blue water massey
Well-known Member
May 17
1620 1st documented merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1673 Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
1733 England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies
1775 The Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec
1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
1845 Rubber band patents
1849 A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground
1862 Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
1864 Battle of Adairsville GA, Union forces Confederates to retreat
1875 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
1877 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
1884 Alaska becomes a US territory
1886 Death of John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company
1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
1920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1940 Nazis bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
1943 The Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams
1944 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea
1945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
1960 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA
1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1968 European Space Research Organization launches 1st satellite
1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra II
1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles
1620 1st documented merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1673 Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
1733 England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies
1775 The Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec
1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
1845 Rubber band patents
1849 A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground
1862 Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
1864 Battle of Adairsville GA, Union forces Confederates to retreat
1875 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
1877 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
1884 Alaska becomes a US territory
1886 Death of John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company
1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
1920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1940 Nazis bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
1943 The Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams
1944 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea
1945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
1960 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA
1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1968 European Space Research Organization launches 1st satellite
1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic on reed raft Ra II
1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles
