blue water massey
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Sept. 28
1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
1779 Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay
1781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary Wa
1787 Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval
1850 Flogging in US Navy & on merchant vessels abolished
1858 Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed
1867 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario
1868 Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France
1879 Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route
1885 Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination
1906 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
1912 Cpl Frank S. Scott of the US Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash
1914 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1924 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
1928 Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel
1937 FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to the USSR
1944 Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands
1958 Guinea votes for independence from France
1959 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth
1961 USNCom dr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
1965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
1967 Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC
1972 Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1978 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
1980 Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly the Atlantic standing on the wing
1982 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1988 Bronx Museum for the Arts opens
1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
1779 Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay
1781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary Wa
1787 Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval
1850 Flogging in US Navy & on merchant vessels abolished
1858 Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed
1867 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario
1868 Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France
1879 Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route
1885 Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination
1906 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
1912 Cpl Frank S. Scott of the US Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash
1914 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1924 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
1928 Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel
1937 FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to the USSR
1944 Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands
1958 Guinea votes for independence from France
1959 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth
1961 USNCom dr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
1965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
1967 Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC
1972 Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1978 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
1980 Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly the Atlantic standing on the wing
1982 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1988 Bronx Museum for the Arts opens
