blue water massey
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Dec. 15
1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
1791 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1836 Patent Office burns in Washington DC
1854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
1864 Battle of Nashville TN
1864 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs VA
1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
1916 French defeat Germans in WWI Battle of Verdun
1925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
1933 The 21st Amendment to the US officially becomes effective, repealing the 18th Amendment
1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford DE
1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1941 German submarine U-127 sinks
1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
1944 US troops lands on Mindoro
1950 NYC's Port Authority opens
1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
1956 Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
1960 Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate US President-Elect J.F. Kennedy
1964 1st time 4 people in space
1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
1967 Silver Bay bridge (Ohio-West Virginia) collapses during afternoon rush hour
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts, spills 7.6 m g of crude when the ship runs aground
1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
1981 NASA launches Intelsat V
1983 Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
1791 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1836 Patent Office burns in Washington DC
1854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
1864 Battle of Nashville TN
1864 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs VA
1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
1916 French defeat Germans in WWI Battle of Verdun
1925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
1933 The 21st Amendment to the US officially becomes effective, repealing the 18th Amendment
1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford DE
1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1941 German submarine U-127 sinks
1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
1944 US troops lands on Mindoro
1950 NYC's Port Authority opens
1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
1956 Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
1960 Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate US President-Elect J.F. Kennedy
1964 1st time 4 people in space
1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
1967 Silver Bay bridge (Ohio-West Virginia) collapses during afternoon rush hour
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts, spills 7.6 m g of crude when the ship runs aground
1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
1981 NASA launches Intelsat V
1983 Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet