blue water massey
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Nov. 20
1637 Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1776 British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee
1780 Britain declares war on Holland
1789 New Jersey becomes 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
1861 A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government
1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg
1866 Howard University founded (Wash, DC)
1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1888 William Bundy patents the timecard clock
1894 US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1914 US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1917 British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions and later pushed back
1917 Ukrainian Republic declared
1919 1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Az
1931 Commercial teletype service begins
1943 US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Island
1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1947 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1300 MPH)
1959 UN adopts the declaration of children's rights
1962 US lifts blockade of Cuba
1969 Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island
1974 The US Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation
1977 Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
1637 Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1776 British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee
1780 Britain declares war on Holland
1789 New Jersey becomes 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
1861 A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government
1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg
1866 Howard University founded (Wash, DC)
1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1888 William Bundy patents the timecard clock
1894 US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1914 US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1917 British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions and later pushed back
1917 Ukrainian Republic declared
1919 1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Az
1931 Commercial teletype service begins
1943 US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Island
1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1947 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1300 MPH)
1959 UN adopts the declaration of children's rights
1962 US lifts blockade of Cuba
1969 Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island
1974 The US Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation
1977 Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
