blue water massey
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Apr. 27
1777 The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army
1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1813 US troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (now Toronto, Canada)
1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
1840 Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid
1860 Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
1863 Battle of Streight's raid Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff AL
1865 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" explodes on the Mississippi River
1877 President Rutherford Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends
1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 German troops occupy Athens Greece
1945 US 5th army enters Genua
1945 German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland
1946 1st radar installation aboard a commercial ship installed
1953 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully working MiG-15
1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays
1961 Sierra Leone declares independence from UK
1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1974 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. Pres. R Nixon
1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston WV
1981 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse
1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr, attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan, begins
1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
1992 Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history
1777 The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army
1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1813 US troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (now Toronto, Canada)
1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
1840 Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid
1860 Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
1863 Battle of Streight's raid Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff AL
1865 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" explodes on the Mississippi River
1877 President Rutherford Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends
1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 German troops occupy Athens Greece
1945 US 5th army enters Genua
1945 German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland
1946 1st radar installation aboard a commercial ship installed
1953 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully working MiG-15
1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays
1961 Sierra Leone declares independence from UK
1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1974 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. Pres. R Nixon
1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston WV
1981 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse
1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr, attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan, begins
1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
1992 Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history
