blue water massey
Well-known Member
July 29
1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane
1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF
1915 US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924
1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1936 RCA shows the 1st real TV program
1938 Olympic National Park established
1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water
1957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
1958 Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958
1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1961 Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1967 Explosion & Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin, $100 million in damage
1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee
1975 Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer
1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
1987 Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989
1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes
1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane
1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF
1915 US marines land in Haiti, stay until 1924
1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1936 RCA shows the 1st real TV program
1938 Olympic National Park established
1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water
1957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
1958 Pres Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958
1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1961 Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1967 Explosion & Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin, $100 million in damage
1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee
1975 Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer
1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
1987 Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989
1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes