blue water massey
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1375 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
1776 Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence
1798 British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
1819 1st parachute jump in US
1832 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
1832 Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
1858 1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
1873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
1876 Wild Bill Hickok shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. (holding Aces & 8's)
1877 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1943 PT-109 rammed & sunk
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
1964 Race riot in Jersey City NJ
1965 Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
1967 US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
1983 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1985 NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1986 TODAY/PC born today
1987 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
1988 System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune
1990 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait
1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
1375 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
1776 Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence
1798 British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
1819 1st parachute jump in US
1832 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
1832 Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
1858 1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
1873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
1876 Wild Bill Hickok shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. (holding Aces & 8's)
1877 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1943 PT-109 rammed & sunk
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
1964 Race riot in Jersey City NJ
1965 Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
1967 US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
1983 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1985 NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1986 TODAY/PC born today
1987 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
1988 System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune
1990 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait
1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched