On today's date in 2001: Grand Theft Auto III was released, helping to popularize open-world and mature-content video games. 
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Today In History
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What happened today in history
On today's date in 2022: Myanmar civil war: Burmese military forces launched airstrikes that killed at least 80 concertgoers in Kachin State. 
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On today's date in 1972: Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ended after five months. 
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On today's date in 1727: George II and Caroline of Ansbach (pictured) were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey. 
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On today's date in 1730: Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2014: In Ottawa, Canada, the downtown core was placed on lockdown after a series of shootings at Parliament Hill. 
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On today's date in 1096: A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the People's Crusade. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1858: French composer Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, featuring the music most associated with the can-can (audio featured), was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris. 
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On today's date in 1520: Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as the Strait of Magellan. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1818: The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada-United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1967: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject, which they claimed was Bigfoot, at Six Rivers National Forest in California. 
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On today's date in 1904: Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1781: American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown. 
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On today's date in 1216: King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1579: A ceremony was held in Edinburgh marking the coming of age of James VI of Scotland as an adult ruler. 
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On today's date in 1009: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 2019: Protests in Santiago that started 11 days prior escalated into open battle against the Chilean national police, forcing President Sebastián Piñera to declare a state of emergency. 
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On today's date in 33: Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1604: Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus. #history #grownostr
On today's date in 1091: London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. #history #grownostr