blue water massey
Well-known Member
July 26
1775 Benjamin Franklin becomes 1st Postmaster General
1788 New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution
1790 US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
1799 Isaac Babbitt invented babbitt's metal for bearings
1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1848 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
1863 At Salineville, OH John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender
1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established (F.B.I.)
1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)
1926 National Bar Association incorporates
1945 Churchill resigns as Britain's PM
1947 Department of Defense established
1947 National Security Act establishes the CIA
1948 Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in the armed forces
1953 Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban rev
1956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal
1957 USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
1963 US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain
1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
1971 Apollo 15 launched to the Moon
1974 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
1775 Benjamin Franklin becomes 1st Postmaster General
1788 New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution
1790 US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
1799 Isaac Babbitt invented babbitt's metal for bearings
1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1848 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
1863 At Salineville, OH John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender
1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established (F.B.I.)
1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)
1926 National Bar Association incorporates
1945 Churchill resigns as Britain's PM
1947 Department of Defense established
1947 National Security Act establishes the CIA
1948 Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in the armed forces
1953 Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban rev
1956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal
1957 USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
1963 US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain
1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
1971 Apollo 15 launched to the Moon
1974 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco