This Day in History June 20

blue water massey

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June 20

1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1819 Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1877 Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1945 The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America

Births

1860 ? Alexander Winton, Scottish-American race car driver and engineer(Winton Auto)

Deaths

1947 Benjamin Buggsy' Siegel gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1966 Georges Lema?tre originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71
1972 ? Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's

Thought for the day

" Take a lesson from the weather: It pays no attention to criticism. "
 
On a personal note .. my late older brother was born 78 years ago. He was the first born in our farming family. It was haying time and my dad was too busy gettin the hay in to attend to his wife .. my mom .. during the delivery. He never lived that down!
 

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