blue water massey
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Aug. 28
1609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson
1776 Battle of Long Island
1830 Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn carriage
1833 The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire
1862 Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas
1867 US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
1884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
1898 Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called "Pepsi-Cola"
1907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House
1937 Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
1938 Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
1943 In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts
1944 Marseille and Toulon are liberated
1957 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1968 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven
1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
1978 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
1981 John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1990 Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province
1609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson
1776 Battle of Long Island
1830 Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn carriage
1833 The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire
1862 Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas
1867 US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
1884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
1898 Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called "Pepsi-Cola"
1907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House
1937 Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
1938 Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
1943 In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts
1944 Marseille and Toulon are liberated
1957 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1968 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven
1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
1978 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
1981 John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1990 Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province