blue water massey
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1636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1777 Battle of Germantown
1779 The Fort Wilson Riot takes place
1795 Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot"
1824 Mexico becomes a republic
1830 Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1862 Battle of Corinth ends
1883 Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1910 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1912 Nicaraguan Gen Zeledon, opponent of US occupation, is executed
1916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
1917 The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders
1918 An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007
1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore
1940 Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps
1943 World War II: U.S. captures the Solomon Islands from the Japanese
1957 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite
1957 Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario
1958 5th French republic established
1958 Transatlantic jet passenger service began (BOAC)
1959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
1960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1963 Gambia achieves full internal self-government
1965 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
1970 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast
1971 Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
1983 Richard Noble reaches record 633.4 mph (1019 kph) in jet-powered car
2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for spaceflight, first private craft to fly into space.
1636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1777 Battle of Germantown
1779 The Fort Wilson Riot takes place
1795 Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot"
1824 Mexico becomes a republic
1830 Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1862 Battle of Corinth ends
1883 Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1910 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1912 Nicaraguan Gen Zeledon, opponent of US occupation, is executed
1916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
1917 The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders
1918 An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007
1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore
1940 Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps
1943 World War II: U.S. captures the Solomon Islands from the Japanese
1957 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite
1957 Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario
1958 5th French republic established
1958 Transatlantic jet passenger service began (BOAC)
1959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
1960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1963 Gambia achieves full internal self-government
1965 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
1970 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast
1971 Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
1983 Richard Noble reaches record 633.4 mph (1019 kph) in jet-powered car
2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for spaceflight, first private craft to fly into space.