blue water massey
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Apr. 30
1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1562 1st French colonists in US Jean Ribaut & Hugenots at Parris Island NC
1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st President of US
1798 Department of the Navy is established
1803 US doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
1860 Navaho Indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
1861 President Abraham Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory
1862 Swift Run Gap WV skirmishes
1864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
1864 Battle of Jenkins' Ferry AR; General William Read Scurry is killed
1865 General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill VA
1871 The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory
1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1900 USA annexes Hawaii
1900 Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express
1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc WI
1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
1945 Red Army occupies Demmin
1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
1945 US troops attack the Elbe
1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide
1947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
1948 Organization of American States charter signed at Bogot?, Colombia
1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
1974 President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1975 Last US helicopter leaves US embassy groundsin Vietnam, Saigon surrenders
1982 Iranian offensive in Khusistan
1988 Largest banana split ever, at 4.55 miles long, is made in Selinsgrove PA
1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1562 1st French colonists in US Jean Ribaut & Hugenots at Parris Island NC
1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st President of US
1798 Department of the Navy is established
1803 US doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
1860 Navaho Indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
1861 President Abraham Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory
1862 Swift Run Gap WV skirmishes
1864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
1864 Battle of Jenkins' Ferry AR; General William Read Scurry is killed
1865 General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill VA
1871 The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory
1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1900 USA annexes Hawaii
1900 Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express
1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc WI
1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
1945 Red Army occupies Demmin
1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
1945 US troops attack the Elbe
1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide
1947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
1948 Organization of American States charter signed at Bogot?, Colombia
1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
1974 President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1975 Last US helicopter leaves US embassy groundsin Vietnam, Saigon surrenders
1982 Iranian offensive in Khusistan
1988 Largest banana split ever, at 4.55 miles long, is made in Selinsgrove PA