blue water massey
Well-known Member
July 19
1843 Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller and becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world
1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
Birthdays:
1814 Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company
1883 ? Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer( Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye and Superman plus many more)
Deaths:
1958 Robert Earl Hughes weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
Thought for the day:
" Every noble work is at first impossible. "
1843 Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller and becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world
1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
Birthdays:
1814 Samuel Colt, American businessman, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company
1883 ? Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer( Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye and Superman plus many more)
Deaths:
1958 Robert Earl Hughes weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
Thought for the day:
" Every noble work is at first impossible. "