blue water massey
Well-known Member
Mar. 23
1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"
1794 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
1806 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast
1857 Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)
1858 Streetcar patented (Eleazer A Gardner of Philadelphia)
1862 Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
1864 Encounter at Camden AR
1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC
1889 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for colonization
1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
1912 Dixie Cup invented
1915 Zion Mule Corp forms
1918 Cr?py-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris France
1929 1st telephone installed in White House
1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
1943 German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute & lives
1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine
1945 Large operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa
1957 US army sells last homing pigeons
1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars" plan (Strategic Defense Initiative)
1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
1990 Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound
1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death"
1794 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
1806 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific coast
1857 Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)
1858 Streetcar patented (Eleazer A Gardner of Philadelphia)
1862 Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign
1864 Encounter at Camden AR
1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC
1889 President Harrison opens Oklahoma for colonization
1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent
1912 Dixie Cup invented
1915 Zion Mule Corp forms
1918 Cr?py-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris France
1929 1st telephone installed in White House
1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
1943 German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meter without a parachute & lives
1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine
1945 Large operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa
1957 US army sells last homing pigeons
1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars" plan (Strategic Defense Initiative)
1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
1990 Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound
