blue water massey
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May 10
1676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia Government begins
1752 Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod
1775 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander
1775 Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution
1778 The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania
1797 1st Navy ship, the "United States" is launched
1823 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling
1861 Union troops march on state militia in St Louis MI
1862 Battle of Plum Run Bend TN (Plum Point Bend)
1864 Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
1864 Skirmish at Ny River VA
1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Irwinsville GA
1869 Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Point UT-Transcontinental RR
1910 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
1918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor
1924 J Edgar Hoover appointed head of the FBI
1933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany
1940 British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms
1940 French marines stationed on Aruba
1940 Nazi armies invade the Benelux countries of Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg
1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
1941 England's House of Commons & Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz
1945 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
1945 Russian troops occupy Prague
1950 1st Netherlands-US telex sent
1960 US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
1969 Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space
1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937 (become known as Hamburger Hill)
1990 French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph
1676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia Government begins
1752 Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod
1775 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander
1775 Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution
1778 The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania
1797 1st Navy ship, the "United States" is launched
1823 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling
1861 Union troops march on state militia in St Louis MI
1862 Battle of Plum Run Bend TN (Plum Point Bend)
1864 Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
1864 Skirmish at Ny River VA
1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Irwinsville GA
1869 Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Point UT-Transcontinental RR
1910 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
1918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor
1924 J Edgar Hoover appointed head of the FBI
1933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany
1940 British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms
1940 French marines stationed on Aruba
1940 Nazi armies invade the Benelux countries of Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg
1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
1941 England's House of Commons & Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz
1945 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
1945 Russian troops occupy Prague
1950 1st Netherlands-US telex sent
1960 US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
1969 Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space
1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937 (become known as Hamburger Hill)
1990 French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph
