blue water massey
Well-known Member
Mar. 24
1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1707 The Acts of Union 1707 are signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms and parliaments of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain
1765 Quartering Act, which requires the 13 Colonies to house British troops
1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
1883 1st telephone call between New York & Chicago
1898 1st automobile sold
1920 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin
1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
1945 Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine
1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency
1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus
1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska
1992 1st Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11)
1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1707 The Acts of Union 1707 are signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms and parliaments of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain
1765 Quartering Act, which requires the 13 Colonies to house British troops
1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
1883 1st telephone call between New York & Chicago
1898 1st automobile sold
1920 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin
1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
1945 Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine
1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency
1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus
1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska
1992 1st Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11)
