blue water massey
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Aug. 29
1758 1st indian reservation established
1776 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1778 British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island
1786 Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Mass farmers, begins in response to high
debt and tax burdens
1831 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction
1854 Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
1861 United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina
1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
1862 US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
1898 The Goodyear tire company is founded
1903 The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched
1909 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins
1914 Arizonan is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
1915 US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident
1916 Steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1943 German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government
1944 Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis
1946 USS Nevada is decommissioned
1949 USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1950 British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there
1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1958 Air Force Academy opens
1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1991 Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
2005 Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast
1758 1st indian reservation established
1776 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1778 British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island
1786 Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Mass farmers, begins in response to high
debt and tax burdens
1831 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction
1854 Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
1861 United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina
1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
1862 US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
1898 The Goodyear tire company is founded
1903 The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched
1909 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins
1914 Arizonan is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
1915 US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident
1916 Steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1943 German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government
1944 Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis
1946 USS Nevada is decommissioned
1949 USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1950 British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there
1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1958 Air Force Academy opens
1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1991 Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
2005 Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast
