blue water massey
Well-known Member
Aug. 4
1693 Dom Perignon invents champagne
1753 George Washington becomes a master mason
1777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
1790 US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
1830 Plans for the city of Chicago laid out
1864 Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
1914 Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1916 US agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million
1925 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
1927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
1944 Anne Frank, 15, (Diary of Anne Frank) is arrested by Nazis
1948 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
1956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
1960 Rocket propelled USAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James Chaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi
1971 US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
1974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
1977 Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
1981 Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission
1981 Oliver North is assigned to White House duty
1984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso
1988 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
1988 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
1990 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
1693 Dom Perignon invents champagne
1753 George Washington becomes a master mason
1777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
1790 US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
1830 Plans for the city of Chicago laid out
1864 Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
1914 Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1916 US agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million
1925 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
1927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
1944 Anne Frank, 15, (Diary of Anne Frank) is arrested by Nazis
1948 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
1956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
1960 Rocket propelled USAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James Chaney found buried inside an earthen dam in Mississippi
1971 US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
1974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
1977 Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
1981 Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission
1981 Oliver North is assigned to White House duty
1984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso
1988 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
1988 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
1990 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq