blue water massey
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due to YT doing server work I'm posting early
June 26
1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear
effects of iron on soil!
1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia
1862 Day 2 of the 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville
1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
1902 England establishes Order of Merit
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
1917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I
1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published
1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Domincan Republic
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions
1934 W E B Du Bois resigns position at NAACP
1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
1941 Finland enters WW II against Russia
1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin
1949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway
1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli &
Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4s
June 26
1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear
effects of iron on soil!
1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia
1862 Day 2 of the 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville
1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
1902 England establishes Order of Merit
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
1917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I
1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published
1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Domincan Republic
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions
1934 W E B Du Bois resigns position at NAACP
1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
1941 Finland enters WW II against Russia
1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin
1949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway
1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli &
Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4s