blue water massey
Well-known Member
Dec. 4
1674 Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek. (The mission would later grow into the city of Chicago.)
1812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster PA patents a horse-drawn mower
1867 Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange)
1918 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office
Birthdays:
1912 Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot
Deaths:
1850 William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented an electric motor
Thought for the day:
" A closed mouth gathers no foot. "
1674 Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek. (The mission would later grow into the city of Chicago.)
1812 Peter Gaillard of Lancaster PA patents a horse-drawn mower
1867 Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange)
1918 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office
Birthdays:
1912 Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot
Deaths:
1850 William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented an electric motor
Thought for the day:
" A closed mouth gathers no foot. "