blue water massey
Well-known Member
May 21
1602 Where later to become, Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1819 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
1840 New Zealand became a British colony
1861 North Carolina is 10th state to secede from Union
1861 Richmond VA is designated Confederate Capital
1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia
1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
1906 Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1914 Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota
1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 buildings
1918 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1927 Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
1941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
1942 Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1944 Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1954 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1968 US nuclear-powered sub (Scorpion), with 99 men, reported missing
1980 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service academy
1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka
1602 Where later to become, Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1819 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
1840 New Zealand became a British colony
1861 North Carolina is 10th state to secede from Union
1861 Richmond VA is designated Confederate Capital
1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia
1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
1906 Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1914 Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota
1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 buildings
1918 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1927 Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
1941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
1942 Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1944 Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1954 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1968 US nuclear-powered sub (Scorpion), with 99 men, reported missing
1980 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service academy
1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka
