blue water massey
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Nov. 18
1307 According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head
1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico
1755 Quake in Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston
1776 Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ
1820 US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer discovers Antarctica
1883 Standard time zones established by railroads in US & Canada
1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
1911 Britain's 1st seaplane flies
1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey
1913 Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1943 Battle of Berlin: Four hundred forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1961 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1963 The first push-button telephone goes into service
1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon
1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship
1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport Washington, DC, & turned over to the Smithsonian Institution
1307 According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head
1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico
1755 Quake in Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston
1776 Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ
1820 US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer discovers Antarctica
1883 Standard time zones established by railroads in US & Canada
1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
1911 Britain's 1st seaplane flies
1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey
1913 Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1943 Battle of Berlin: Four hundred forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1961 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1963 The first push-button telephone goes into service
1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon
1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship
1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport Washington, DC, & turned over to the Smithsonian Institution