blue water massey
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Oct. 17
1691 New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY
1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1814 Eight people die in the London Beer Flood
1829 Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opened
1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
1871 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus
1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)
1899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service
1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I
1931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
1933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
1941 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland
1947 The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time
1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
1957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, not corrected till Dec 3
1967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
1969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
1973 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins
1975 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at Natl Space Tech Labs, Miss
1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
1978 Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship
1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem
1988 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
1691 New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY
1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
1814 Eight people die in the London Beer Flood
1829 Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opened
1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
1871 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus
1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)
1899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service
1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I
1931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
1933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
1941 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland
1947 The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time
1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
1957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, not corrected till Dec 3
1967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
1969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
1973 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins
1975 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at Natl Space Tech Labs, Miss
1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
1978 Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship
1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem
1988 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft