blue water massey
Well-known Member
Aug. 8
1709 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1796 Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
1843 Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
1844 Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
1860 Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
1861 William Bateson, originator of term "genetics"
1864 Red Cross Anniversary
1876 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
1882 Snow falls on Lake Michigan
1890 Daughters of the American Revolution organizes
1918 6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more
1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
1929 Salem Oregon airport dedicated
1937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
1940 Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC
1945 Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
1945 USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
1949 Bhutan, land of the Dragon, became an independent monarchy
1953 US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact
1955 Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
1960 Ivory Coast declares independence
1963 Great Train Robbery in England, $2.6 million ($7.3 million)
1973 VP Spiro T Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he took kickbacks from govt contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign
1974 Pres Richard M Nixon announced he'd resign his office 12PM 08/09
1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
1983 Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
1985 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
1988 Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
1988 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
1989 US space shuttle STS-28 launched
1990 Iraq annexes Kuwait
1991 Shite nnalert release British hostage John McCarthy
1709 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1796 Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
1843 Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
1844 Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
1860 Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
1861 William Bateson, originator of term "genetics"
1864 Red Cross Anniversary
1876 Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
1882 Snow falls on Lake Michigan
1890 Daughters of the American Revolution organizes
1918 6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more
1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
1929 Salem Oregon airport dedicated
1937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
1940 Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC
1945 Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
1945 USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
1949 Bhutan, land of the Dragon, became an independent monarchy
1953 US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact
1955 Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
1960 Ivory Coast declares independence
1963 Great Train Robbery in England, $2.6 million ($7.3 million)
1973 VP Spiro T Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he took kickbacks from govt contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign
1974 Pres Richard M Nixon announced he'd resign his office 12PM 08/09
1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
1983 Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
1985 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
1988 Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
1988 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
1989 US space shuttle STS-28 launched
1990 Iraq annexes Kuwait
1991 Shite nnalert release British hostage John McCarthy