blue water massey
Well-known Member
July 21
1836 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec
1865 In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown
1904 Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brilli? in Ostend, Belgium
1983 The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 ?C (−128.6 ?F)
Birthdays:
1810 Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist
1899 Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist
1924 Don Knotts, American actor and screenwriter
Deaths:
1957 Bernard Spooner US inventor of bulletproof jacket
1998 Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut
Thought for the day:
" Character is what you know you are, Not what others think you are. "
1836 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec
1865 In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown
1904 Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brilli? in Ostend, Belgium
1983 The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 ?C (−128.6 ?F)
Birthdays:
1810 Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist
1899 Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist
1924 Don Knotts, American actor and screenwriter
Deaths:
1957 Bernard Spooner US inventor of bulletproof jacket
1998 Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut
Thought for the day:
" Character is what you know you are, Not what others think you are. "