blue water massey
Well-known Member
July 18
64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1853 1st train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, Me.-Montreal, PQ
1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, Americas 1st intl railroad
1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1914 US army air service 1st comes into being, in the Signal Corps
1918 US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I
1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1932 US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
1936 Spanish Civil War begans, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
1947 US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Islands
1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1964 Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)
1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1966 Gemini 10 launched
1968 Intel incorporates
1969 Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge
1974 World's tallest structure, (at that time) 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1976 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
1978 Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1853 1st train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, Me.-Montreal, PQ
1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, Americas 1st intl railroad
1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1914 US army air service 1st comes into being, in the Signal Corps
1918 US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I
1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1932 US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
1936 Spanish Civil War begans, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
1947 US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Islands
1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1964 Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)
1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1966 Gemini 10 launched
1968 Intel incorporates
1969 Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge
1974 World's tallest structure, (at that time) 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1976 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
1978 Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
