blue water massey
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July 25
1729 North Carolina becomes royal colony
1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1814 Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
1822 Gen Agust¡n de Iturbide crowned Agust¡n I, 1st emperor of Mexico
1832 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1866 US Grant named 1st general of Army
1868 Territory of Wyoming created
1871 Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1898 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rico, at Guanica Bay
1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1909 France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel
1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
1916 Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
1947 US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
1947 US Deptartment of the Army created
1956 Andria Doria collided with MS Stockholm & sank. (7/26?)
1957 Monarchy in Tunisa abolished in favor of a republic
1963 US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
1973 USSR launches Mars 5
1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became 1st woman to walk in space
1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1729 North Carolina becomes royal colony
1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1814 Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
1822 Gen Agust¡n de Iturbide crowned Agust¡n I, 1st emperor of Mexico
1832 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1866 US Grant named 1st general of Army
1868 Territory of Wyoming created
1871 Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1898 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rico, at Guanica Bay
1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1909 France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel
1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
1916 Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
1947 US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
1947 US Deptartment of the Army created
1956 Andria Doria collided with MS Stockholm & sank. (7/26?)
1957 Monarchy in Tunisa abolished in favor of a republic
1963 US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
1973 USSR launches Mars 5
1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became 1st woman to walk in space
1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
