blue water massey
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Apr. 3
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1783 Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
1860 Pony Express began between St Joseph MO & Sacramento CA
1864 Skirmish at Okolona AR
1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond VA & Petersburg VA
1865 Battle at Namozine Church VA (Appomattox Campaign)
1882 American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1933 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest
1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1942 Japanese forces begin an assault on the US and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula
1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
1945 Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army
1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
1945 US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
1948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1964 US & Panam? agree to resume diplomatic relations
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched
1968 North Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks
1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in the east, south & midwest
1981 The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled
1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1783 Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
1860 Pony Express began between St Joseph MO & Sacramento CA
1864 Skirmish at Okolona AR
1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond VA & Petersburg VA
1865 Battle at Namozine Church VA (Appomattox Campaign)
1882 American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1933 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest
1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1942 Japanese forces begin an assault on the US and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula
1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
1945 Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army
1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
1945 US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
1948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1964 US & Panam? agree to resume diplomatic relations
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched
1968 North Vietnam agrees to meet US representatives to set up preliminary peace talks
1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in the east, south & midwest
1981 The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled
1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7