blue water massey
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1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp
1861 Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the US Army
1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state
1913 Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across US
1917 Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history"
1922 Benito Mussolini becomes premier of Italy
1926 Erich Weiss better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit
1940 The Battle of Britain ends: The United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion
1941 After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed
1941 The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland
1943 An F4U Corsair the first successful radar-guided interception by a USN or USMC aircraft
1950 Collazo & Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC
1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands
1956 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek
1956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st pres of S Vietnam
1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)
2000 Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station
1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp
1861 Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the US Army
1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state
1913 Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across US
1917 Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history"
1922 Benito Mussolini becomes premier of Italy
1926 Erich Weiss better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit
1940 The Battle of Britain ends: The United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion
1941 After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed
1941 The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland
1943 An F4U Corsair the first successful radar-guided interception by a USN or USMC aircraft
1950 Collazo & Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, DC
1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands
1956 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek
1956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st pres of S Vietnam
1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)
2000 Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station