This Day in History Jan. 6

Jan. 6

1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1663 Great earthquake in New England
1781 Battle of Jersey (Island in the UK)
1838 Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph
1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania
1861 New York City NY mayor proposes New York become a free city
1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith
1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state
1922 Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
1927 US marines sent to Nicaragua
1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in the Bronx
1942 Pan American Airlines becomes 1st commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket
1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China
1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
1972 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
1974 Daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States
1978 1st postage stamp copyrighted by US (Carl Sandburg stamp)
1978 US hand over St Stephan crown to Hungary
1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy

Yeah, plus I was born- 1944! Thanks Mom!

Happy Birthday

Happy chocolate cake day! Enjoy!

Happy Birthday, hope you have a great day.

1/6/1941
The keel for the USS Missouri BB-63 is laid down at Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Happy Bday Jim.
Mighty Mo

Something sounds a little fishy about that "around the world" airline ticket. In 1942? World war two was revving up.?

here's a paragragh from wiki's story on Pan Am
its about half way down

During World War II most of the Clippers were pressed into military service. Pan Am pioneered a new air route across Western and Central Africa to Iran, and in early 1942 the airline became the first to operate a route circumnavigating the globe.
Pan Am history