInUI https://amzn.to/3apInUI"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:21Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"3 Feb 1933: A few days after becoming Germanys chancellor Adolf Hitler tells his generals the purpose of the #Wehrmacht was for Conquering new Lebensraum in the East and ruthlessly Germanizing it. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3AHybU0 https://amzn.to/3AHybU0"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:00Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"3 Feb 1830: The independence of #Greece is formally recognized by the #London Protocol. Greece had been ruled for centuries by the Ottomans. The agreement weakened #Ottoman influence in Europe. #Greek independence also inspired other #Balkan nationalist movements in the 19th century. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/4taSrs0 https://amzn.to/4taSrs0"
X Link 2026-02-04T07:20Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"4 Feb 2004: The social networking website #Facebook is founded by Mark #Zuckerberg at #Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts. #socialmedia #SocialNetwork #history #friend #OTD #history #ad https://amzn.to/3cDY4tT https://amzn.to/3cDY4tT"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:54Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"4 Feb 1789: The Electoral College unanimously elects George #Washington to be the first #president of the United States and John Adams as Vice President. Ten states cast electoral votes. New York didn't field electors nor did Rhode Island and North Carolina since they hadn't ratified the Constitution. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3kM2qW1 https://amzn.to/3kM2qW1"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:07Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"4 Feb 1945: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill U.S. #President Franklin D. Roosevelt and #Soviet dictator Joseph #Stalin meet at #Livadia Palace in the #Crimea beginning the #Yalta Conference to determine how to organize post-war Europe. The #Soviets would renege on their promise to hold free elections in Poland. #WWII #FDR #WW2 #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3axzLez https://amzn.to/3axzLez"
X Link 2026-02-05T06:11Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Feb 1777: #Georgia adopts its constitution. It's the 1st state to end #primogeniture (eldest male son inherits largest part of estate) and entail (landed estate will reside with only one male heir) making it a haven for younger sons of #British gentry. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2Msu9uk https://amzn.to/2Msu9uk"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:00Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Feb 1824: #Congressman John Edward #Bouligny of Louisiana is born in New Orleans. He strongly opposed Louisianas secession from the U.S. to join the Confederacy and was the only member of the #Louisiana delegation not to resign from Congress. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3pS05GD https://amzn.to/3pS05GD"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:09Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Feb 1788: Conservative #British Prime Minister Robert "Bobbie" Peel is born in Ramsbottom England. He founded of the British #Conservative Party and was the founder of the modern #police force hence the nickname Bobbies for police in Britain. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2MsxGsA https://amzn.to/2MsxGsA"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:38Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Feb [---] BC: Roman forces defeat #Carthaginian forces during the Siege of Carthage ending the Third Punic War. #Rome forces captured and utterly destroyed the city of Carthage ending decades of rivalry between Rome and the Carthaginian (Punic) Republic. The victory secured #Roman dominance over the western Mediterranean eliminated #Carthage as a #military power and paved the way for Romes expansion across #Africa and into the #Hellenistic East. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/4keIw0v https://amzn.to/4keIw0v"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:01Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Feb 1895: #Baseball great George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. is born in Baltimore Maryland. He played [--] years and held the home run record at [---] until Hank Aaron broke it in [----]. Ruth played for the Boston Red Sox the New York Yankees and Boston Braves. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/40r3L4X https://amzn.to/40r3L4X"
X Link 2026-02-06T10:40Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Feb 1952: Elizabeth II becomes #queen regnant of the United Kingdom after her father #King George VI dies. She is the longest serving #British monarch. She died on September [--] [----] at Balmoral Castle. #History #BritishHistory #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/374ojX9 https://amzn.to/374ojX9"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:02Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Feb 1989: Round Table Talks begin in Warsaw Poland. The talks were between the communist #Polish government and the banned union #Solidarity and other opposition groups. It led to the fall of #communism in Poland. #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3tygB0Y https://amzn.to/3tygB0Y"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:47Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Feb 1990: Brett #Hull of the St. Louis Blues #hockey team scores his 50th goal making him and his father Bobby the first father/son duo #NHL players to score [--] goals. #sports #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3Gfro5p https://amzn.to/3Gfro5p"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:36Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Feb 1993: U.S. #tennis great Arthur #Ashe dies of #AIDS at the age of [--] in New York City. He was the first black man to win a Grand Slam when he won the U.S. Open as an #amateur in [----]. #ArthurAshe #NewYork #GandSlam #History #sports #OTD #RIP #ad https://amzn.to/36OXZQr https://amzn.to/36OXZQr"
X Link 2026-02-07T03:22Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Feb 1922: The# Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington D.C. by the United States Britain Japan France and #Italy following World War I. The treaty aimed to prevent a #naval arms race by limiting battleship and #aircraft carrier tonnage among the signatories. It also established ratios for #ship construction that temporarily eased #military tensions and promoted diplomacy though Japan eventually withdrew in the 1930s as global conflict loomed. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/4k9CU7K https://amzn.to/4k9CU7K"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:47Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Feb 1301: Edward of Caernarion later #King Edward II of England is named Prince of Wales. It is the first time the eldest son of the King of #England was named the Prince of Wales making Edward II the first of the current line of Princes of Wales. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3pWcPMJ https://amzn.to/3pWcPMJ"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:28Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Feb 1964: The #British invasion as it is known begins as the #rocknroll group The Beatles arrive in New York City New York. #TheBeatles #music #NYC #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3cPg18T https://amzn.to/3cPg18T"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:13Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Feb 1976: #Toronto Maple Leafs Hall of Fame #hockey player Darryl Sittler sets the #NHL record for most points scored in one game. He recorded ten points (six goals four assists) in a game against the #Boston Bruins. #OTD #History #Sports #ad https://amzn.to/2MHoCjt https://amzn.to/2MHoCjt"
X Link 2026-02-07T22:28Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Feb 1688: #Princess of Orange Marie Louise van Hessen-Kassel is born in #Kassel in what is now Germany. She died in [----]. Remarkably she is an ancestor of all currently reigning #monarchs in Europe. #History #EuropeanHistory #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/36OHvba https://amzn.to/36OHvba"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:52Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"8 Feb 1587: Mary Queen of Scots a Catholic is beheaded after she was allegedly involved in the plot to #murder her cousin #protestant Queen Elizabeth I in what was known as the #Babington Plot. #History #EnglishHistory #OTD #HistoryMatters #ad https://amzn.to/3jtcvT8 https://amzn.to/3jtcvT8"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:25Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"8 Feb 1988: At [--] Alfred Wetzler dies. He is one of the first #Jewish prisoners of #Auschwitz concentration camps to escape. He did so with Rudolf Vrba both of whom were from Slovakia. They wrote the important VrbaWetzler report which details the horrors of Auschwitz. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3VIgn7Q https://amzn.to/3VIgn7Q"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:19Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"8 Feb 1937: #President Franklin D. #Roosevelt nominates #Oklahoman Alfred P. Murrah to be a judge. At the time he was the youngest person named to the federal bench. The federal building destroyed in the #Oklahoma City bombing on April [--] [----] is named after him. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3aH9RFj https://amzn.to/3aH9RFj"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:03Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"8 Feb 1950: The Staatssicherheit better known as the Stasi is founded in #communist East Germany. It was known as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world. It dissolved in [----] after the fall of the Berlin Wall. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/36UpCI2 https://amzn.to/36UpCI2"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:38Z 516.3K followers, [----] engagements

"8 Feb 1904: The Russo-Japanese War begins as #Admiral Togo Heiachiro attacks seven #Russia ships at Port Arthur Korea. The Treaty of Portsmouth negotiated in Maine ended the war on September [--] [----]. President Teddy #Roosevelt was instrumental in the negotiations. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2N5D4lj https://amzn.to/2N5D4lj"
X Link 2026-02-09T05:04Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Feb 1971: Baseball great Satchel #Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be elected into the #Baseball Hall of Fame. In [----] Paige was inducted into the #Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame. He played there from 1948-1949. #MLB #HOF #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/36UOK1i https://amzn.to/36UOK1i"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:46Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Feb 1943: The Battle of #Guadalcanal ends as the #Allies win one of their first major offensive in the #Pacific theater during World War II against Japan. #WWII #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #Navy #marines #ad https://amzn.to/36UWfp4 https://amzn.to/36UWfp4"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:53Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Feb 1979: An ultraloyal unit of the #Shah of Irans Imperial Guard makes a final stand against revolutionaries but the Imperial Guard is defeated the next day. The Shah had left the country for the last time on January [--] less than a month earlier. #History #OTD #Iran #ad https://amzn.to/47LXW5t https://amzn.to/47LXW5t"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:27Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Feb 1946: #Soviet dictator Joseph #Stalin gives a national #radio address stating that another war is inevitable because of the "#capitalist development of the world economy" in what is described as the beginning of the Cold War. #History #OTD #ColdWar #ad https://amzn.to/3tED6kG https://amzn.to/3tED6kG"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:01Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Feb 1881: Russian #novelist and author Fyodor Dostoyevsky best known for "Crime and Punishment" dies from a pulmonary hemorrhage at the age of [--] in St. Petersburg Russia. #History #author #book #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/36UQJmg https://amzn.to/36UQJmg"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:18Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Feb 1895: #YMCA physical #education director William G. Morgan invented what is now known as the game of #volleyball in Holyoke Massachusetts. He originally called it Mintonette. #sport #fun #history #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3J01u7k https://amzn.to/3J01u7k"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:24Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Feb 1969: The first flight of Boeing's [---] airplane occurs. It was a test flight flown by Jack Waddell and Brien Wygle. #fly #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3cUZhNO https://amzn.to/3cUZhNO"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:38Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"10 Feb 1945: During Operation Hannibal the SS General von Steuben is sunk while evacuating German #soldiers and civilian refugees. Some [----] people died. It was torpedoed by the #Soviet submarine S-13 which [--] days earlier sunk the MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the worst loss of life in nautical history. #OTD #WW2 #History #ad https://amzn.to/3ldFCPp https://amzn.to/3ldFCPp"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:07Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"10 Feb 1962: The U.S. and Soviet Union exchange captured American #U2 pilot Francis Gary #Powers and American student Frederic #Pryor for #Soviet #spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel. Hhistory #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2MO4kVq https://amzn.to/2MO4kVq"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:14Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"10 Feb1989: Ron #Brown becomes the first African-American to lead a major U.S. #political party when he is elected #chairman of the #Democratic National Committee. #DNC #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3tI5xym https://amzn.to/3tI5xym"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:32Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"10 Feb 1940: The communist #Soviet Union begins large-scale deportations of Polish #civilians from occupied eastern #Poland to remote regions of the USSR. Thousands were sent to labor camps reflecting brutal policies that strained political relations and foreshadowed wider Soviet #repression during World War II. Recall Nazi #Germany and the #Soviets had agreed in a secret protocol to divide up Poland. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3On5rL7 https://amzn.to/3On5rL7"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:39Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"11 Feb 1929: The #Lateran Treaty is signed between #Italy and the Holy See recognizing #Vatican City as an independent state. The #Catholic church is also given compensation over the loss of the #Papal States in [----]. #History #OTD #HolySee #ad https://amzn.to/3qaQISO https://amzn.to/3qaQISO"
X Link 2026-02-11T08:15Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"11 Feb 1941: [----] #Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie testifies before the #Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of #President Franklin D. Roosevelts (D) Lend Lease bill which he had come out in favor of on January [--] [----]. Roosevelt had defeated Wilkie just three months before. The bill which Wilkie was instrumental in helping get enacted provided aid to #Britain in their war against Nazi Germany. The U.S. wouldnt enter World War II until December [--] [----]. #History #OTD #WW2 #ad https://amzn.to/42SDboC https://amzn.to/42SDboC"
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"11 Feb 1847: American #inventor Thomas A. #Edison is born in Milan Ohio. He invented [----] items including the electric light bulb and was a #pioneer of the #movie industry. #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #HappyBirthday #ad https://amzn.to/3B8sPBs https://amzn.to/3B8sPBs"
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X Link 2026-02-12T10:27Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"12 Feb 1554: #Lady Jane Grey aka The Nine Day Queen is #executed for treason. She was the disputed #Queen of #England and #Ireland in [----] from July 10-19. #History #HistoryMatters #historymaker #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3d0BMTr https://amzn.to/3d0BMTr"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:49Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

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X Link 2026-02-12T17:38Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"12 Feb 1809: English #scientist and naturalist Charles #Darwin is born in Shrewsbury England. He died on April [------] in Downe England. #evolution #History #HistoryMatters #historyrmaker #OTD #HappyBirthday #ad https://amzn.to/3HHOO4F https://amzn.to/3HHOO4F"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:01Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"12 Feb 2000: American #cartoonist Charles M. Schulz who created #Peanuts and the characters Charlie Brown Snoopy among others dies at age [--] in Santa Rosa California. He was born on Nov. [--] [----] in #Minneapolis Minnesota. #RIP #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2LEHI9n https://amzn.to/2LEHI9n"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:16Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"12 Feb 1804: German #philosopher Immanuel Kant dies at the age of [--] in Knigsberg Prussia. His work fundamentally reshapes Western philosophy particularly through his "Critique of Pure Reason" which challenges how humans understand knowledge morality and #reason itself. Kants ideas influence everything from modern #ethics and #political theory to science and aesthetics making him one of historys most consequential thinkers. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/4kjaCrr https://amzn.to/4kjaCrr"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:41Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

"13 Feb 1945: The Battle of Budapest ends as the #Soviets defeat the #Germans near the end of World War II. The Soviets had encircled #Budapest for [--] days before the Germans surrendered. #WWII #WW2 #OTD #History #HistoryMatters #ad https://amzn.to/2Za9YDW https://amzn.to/2Za9YDW"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:30Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"13 Feb 1258: Hulagu Khan and his #Mongol army capture Baghdad. Hulagu had the Abbasid #Caliph al-Musta'sim Bilah killed as well as much of the [------] population of the city. The sacking of the city shocked the #Islamic world. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/48ZSvAh https://amzn.to/48ZSvAh"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:56Z 516.4K followers, [----] engagements

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X Link 2026-02-14T00:40Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Feb 1783: The Great Siege of #Gibraltar ends after nearly four years after #Spanish and #French forces fail to retake the territory from Britain. The siege was one of the longest in #British military history confirming Gibraltars strategic importance in controlling access to the #Mediterranean Sea. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3NNoMVM https://amzn.to/3NNoMVM"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:39Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"8 Feb 1945: As World War II nears its end #Paraguay declares war on Germany. Paraguay had ended #diplomatic relations with #Germany in [----]. #History #OTD #WWII #WW2 #HistoryMatters #ad https://amzn.to/2YTD7mH https://amzn.to/2YTD7mH"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:19Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"13 Feb 1923: U.S. test #pilot and retired General Chuck #Yeager is born in Myra West Virginia. He is the first person to break the sound barrier. He broke it on October [--] [----] while flying an X-1 at #Mach [----] at an altitude of [-----] ft. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3784vC1 https://amzn.to/3784vC1"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:42Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

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X Link 2026-02-14T15:24Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"14 Feb 1919: The PolishSoviet #War begins and lasts until March [----]. As a result the Treaty of Riga signed on March [--] [----] grants Poland control over present-day western #Ukraine and western #Belarusterritory it would lose after World War II. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3piKIG4 https://amzn.to/3piKIG4"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:52Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Feb 1911: #Republican President Ronald #Reagan is born in Tampico Illinois. He died on June [--] [----] at the age of [--] in Los Angeles California. #History #HistoryMatters #historymaker #OTD #HappyBirthday #ad https://amzn.to/36PcHXP https://amzn.to/36PcHXP"
X Link 2026-02-07T01:00Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

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"11 Feb 1990: Future South #African President Nelson #Mandela is released from #prison after serving [--] years. He would become #president of the country on May [--] [----]. #SouthAfrica #History #HistoryMatters #historymaker #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3b8uTx1 https://amzn.to/3b8uTx1"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:33Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

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X Link 2026-02-13T15:21Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"14 Feb 1919: German #physicist Albert Einstein age [--] divorces Mileva #Maric after [--] years of marriage. Later that year #Einstein would marry his first cousin Elsa #Lwenthal. #History #scientist #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3d6GX4l https://amzn.to/3d6GX4l"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:13Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"14 Feb 2005: YouTube the American video-sharing website is founded. It was purchased by #Google for $1.65 billion in November [----]. #Internet #History #search #SearchEngine #video #OTD @YouTube #ad https://amzn.to/2OBlRRq https://amzn.to/2OBlRRq"
X Link 2026-02-14T22:41Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"14 Feb 1978: #Texas Instruments is issued a #patent for the first "micro on a chip". #chip #microchip #computers #History #technology @TexasInstrumen #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3b1Gk9F https://amzn.to/3b1Gk9F"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:29Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"14 Feb 1989: The #Ayatollah Khomeini Irans Supreme Leader issues a fatwa for author Salman #Rushdie over his book The Satanic Verses. The decree ignites global #debate over free speech religion and state-sponsored violence forcing Rushdie into hiding. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3Od0ODn https://amzn.to/3Od0ODn"
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"15 Feb [---] BC: #Greek philosopher #Socrates is sentenced to #death in #Athens for refusing to recognize the #gods of the state introducing new #deities and for corrupting the youth. His death sentence required him to drink #poison hemlock. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3qkZzBc https://amzn.to/3qkZzBc"
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"15 Feb 1797: Famous #piano maker Henry E. #Steinway is born in what is now Langelsheim Germany. He founded the piano company Steinway & Sons. He was born Heinrich E. Steinweg and anglicized his name in [----] [--] years after coming to the United States. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/37b4ygz https://amzn.to/37b4ygz"
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"16 Feb 1909: #Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary annexed #Bosnia and #Herzegovina from the #Ottoman Empire in October [----]. This is known as the First #Balkan Crisis. World War I would break out just a few years later in [----]. #History #OTD #WWI #ad https://amzn.to/3bbgsrF https://amzn.to/3bbgsrF"
X Link 2026-02-16T10:38Z 516.5K followers, [----] engagements

"27 Sept 1940: During the Battle of Britain #British police count the largest number of civilians sheltering in subway / tube stations in London during an intense Nazi #German bombing raid. The total was some [------] or about 5% of those citizens remaining in London. Contrary to popular belief few Brits sequestered themselves in the underground. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3QESUAH https://amzn.to/3QESUAH"
X Link 2025-09-27T14:44Z 512.7K followers, [----] engagements

"27 Sept 1389: #Italian banker #politician and de facto ruler of #Florence during much of Italian Renaissance Cosimo de Medici is born in Florence. #history #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/33ZsXDb https://amzn.to/33ZsXDb"
X Link 2025-09-27T21:33Z 512.7K followers, [----] engagements

"27 Sept 1066: William the #Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the #Somme river in what is today #France to begin what would become the #Norman conquest of England. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3kKQC0Q https://amzn.to/3kKQC0Q"
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"27 Sept 1905: Albert #Einstein has his paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content" published. The paper included the now famous equation E=mc. #science #physics #History #EMC2 #ad https://amzn.to/2S0LOs1 https://amzn.to/2S0LOs1"
X Link 2025-09-28T02:13Z 512.5K followers, [----] engagements

"28 Sept 1850: #Congress outlaws flogging as a form of punishment in the U.S. #Navy when it passes the naval appropriations bill. The punishment had been used in the Navy for [--] years. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3ZuIEi2 https://amzn.to/3ZuIEi2"
X Link 2025-09-28T07:10Z 512.6K followers, [----] engagements

"28 Sept. 1939: The German-Soviet Treaty of Friendship a #secret supplementary protocol of the [----] Hitler-Stalin Pact issigned. It was signed after the joint invasion of #Poland and delineated the new borders between the two countries. #WW2 #History #ad https://amzn.to/3CUHJey https://amzn.to/3CUHJey"
X Link 2025-09-28T11:56Z 512.5K followers, [----] engagements

"28 Sept 1891: American #author Herman Melville who wrote among other books Moby Dick dies at the age of [--] in New York City. #MobyDick #history #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2S6aHmd https://amzn.to/2S6aHmd"
X Link 2025-09-28T19:14Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"28 Sept 1745: #God Save the King (or Queen) which would become the #British national anthem is first performed at the #Drury Lane Theatre. The #composer of the #anthem is unknown but some give John Bull credit. #history #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/369s5yE https://amzn.to/369s5yE"
X Link 2025-09-29T00:16Z 512.6K followers, [----] engagements

"28 Sept 1781: During the #American Revolutionary War Franco-American forces led by General George Washington begin the Siege of Yorktown results in a decisive #victory that will end the war. The siege ends on October [--] when #British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders. #USHistory #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/48oOCYc https://amzn.to/48oOCYc"
X Link 2025-09-29T04:21Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"29 Sept 1911: The Italo-Turkish War begins as #Italy declares #war on the #Ottoman Empire. It was the first war where #aircraft were used. They were used in both reconnaissance and #bombing missions. #history #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3j8DD8N https://amzn.to/3j8DD8N"
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"29 Sept 1938: Trying to avoid World War II a deal been #German dictator Adolf Hitler #Italian dictator Benito Mussolini #British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and #French Prime Minister douard Daladier agree to the #Munich Agreement which gives the #Sudetenland in #Czechoslovakia to the Germans. The agreement would be signed the next day on September [--]. #History #WW2 #WWII #HistoryMatters #ad https://amzn.to/4namaOi https://amzn.to/4namaOi"
X Link 2025-09-29T12:02Z 512.6K followers, [---] engagements

"29 Sept 1758: British Vice #Admiral Horatio Nelson is born in Burnham Thorpe England. He led the Royal #Navy in Britains greatest naval victory at the Battle of Trafalgar where he was killed by a #French sharpshooter on October [--] [----]. #history #ad https://amzn.to/334VXdv https://amzn.to/334VXdv"
X Link 2025-09-29T14:29Z 512.7K followers, [----] engagements

"29 Sept [---] BC: The #Greek fleet under #Themistocles defeats the #Persian fleet under #Xerxes I at the Battle of Salamis. The battle occurred just a few weeks after the famous Battle of Thermopylae. #History #ad https://amzn.to/335QdA7 https://amzn.to/335QdA7"
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"29 Sept 1941: The German #Einsatzgruppen begin the infamous #massacre at Babi Yar ravine near Kiev Ukraine. Some [-----] Ukrainians [-----] of whom were #Jews are killed. #holocaust #WW2 #WWII #history #OTD #BabiYar #ad https://amzn.to/3cCAVpQ https://amzn.to/3cCAVpQ"
X Link 2025-09-30T02:01Z 512.6K followers, [--] engagements

"29 Sept 1959: 19-year old Arati Gupta Saha becomes the first #Indian and #Asian woman to #swim across the English Channel. She also represented India in the [----] Olympics held in Helsinki Finland swimming the breaststroke. #India #first #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3kTrup2 https://amzn.to/3kTrup2"
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"30 Sept 1938: After #British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and #German dictator Adolf Hitler agree to a plebiscite for the #Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia #Poland demands the cession of the#Zaolzie region of #Czechoslovakia due to its large Polish population. The #Czechs do not comply and #Poland begins to occupy the territory starting on October [--]. #ad https://amzn.to/4klvYnd https://amzn.to/4klvYnd"
X Link 2025-09-30T09:33Z 512.5K followers, [----] engagements

"30 Sept 1966: Bechuanaland a protectorate of Britain declares its independence. It would become the Republic of Botswana located in southern Africa. #History #OTD #botswana #ad https://amzn.to/36maJyq https://amzn.to/36maJyq"
X Link 2025-09-30T12:02Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"30 Sept 1955: U.S. #actor James Dean dies in a #car wreck at the age of [--]. He was born on February [--] [----] in Marion Indiana. #JamesDean #history #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/349WPwH https://amzn.to/349WPwH"
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"30 Sept 1928: Romanian-born Elie Wiesel #Auschwitz survivor #author and Nobel Prize winner is born in #Sighet #Romania. He died in [----] in New York City. #HappyBirthday #NobelPrize #history #ad https://amzn.to/2HB4rAM https://amzn.to/2HB4rAM"
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"30 Sept. 1962: New York Mets catcher Joe #Pignatano becomes the only player in Major League #Baseball history to hit into a triple play during the last at bat of his Major League career. The game occurred against the ##Chicago Cubs. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3rKfgaP https://amzn.to/3rKfgaP"
X Link 2025-10-01T00:41Z 512.7K followers, [----] engagements

"30 Sept 1944: J.B. Conant and V. #Bush of the Office of Scientific Research and Development write to the Secretary of War with concerns about President Franklin Roosevelt's "cavalier" belief that it is possible to maintain an Anglo-American #atomic monopoly after World War II. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/36kejtg https://amzn.to/36kejtg"
X Link 2025-10-01T03:11Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"30 Sept 1924: American #author Truman Capote who wrote among other #novels In Cold Blood is born in New Orleans Louisiana. #books #history #writer #history #OTD #TrumanCapote #ad https://amzn.to/3dvkQag https://amzn.to/3dvkQag"
X Link 2025-10-01T05:41Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"1 Oct 1800: France regains the territory of #Louisiana from #Spain via the secret Third Treaty of San Ildefonso. In return Spain received territories in Tuscany. The terms of the #treaty were formalized in the March [----] Treaty of Aranjuez. #history #ad https://amzn.to/3jjzaQW https://amzn.to/3jjzaQW"
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"1 Oct [---] BC: Alexander the Great defeats the #Persian Emperor Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela in essence conquering the #Achaemenid Empire. Alexander achieved an extraordinary victory against a numerically superior army. #OTD #History #ad https://amzn.to/3R4DNR9 https://amzn.to/3R4DNR9"
X Link 2025-10-01T10:39Z 512.6K followers, [----] engagements

"1 Oct 1900: Future #British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is first elected to #parliament in the constituency of Oldham. He was elected as a Conservative. In the [--] years Churchill served in parliament he represented five constituencies and served under [--] Prime Ministers. #ad https://amzn.to/3QMYzo9 https://amzn.to/3QMYzo9"
X Link 2025-10-01T13:08Z 512.6K followers, [----] engagements

"1 Oct 1971: Walt #Disney World opens in Orlando Florida. Walt Disney would not see it open as he dies of lung #cancer at age [--] in [----]. #fun #amusementpark #history #OTD @WaltDisneyCo #MickeyMouse #ad https://amzn.to/3485MGW https://amzn.to/3485MGW"
X Link 2025-10-02T04:01Z 512.6K followers, [---] engagements

"1 Oct 2024: Claudia #Sheinbaum is sworn-in as the first woman president of Mexico. She is not only the first woman to be elected president of Mexico but also the first #Jewish person elected to the position. #History #Mexico #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/46xeoqP https://amzn.to/46xeoqP"
X Link 2025-10-02T06:25Z 512.6K followers, [---] engagements

"2 Oct 1967: Thurgood #Marshall of #Maryland is sworn in as the first African-American justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. He was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson. #ThurgoodMarshall #LBJ #SupremeCourt #History #ad https://amzn.to/34fmRyO https://amzn.to/34fmRyO"
X Link 2025-10-02T11:21Z 512.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@OKCNightCourt Somewhat appropriate on this Yom Kippur"
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"2 October 2017: #American rock #singer and #songwriter Tom Petty dies at the age of [--] in Santa Monica #California of an accidental overdoes. He was born in Gainesville #Florida on October [--] [----]. He sold over [--] million records during his career. #History #OTD #music #ad https://amzn.to/4pwyXMz https://amzn.to/4pwyXMz"
X Link 2025-10-02T23:52Z 512.7K followers, [----] engagements

"2 Oct 1941: The German #Wehrmacht begins Operation Typhoon the #codename for the attack on #Moscow during World War II. The Germans got to the suburbs of #Khimki from which point one could see the towers of the #Kremlin just miles away. #WWII #WW2 #ad https://amzn.to/34mXQls https://amzn.to/34mXQls"
X Link 2025-10-03T06:35Z 512.6K followers, [----] engagements

"3 Oct 1935: #Italian forces attack #Abyssinia in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. The last battle of the war which #Italy won occurred on February [--] [----]. The #Ethiopian Empire then became part of the Italian #colony of #Italian East Africa. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3cUspme https://amzn.to/3cUspme"
X Link 2025-10-03T11:09Z 512.6K followers, [----] engagements

"3 Oct 1952: #Britain becomes the third country after the U.S. and Russia to test a #nuclear #bomb. It was tested at Monte Bello Australia. #ColdWar #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3cPVUFO https://amzn.to/3cPVUFO"
X Link 2025-10-03T16:00Z 512.6K followers, [----] engagements

"3 Oct 1940: After signing an armistice with the Germans Vichy #France passes its own version of the #antisemitic and racist German #Nuremberg Laws. Jews are excluded from elected office positions of responsibility in the civil service the judiciary #military service and teaching reporting or editing for newspapers and finally direction and editing for film or radio. #WW2 #WWII #history #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3zFVahO https://amzn.to/3zFVahO"
X Link 2025-10-03T18:29Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"3 Oct 1967: The X-15 rocket #plane establishes the world speed record of Mach [---] or [----] mph. The #rocket was piloted by U.S. Air Force #pilot Pete #Knight. #AirForce #history #ad https://amzn.to/2HI4VFh https://amzn.to/2HI4VFh"
X Link 2025-10-03T23:22Z 512.6K followers, [----] engagements

"4 Oct 1927: Construction on Mount #Rushmore begins in the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota. It was led by sculptor Gutzon Borglum and took [--] years to complete. The #Presidents depicted are Washington Jefferson Lincoln and Roosevelt. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/33sLs44 https://amzn.to/33sLs44"
X Link 2025-10-04T08:50Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"4 Oct 1970: Iconic American rock singer Janis Joplin dies of heroin overdose in Los Angeles California at the age of [--]. At the time of her death she had released three albums. #History #rocknroll #JanisJoplin #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/46qvO8w https://amzn.to/46qvO8w"
X Link 2025-10-04T11:14Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"4 Oct 1957: The #Soviet Union launches #Sputnik into orbit. It is the first the first #satellite launched into #orbit. The surprise success of the Sputnik sparked what was known as the #Space Race which was part of the Cold War. #ColdWar #history #ad https://amzn.to/3jtefer https://amzn.to/3jtefer"
X Link 2025-10-04T13:45Z 512.7K followers, [----] engagements

"4 Oct 1965: #Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the United States and the #Americas in general when he arrives in New York City. #NYC #Catholic #Vatican #history #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3jukgr1 https://amzn.to/3jukgr1"
X Link 2025-10-04T21:04Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"4 Oct 1939: #German dictator Adolf Hitler issues a secret decree granting amnesty including the cancellation of all court martials to the #Wehrmacht and #police for all crimes committed in #Poland between September [--] and October [--] during World War II. #ad https://amzn.to/3bMhvmp https://amzn.to/3bMhvmp"
X Link 2025-10-04T23:33Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"4 Oct 1669: #Dutch painter #Rembrandt van Rijn dies at the age of [--] in Amsterdam the Netherlands. He was born in Leiden the Netherlands. #History #painter #artist #RIP #ad https://amzn.to/2GD3mIs https://amzn.to/2GD3mIs"
X Link 2025-10-05T02:01Z 512.7K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Oct [----] : The Beatles release "Love Me Do" in the United Kingdom. It was their first single. The song goes to number [--] on the charts. It is released in U.S. in [----] and goes to #1. #TheBeatles #music #history #ad https://amzn.to/3iqIQHX https://amzn.to/3iqIQHX"
X Link 2025-10-05T08:40Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Oct 1908: The independence of #Bulgaria from the #Islamic Ottoman Empire is formally proclaimed at the Holy Forty Martyrs #Church in the old capital of #Tarnovo by Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. He will take the title of #Tsar after the proclamation. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/46iUnWe https://amzn.to/46iUnWe"
X Link 2025-10-05T11:03Z 512.7K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Oct 1916: During World War I future German #dictator Adolf Hitler is #wounded in the left thigh by shell near Bapaume France during the Battle of the Somme. #WWI #OTD #History #damnsoclose #ad https://amzn.to/2HWKch6 https://amzn.to/2HWKch6"
X Link 2025-10-05T13:28Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Oct 1938: The Nazi #German Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidates all German #passports held by Jews. #Jews were required to surrender their passports and Germany reissued them only when the letter J has been stamped on them. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/46x0Dsh https://amzn.to/46x0Dsh"
X Link 2025-10-05T16:01Z 512.7K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Oct 1937: Former University of Oklahoma and #Dallas Cowboys head #football coach Barry #Switzer is born. He is one of three coaches to win a college national championship (winning three with #Oklahoma in [----] [----] and 1985) and a Super Bowl in [----]. #History #0TD #BoomerSooner @Barry_Switzer #ad https://amzn.to/34lYP5g https://amzn.to/34lYP5g"
X Link 2025-10-05T18:29Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Oct 1942: Major General Ivan Rukhle is arrested by the Soviet STAVKA. He was deputy chief of the headquarters of the #Stalingrad Front. He was falsely charged him with #treason and would be held at Lubyanka prison near Moscow Russia until [----]. #WW2 #ad https://amzn.to/30z1s2p https://amzn.to/30z1s2p"
X Link 2025-10-05T21:01Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Oct 1969: The incredibly hilarious Monty Python's Flying #Circus begins on #BBC One in the United Kingdom. It would run until [----] totaling [--] episodes. #MontyPython #TV #history #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/34nl5f4 https://amzn.to/34nl5f4"
X Link 2025-10-05T23:26Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Oct 2011: #Apple co-founder and CEO Steve #Jobs dies of respiratory arrest related to #cancer at the age of [--] in Palo Alto California. #SteveJobs #iPhone #RIP #ad https://amzn.to/2GAR2rY https://amzn.to/2GAR2rY"
X Link 2025-10-06T04:14Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"5 Oct 1936: Former Czechoslovakia and Czech President Vaclav #Havel is born in Prague. He was the president of #Czechoslovakia when it dissolved and became the first president of the #Czech Republic. He died on Dec [--] [----] in Hrdeek Czech Republic. #ad https://amzn.to/33vIpIh https://amzn.to/33vIpIh"
X Link 2025-10-06T06:20Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Oct [--] BC: The outnumbered #Roman army led by #Lucullus defeats the Kingdom of Armenia's #army led by King #Tigranes in the Battle of Tigranocerta. As a result of the battle Tigranes' capital city of Tigranocerta was captured. #RomanHistory #ad https://amzn.to/33vDdnH https://amzn.to/33vDdnH"
X Link 2025-10-06T08:43Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Oct 1976: Following the death of Premier #Mao Zedong who was responsible for tens of millions of #Chinese deaths in September the new Chinese leader Hua Guofeng has the Gang of Four arrested marking the end of the #Cultural Revolution. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/4mwPJsn https://amzn.to/4mwPJsn"
X Link 2025-10-06T11:09Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Oct 1908: In a prelude to World War I Austria-Hungary announces that it will annex Bosnia-Herzegovina from the #Ottoman Empire upsetting the fragile balance of power in the Balkans. #WWI #OTD #History #ad https://amzn.to/3izBP7U https://amzn.to/3izBP7U"
X Link 2025-10-06T13:31Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Oct 1981: Egypt's #President Anwar #Sadat is assassinated in suburban Cairo Egypt while viewing a #military parade. A fatw approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar Abdel-Rahman. #History #ad https://amzn.to/36zyYtb https://amzn.to/36zyYtb"
X Link 2025-10-06T16:02Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Oct 1910: Eleftherios #Venizelos becomes the Prime Minister of #Greece for the first time. He would be #elected a total of seven times to the office. #history #GreekHistory #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2Gsv5M5 https://amzn.to/2Gsv5M5"
X Link 2025-10-06T20:57Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Oct 1918: During World War I #German Chancellor Prince Maximilian of Baden sends a message via Frederick Oederlin Charge d' Affaires of Switzerland to U.S. #President Woodrow Wilson requesting his intervention to bring about the immediate conclusion of a general #armistice on land on water and in the air. #ad https://amzn.to/3ruNlfv https://amzn.to/3ruNlfv"
X Link 2025-10-06T23:23Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"6 Oct 2006: Buck O'Neil who played pro #baseball for #Kansas City #Monarchs in the #Negro League and was the first African-American coach in Major League Baseball dies at the age of [--]. #MLB #BuckOneil #history #ad https://amzn.to/34wh4VP https://amzn.to/34wh4VP"
X Link 2025-10-07T04:27Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Oct 1916: #Georgia Tech defeats #Cumberland #University [----]. It is most lopsided #college #football game in U.S. history. (Do you think Georgia Tech covered) #History #taketheover #OTD #GeorgiaTech #ad https://amzn.to/2GnyxHX https://amzn.to/2GnyxHX"
X Link 2025-10-07T13:33Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Oct 1950: Mother Teresa now #Saint Teresa starts the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta #India. Its mission is to help the poor. #Catholic #motherteresa #OTD #history #ad https://amzn.to/2SEkTSZ https://amzn.to/2SEkTSZ"
X Link 2025-10-07T18:29Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Oct 1931: South African Anglican #Archbishop and [----] #Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond #Tutu is born in Klerksdorp South Africa. #NobelPeacePrize #SouthAfrica #HappyBirthday #ad https://amzn.to/3nqqFpK https://amzn.to/3nqqFpK"
X Link 2025-10-07T23:27Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Oct 1849: U.S. #poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore #Maryland at the age of [--]. He was one of the first to write in the short #story format. #EdgarAllenPoe #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3jBTr4t https://amzn.to/3jBTr4t"
X Link 2025-10-08T02:02Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Oct 1919: The U.S. #War Department General order No. [---] directed: The war against the Central Powers of Europe in which the United States has taken part will hereafter be designated in all official communications and publications as The World War. #WWI #ad https://amzn.to/30GQZlI https://amzn.to/30GQZlI"
X Link 2025-10-08T04:13Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"7 Oct 2003: #California Governor Gray Davis (D) is voted out of office in a recall election. 55.4% of participants voted to recall the sitting governor. #Actor Arnold #Schwarzenegger was elected #governor under a second ballot question. He received 48.6% of the vote while #Democrat Cruz Bustamante received 31% of the vote. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/4nkRVEx https://amzn.to/4nkRVEx"
X Link 2025-10-08T06:41Z 513.1K followers, [----] engagements

"8 Oct 1480: The Great Stand on the #Ugra river is a standoff between the forces of Akhmat #Khan of the Great Horde and Grand #Prince Ivan III of Muscovy. The #Tatars left without engaging the enemy. It is seen as the end of Tatar rule over #Moscow. #ad https://amzn.to/34rjaWQ https://amzn.to/34rjaWQ"
X Link 2025-10-08T08:40Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"8 Oct 1967: #Communist guerrilla leader #Che Guevara is captured in #Bolivia by the Bolivian military. He is #executed on October 9th despite pleas from the U.S. for him to be interrogated. #History #goodriddance #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3jFRaVD https://amzn.to/3jFRaVD"
X Link 2025-10-08T18:27Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"8 Oct 1967: Former #British Labour Prime Minister Clement #Attlee dies at the age of [--] in London. He defeated Winston #Churchill to become Prime Minister in [----] shortly after World War II in #Europe ended. #WWII #history #WW2 #ad https://amzn.to/3RhiI3U https://amzn.to/3RhiI3U"
X Link 2025-10-08T23:22Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"@FleaDee Ok how did you do that Very cool"
X Link 2025-10-09T00:43Z 512.8K followers, [--] engagements

"8 Oct 1956: The New York Yankees Don #Larsen pitches the first and only perfect game in World Series history. He did it against the #Brooklyn Dodgers. The #Yankees won 2-0. #MLB #baseball #WorldSeries #ad https://amzn.to/36KGO3v https://amzn.to/36KGO3v"
X Link 2025-10-09T01:54Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"And congrats to the Blue Jays tonight who defeat the Yankees and win the series [--] games to 1"
X Link 2025-10-09T03:25Z 512.8K followers, [----] engagements

"8 Oct 1940: #Czech pilot and World War II ace Josef Frantiek dies when his plane crashes in Ewell England. He's the highest-scoring non-British Allied ace in the Battle of Britain with [--] confirmed victories. All kills occurred during [--] weeks in Sept. [----]. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3AmAnhY https://amzn.to/3AmAnhY"
X Link 2025-10-09T04:19Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Oct 768: #Charlemagne and his younger brother #Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks. Charlemagne would become Holy #Roman Emperor December [--] [---]. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/313rtr9 https://amzn.to/313rtr9"
X Link 2025-10-09T10:57Z 513.1K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Oct 1594: The #Portuguese army is defeated by the Kingdom of #Kandy on present-day Sri Lanka ending the Campaign of Danture. Nearly all [----] Portuguese were killed or captured. #History #OnThisDay #ad https://amzn.to/2SFT9h6 https://amzn.to/2SFT9h6"
X Link 2025-10-09T15:57Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Oct 1264: The Kingdom of Castile led by Alfonso X in modern-day northern #Spain conquers the city of Jerez now in southern Spain which had been under #Muslim occupation since [---]. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2GuDteb https://amzn.to/2GuDteb"
X Link 2025-10-09T18:28Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Oct 1974: Nazi industrialist Oskar Schindler who saved hundreds of #Jews during #WWII and whose life was depicted in the #movie "Schindler's List" dies at the age of [--]. #WW2 #WWII #History #ShindlersList #ad https://amzn.to/36MdQju https://amzn.to/36MdQju"
X Link 2025-10-09T23:26Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Oct 1940: Prime Minister Winston #Churchill is elected head of the #Conservative Party after Neville Chamberlain resigns from the House of Commons for health reasons. Churchill had become Prime Minister replacing Chamberlain on May [--] [----]. #WW2 #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/30OugEa https://amzn.to/30OugEa"
X Link 2025-10-10T02:01Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"10 Oct 732: Charles Martel and his #Frankish and #Aquitanian forces defeat Islamic forces led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi at the Battle of Tours. It is thought #Islamic forces outnumbered Martel's army. The battle occurred in the Aquitaine region of western France. The battle was one of a number of #Muslim clashes within what is today France. #OTD #History #ad https://amzn.to/3nQnM3a https://amzn.to/3nQnM3a"
X Link 2025-10-10T10:37Z 513.1K followers, [----] engagements

"10 Oct 1979: Iconic Canadian hockey player Wayne #Gretzky makes his National #Hockey League debut with the #Edmonton Oilers. He made his professional debut with the #Indianapolis Racers of the Western Hockey Association in [----] at the age of [--]. #NHL #History #ad https://amzn.to/3Fdwhxq https://amzn.to/3Fdwhxq"
X Link 2025-10-10T17:57Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"10 Oct 1974: Lyudmila Pavlichenko nicknamed Lady Death dies in Moscow. She was a #Soviet sniper during World War II and is credited with killing [---] #Germans during the war the most of any female and one of the top snipers--male or female--in history. #History #OTD #WW2 #ad https://amzn.to/34C6wV0 https://amzn.to/34C6wV0"
X Link 2025-10-11T06:15Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"11 Oct 1521: #Pope Leo X bestows the title of Defender of the #Faith upon England's King Henry VIII yes that Henry as a reward for Henry's pamphlet Declaration of the Seven #Sacraments Against Martin Luther. Henry would be excommunicated on December [--] [----]. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/389jaA5 https://amzn.to/389jaA5"
X Link 2025-10-11T08:42Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"11 Oct 1884: Former First Lady Eleanor #Roosevelt is born in New York City New York. She died on November [--] [----] in New York City. #NYC #history #FirstLady #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/36Qw0AI https://amzn.to/36Qw0AI"
X Link 2025-10-12T01:08Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"12 Oct 1920: Construction of the #Holland Tunnel between New York City and New Jersey begins. The tunnel was opened to traffic on November [--] [----]. #HollandTunnel #NYC #NewJersey #History #ad https://amzn.to/3jJ3nZT https://amzn.to/3jJ3nZT"
X Link 2025-10-12T17:57Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"12 Oct 1935: Italian #opera #tenor Luciano #Pavarotti is born in Modena Italy. He became one of the most successful tenors of all time. He died on September [--] [----] also in Modena. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3iKkmK9 https://amzn.to/3iKkmK9"
X Link 2025-10-12T20:21Z 512.9K followers, [----] engagements

"12 Oct 1492: #Italian explorer Christopher Columbus reaches a #Bahamian island believing he reached East Asia. He claimed the land for #Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain who sponsored his attempt to find a western route to #China and India. #ad https://amzn.to/3AmKpj7 https://amzn.to/3AmKpj7"
X Link 2025-10-12T22:55Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"13 Oct 1792: Construction begins on the Executive #Mansion in Washington D.C. It is renamed the White House in [----]. It has been the official office and home of every U.S. president and first lady since [----] when John and Abigail Adams moved in near the end of his presidential term. #History #WhiteHouse #DC #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3iQhc7p https://amzn.to/3iQhc7p"
X Link 2025-10-13T18:18Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"13 Oct 1925: Former #Conservative British Prime Minister Margaret #Thatcher is born in Grantham England. She was the first woman prime minister in Great Britain. She died in [----] Westminster England. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3dp67cG https://amzn.to/3dp67cG"
X Link 2025-10-13T20:43Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"14 Oct 1943: During World War II the U.S. Eighth Air Force #bombs ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt #Germany in what is known as "Black Thursday. [--] of the [---] bombers were shot down a whopping 20%. [---] airmen were lost in the raid. #History #OTD #WW2 #ad https://amzn.to/3fX2DDn https://amzn.to/3fX2DDn"
X Link 2025-10-14T13:29Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"14 Oct 1322: Scotland's Robert the Bruce defeats #King Edward II of #England during the Battle of Old Byland. Bruce's victory forced Edward to recognize Scotlands independence. #History #Scotland #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/48F8wOM https://amzn.to/48F8wOM"
X Link 2025-10-14T18:27Z 513.1K followers, [----] engagements

"14 Oct 1933: Nazi #Germany announces that it is withdrawing from the League of Nations. Recall that Adolf Hitler had become #Chancellor on January [--] [----]. #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/2GUMPjq https://amzn.to/2GUMPjq"
X Link 2025-10-15T06:35Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"15 Oct 1989: [--] year old Wayne #Gretzky of the Los Angeles #Kings becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the National #Hockey League breaking Gordie #Howes points record (1850) in the final period of a game against the #Edmonton Oilers. #NHL #History #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/3lPwRWO https://amzn.to/3lPwRWO"
X Link 2025-10-15T13:01Z 513.1K followers, [----] engagements

"16 Oct 1793: Queen of France Marie #Antoinette is beheaded during the French Revolution. She was [--] years old. (By the way there is no record of her having said Let them eat cake.) #FrenchRevolution #history #OTD #ad https://amzn.to/33Zu1br https://amzn.to/33Zu1br"
X Link 2025-10-17T04:02Z 513.1K followers, [----] engagements

"17 Oct 1938: American motorcycle #daredevil Robert Craig Knievel better known as Evel Knieval is born in Butte Montana. He died in [----] in Clearwater Florida. #History #sport #HappyBirthday #OTD #EvelKnieval #ad https://amzn.to/31vZ3Gv https://amzn.to/31vZ3Gv"
X Link 2025-10-17T08:31Z 513K followers, [----] engagements

"1939: US mobster Al #Capone is freed from Alcatraz jail in #California"
X Link 2017-11-16T16:15Z 507.8K followers, [--] engagements

"1939: US mobster Al #Capone is freed from #Alcatraz jail in #California"
X Link 2017-11-16T22:16Z 507.7K followers, [--] engagements

"1939: #US mobster Al #Capone is freed from #Alcatraz jail in #California. #mob"
X Link 2017-11-17T04:03Z 507.7K followers, [--] engagements

"Today in 1678: Italian #Baroque composer Antonio #Vivaldi is born in Venice in what is now Italy. He is probably best known for his Four Seasons work. He was also an ordained Catholic priest. He died on July [--] [----] in Vienna"
X Link 2018-03-04T05:13Z 492.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Today in 1989: The USS #Arizona which was sunk at the start of World War II at Pearl Harbor is designated as a National Historic Landmark. The battleship was built in 1914-1915 at a cost of $16 million. #WWII #PEARLHARBOR"
X Link 2018-05-05T19:05Z 492K followers, [--] engagements

"Today in 1978: Italian #mountaineer Reinhold #Messner and Austrian mountaineer Peter #Habeler are the first to climb Mount #Everest without supplemental oxygen"
X Link 2018-05-08T19:08Z 490.7K followers, [--] engagements

"Today in 1986: #Tibetan climber Tenzing #Norgay who was first person to reach summit of Mount #Everest with New Zealander Edmund Hillary dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at [--]. #history"
X Link 2018-05-09T21:01Z 490.3K followers, [--] engagements

"Today in 1995: 33-year old mountain climber Alison #Hargreaves of Great #Britain becomes the first #woman to summit Mount #Everest alone and without oxygen. She died on August [--] descending from the K2 summit"
X Link 2018-05-13T20:05Z 491K followers, [--] engagements

"Today in 1995: 33-year old Alison #Hargreaves of Great #Britain becomes the first woman to summit Mount #Everest alone and without #oxygen. She died on August [--] descending from the #K2 summit"
X Link 2018-05-14T02:06Z 491.8K followers, [--] engagements

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