blue water massey
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Feb. 7
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
1789 1st national (Presidential) election in US
1795 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified
1804 John Deere, American businessman, founded Deere & Company is born
1822 Liberia colonized by Americans
1830 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co begins carrying revenue traffic
1861 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine
1862 Battle of Manassas Junction VA
1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco
1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panam? Canal
1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London
1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies
1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts
1944 Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
1962 The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports
1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala
1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1990 Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power
1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1499)
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
1789 1st national (Presidential) election in US
1795 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified
1804 John Deere, American businessman, founded Deere & Company is born
1822 Liberia colonized by Americans
1830 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co begins carrying revenue traffic
1861 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine
1862 Battle of Manassas Junction VA
1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco
1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panam? Canal
1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London
1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & East Indies
1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts
1944 Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
1962 The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports
1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala
1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1990 Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power
1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1499)