blue water massey
Well-known Member
June 29
1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
1914 Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia
1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1927 First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable-pitch propeller.
Birthdays:
1793 Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller
1858 George Washington Goethals engineer (built Panama Canal)
1861 William James Mayo surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
Deaths:
1933 Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1967 Jayne Mansfield actress, dies in a car crash
Thought for the day:
" The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn t. "
1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
1914 Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia
1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1927 First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable-pitch propeller.
Birthdays:
1793 Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller
1858 George Washington Goethals engineer (built Panama Canal)
1861 William James Mayo surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
Deaths:
1933 Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1967 Jayne Mansfield actress, dies in a car crash
Thought for the day:
" The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn t. "