blue water massey
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Nov. 23
1765 People of Frederick County MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine, Troy, NY
1848 Female Medical Educational Society founded in Boston
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m)
1863 Battle of Chattanooga begins
1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process
1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)
1914 Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz
1924 Edwin Hubble's discovery that the Andromeda nebula is actually another universe
1939 HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
1940 Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers
1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1942 Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed
1943 US forces seized control of Tarawa & Makin from Japanese
1946 French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians
1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented-FG Back
1955 British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia
1960 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
1971 China People's Republic seated for the first time in UN Security Council
1972 The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket
1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1980 series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1982 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB and mated for STS-6
1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1992 The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada
1765 People of Frederick County MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine, Troy, NY
1848 Female Medical Educational Society founded in Boston
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m)
1863 Battle of Chattanooga begins
1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process
1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)
1914 Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz
1924 Edwin Hubble's discovery that the Andromeda nebula is actually another universe
1939 HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
1940 Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers
1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1942 Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed
1943 US forces seized control of Tarawa & Makin from Japanese
1946 French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians
1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented-FG Back
1955 British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia
1960 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
1971 China People's Republic seated for the first time in UN Security Council
1972 The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket
1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1980 series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1982 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB and mated for STS-6
1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1992 The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada