blue water massey
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Mar. 13
1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
1862 The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation
1868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1884 US adopts Standard Time
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York NY)
1928 St Franciso Valley Dam burst (California)
1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1938 Anschlu?-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1969 Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1988 The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world opens, Japan
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
1862 The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation
1868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1884 US adopts Standard Time
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York NY)
1928 St Franciso Valley Dam burst (California)
1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1938 Anschlu?-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1969 Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1988 The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world opens, Japan
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill