blue water massey
Well-known Member
Oct. 23
1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland
1812 Claude Fran?ois de Malet, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte
1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri
1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price
1867 Seventy-two Senators are summoned to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate
1876 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1888 Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, vested
1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1911 ? First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to view Turkish army lines
1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1929 After a steady decline in prices since Sept, the NY Stock Ex begins to show signs of panic
1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1942 The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on Oct 26
1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines
1944 Soviet army invades Hungary
1946 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC) (Flushing Meadows)
1954 Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 Hungarian Revolution began
1957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1962 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m
1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (the Blue Flame)
1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness
1984 STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army
1805 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland
1812 Claude Fran?ois de Malet, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte
1864 Battle of Westport, Missouri
1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price
1867 Seventy-two Senators are summoned to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate
1876 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
1888 Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, vested
1910 Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
1911 ? First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to view Turkish army lines
1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)
1915 25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote
1929 After a steady decline in prices since Sept, the NY Stock Ex begins to show signs of panic
1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1942 The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on Oct 26
1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines
1944 Soviet army invades Hungary
1946 UN General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st NYC) (Flushing Meadows)
1954 Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany
1956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 Hungarian Revolution began
1957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1962 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m
1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (the Blue Flame)
1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness
1984 STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
