blue water massey
Well-known Member
May 31
1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1678 Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes
1775 The Mecklenburg Resolves are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina
1790 US copyright law enacted
1861 General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks); North defeats South
1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
1870 E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement
1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1907 Taxis 1st began running in NYC
1911 The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched
1912 US marines land on Cuba
1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
1916 Battle of Skagerrak: British-German sea battle at Jutland
1916 British battle cruiser Invincible explodes
1916 British & German fleets fight Battle of Jutland
1927 The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003
1928 1st aerial cross of the Pacific takes off from Oakland
1937 German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
1941 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
1941 British troops vacate Kreta
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
1942 Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia
1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy
1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
1985 41 Tornados in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York & Canada
1985 Guatemala adopts constitution
1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1678 Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes
1775 The Mecklenburg Resolves are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina
1790 US copyright law enacted
1861 General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks); North defeats South
1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
1870 E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement
1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1907 Taxis 1st began running in NYC
1911 The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched
1912 US marines land on Cuba
1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
1916 Battle of Skagerrak: British-German sea battle at Jutland
1916 British battle cruiser Invincible explodes
1916 British & German fleets fight Battle of Jutland
1927 The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003
1928 1st aerial cross of the Pacific takes off from Oakland
1937 German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
1941 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
1941 British troops vacate Kreta
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
1942 Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia
1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy
1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
1985 41 Tornados in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York & Canada
1985 Guatemala adopts constitution
