blue water massey
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Oct. 11
1767 Surveying for the Mason?Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed
1811 Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry
(service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey)
1910 Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He
flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field
(Lambert?St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri
1984 Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American
woman to perform a space walk
Birthdays:
1821 George Williams, English philanthropist, founded the YMCA
1844 Henry John Heinz founded prepared-foods the H.J. Heinz Company (57 varieties)
Deaths:
1809 Meriwether Lewis capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
Thought for the day:
" The orator speaks, with his flood of words and his drop of reason. "
1767 Surveying for the Mason?Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed
1811 Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry
(service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey)
1910 Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He
flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field
(Lambert?St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri
1984 Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American
woman to perform a space walk
Birthdays:
1821 George Williams, English philanthropist, founded the YMCA
1844 Henry John Heinz founded prepared-foods the H.J. Heinz Company (57 varieties)
Deaths:
1809 Meriwether Lewis capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
Thought for the day:
" The orator speaks, with his flood of words and his drop of reason. "