blue water massey
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Mar. 11
1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
1791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia PA, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia
1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of Army of the Potomac
1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC
1916 USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned as the first US Navy "super-dreadnought"
1917 British troops occupy Baghdad
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1938 German troops enter Austria
1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1945 Japanese Navy attempts a kamikaze attack on the Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll
1953 American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on SC, the bomb doesn't go off
1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1982 Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC
1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
1791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia PA, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia
1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of Army of the Potomac
1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC
1916 USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned as the first US Navy "super-dreadnought"
1917 British troops occupy Baghdad
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1938 German troops enter Austria
1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1945 Japanese Navy attempts a kamikaze attack on the Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll
1953 American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on SC, the bomb doesn't go off
1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1982 Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC
1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km