blue water massey
Well-known Member
Sept. 28
1779 Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay
1867 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796
1889 The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice
2008 ? SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit
Birthdays:
1836 Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock
1909 Al Capp New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
1925 Seymour Cray inventor (Cray I computer)
Deaths:
1914 Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears
1938 Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1953 Edwin P Hubble astronomer, designer of telescopes
Thought for the day:
" The heart is wiser than the intellect. "
1779 Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay
1867 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796
1889 The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice
2008 ? SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit
Birthdays:
1836 Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock
1909 Al Capp New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
1925 Seymour Cray inventor (Cray I computer)
Deaths:
1914 Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears
1938 Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1953 Edwin P Hubble astronomer, designer of telescopes
Thought for the day:
" The heart is wiser than the intellect. "