blue water massey
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Nov. 25
1715 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1758 Britain captures Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
1783 Britain evacuates NY, their last military position in US
1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
1864 Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1874 US Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers
1876 In retaliation for the American defeat at Little Bighorn, US Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River
1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy
1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springfield, IL
1917 WW I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano
1933 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
1940 WW II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder
1941 HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo
1947 New Zealand accedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion
1948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
1952 Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends
1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1960 1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa
1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1967 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos
1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity
1983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
1983 World's greatest robbery-?25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England
1984 William Schroeder, becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1988 Widespread earthquake hits NE US, Canada; no damage reported
1715 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1758 Britain captures Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
1783 Britain evacuates NY, their last military position in US
1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
1864 Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1874 US Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers
1876 In retaliation for the American defeat at Little Bighorn, US Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River
1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy
1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springfield, IL
1917 WW I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano
1933 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
1940 WW II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder
1941 HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo
1947 New Zealand accedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion
1948 Fort Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
1952 Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends
1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1960 1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa
1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1967 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos
1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity
1983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
1983 World's greatest robbery-?25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England
1984 William Schroeder, becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1988 Widespread earthquake hits NE US, Canada; no damage reported
