blue water massey
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Nov. 9
1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts
1780 In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British fail in a surprise attack
1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1821 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1861 Battle of Piketon, KY
1862 Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac
1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
1877 American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1887 The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1906 T Roosevelt first sitting President of the US to make an official trip outside the country
1913 Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedoes
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1927 Giant Panda discovered, China
1930 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1937 Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China
1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970 m
1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)
1967 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
1976 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
1989 East Berlin opens its borders
1990 President Bush announces DOUBLING of US forces in Gulf
1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts
1780 In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British fail in a surprise attack
1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1821 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1861 Battle of Piketon, KY
1862 Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac
1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
1877 American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1887 The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1906 T Roosevelt first sitting President of the US to make an official trip outside the country
1913 Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedoes
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1927 Giant Panda discovered, China
1930 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1937 Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China
1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970 m
1965 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, & Ontario (NY blackout)
1967 1st unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module
1976 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
1989 East Berlin opens its borders
1990 President Bush announces DOUBLING of US forces in Gulf
