blue water massey
Well-known Member
June 20
1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1756 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1779 Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol
1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent
1819 Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1837 England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
1863 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state
1867 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
1874 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
1893 Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass
1895 1st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1943 National Congress of Racial Equality organizes
1943 New Qu‚bec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Qu‚bec (3« km dia)
1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1947 Pres Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1963 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
1988 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the US
1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1756 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1779 Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol
1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent
1819 Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1837 England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
1863 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state
1867 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
1874 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
1893 Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass
1895 1st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1943 National Congress of Racial Equality organizes
1943 New Qu‚bec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Qu‚bec (3« km dia)
1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1947 Pres Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1963 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
1988 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the US