blue water massey
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Feb. 1
1709 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story
is the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
1788 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1796 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York (Toronto)
1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen
1861 Texas becomes 7th state to secede
1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1864 Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi
1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1898 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company
1917 Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1920 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul MN)
1920 R.C.M.P forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
1933 German Parliament dissolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland
1942 U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls?Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the US against
Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater
1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
1944 US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1951 1st telecast of atomic explosion - US nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1951 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1957 Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs
1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1961 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1968 Canada's three military services, are unified into the Canadian Forces
1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
1987 163 day strike against Deere & Company ends
1709 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story
is the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
1788 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1796 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York (Toronto)
1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen
1861 Texas becomes 7th state to secede
1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1864 Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi
1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1898 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company
1917 Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1920 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul MN)
1920 R.C.M.P forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
1933 German Parliament dissolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland
1942 U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls?Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the US against
Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater
1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
1944 US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1951 1st telecast of atomic explosion - US nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1951 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1957 Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs
1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1961 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1968 Canada's three military services, are unified into the Canadian Forces
1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
1987 163 day strike against Deere & Company ends