blue water massey
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Apr. 29
1707 English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain
1781 French fleet stops Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
1813 Rubber is patented
1857 US Army, Pacific Division HQ is permanently established at Presidio (San Francisco)
1861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth MS
1862 New Orleans falls to Union forces during Civil War
1863 Battle of Chancellorville VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 Skirmish at Jenkins' Ferry AR begins
1882 "Elektromote", forerunner of the trolleybus, is tested by Werner von Siemens in Berlin
1916 The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut
1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens
1942 Japanese troops march into Lashio, cut off Burma Road
1943 US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia
1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague
1945 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)
1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
1945 US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
1945 Venice & Mestre are captured by the Allies
1945 HMS Goodall is torpedoed by U-286, last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in of WW II
1946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir VA
1970 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1974 President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
1975 N Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of S Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands
1977 British Aerospace forms
1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
1995 Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario Canada
1707 English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain
1781 French fleet stops Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
1813 Rubber is patented
1857 US Army, Pacific Division HQ is permanently established at Presidio (San Francisco)
1861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth MS
1862 New Orleans falls to Union forces during Civil War
1863 Battle of Chancellorville VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 Skirmish at Jenkins' Ferry AR begins
1882 "Elektromote", forerunner of the trolleybus, is tested by Werner von Siemens in Berlin
1916 The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut
1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens
1942 Japanese troops march into Lashio, cut off Burma Road
1943 US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia
1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague
1945 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)
1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
1945 US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
1945 Venice & Mestre are captured by the Allies
1945 HMS Goodall is torpedoed by U-286, last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in of WW II
1946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir VA
1970 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1974 President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
1975 N Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of S Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands
1977 British Aerospace forms
1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
1995 Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario Canada
