blue water massey
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Jan. 18
1788 The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay
1896 An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith
1903 A transmitter in Wellfleet, Massachusetts sends the first transatlantic radio transmission to originate in the United States
1911 Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship
Birthdays:
1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden inventor (1st commercial usable barbed wire)
1849 Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia
1854 Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
Deaths:
1862 John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States
1936 Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet
Thought for the day:
" No really great man every thought himself so. "
1788 The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay
1896 An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith
1903 A transmitter in Wellfleet, Massachusetts sends the first transatlantic radio transmission to originate in the United States
1911 Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship
Birthdays:
1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden inventor (1st commercial usable barbed wire)
1849 Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia
1854 Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
Deaths:
1862 John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States
1936 Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet
Thought for the day:
" No really great man every thought himself so. "