blue water massey
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Apr. 19
1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1782 John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the US as an independent government
1852 California Historical Society forms
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1892 Charles Duryea claims to have driven the 1st automobile in the US, Springfield, Ma
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1919 Leslie Irvin of the US makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 FDR announces US will leave the gold standard
1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz
1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
1985 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa
1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1782 John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the US as an independent government
1852 California Historical Society forms
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1892 Charles Duryea claims to have driven the 1st automobile in the US, Springfield, Ma
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1919 Leslie Irvin of the US makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 FDR announces US will leave the gold standard
1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz
1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
1985 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa