blue water massey
Well-known Member
Sept. 6
1522 The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world
1620 Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England to the New World
1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1848 National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1853 Women's Rights Convention met (NYC)
1861 Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky,
1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland
1863 After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC
1869 1st westbound train arrives in SF
1869 Mine fire at Avondale Pennsylvania
1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1876 Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1901 Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York
1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company established
1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop
1914 Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1939 South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany
1944 The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces
1948 Juliana becomes queen of the Netherlands
1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain
1976 Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1983 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1986 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
1988 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1991 USSR recognizes independence of the 3 baltic republics
1997 The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London
1522 The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world
1620 Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England to the New World
1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1848 National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1853 Women's Rights Convention met (NYC)
1861 Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky,
1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland
1863 After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC
1869 1st westbound train arrives in SF
1869 Mine fire at Avondale Pennsylvania
1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1876 Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1901 Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York
1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company established
1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop
1914 Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1939 South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany
1944 The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces
1948 Juliana becomes queen of the Netherlands
1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain
1976 Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1983 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1986 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
1988 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1991 USSR recognizes independence of the 3 baltic republics
1997 The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London