blue water massey
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Feb. 8
1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock
1807 Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
1837 1st Vice President chosen by the Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren administration)
1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery AL
1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
1865 Delaware voters reject the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901
1898 John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming machine (Massachusetts)
1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated & chartered (William D Boyce-Chicago)
1912 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville FL
1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast
1918 "Stars & Stripes", weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
1922 President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House
1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk
1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland
1945 Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald
1948 The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced
1964 Representative Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, M?xico
1971 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
1973 Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
1974 After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to Skylab, returns to Earth
1984 1st time 8 people in space
1988 NASA launches DOD-2
1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock
1807 Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
1837 1st Vice President chosen by the Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren administration)
1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery AL
1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
1865 Delaware voters reject the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901
1898 John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming machine (Massachusetts)
1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated & chartered (William D Boyce-Chicago)
1912 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville FL
1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast
1918 "Stars & Stripes", weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
1922 President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House
1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk
1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland
1945 Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald
1948 The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced
1964 Representative Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, M?xico
1971 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
1973 Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
1974 After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to Skylab, returns to Earth
1984 1st time 8 people in space
1988 NASA launches DOD-2
1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
