blue water massey
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Jan. 25
1775 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield MA
1791 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada
1799 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1856 Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians
1858 Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter
1863 Battle of Kinston NC
1863 General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
1865 The CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
1870 Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
1877 Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company
1915 Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to San Francisco)
1916 Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary
1918 Russia declared a republic of Soviets
1919 Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
1942 Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom
1945 Grand Rapids MI becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
1945 The Battle of the Bulge ends
1945 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
1947 Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device"
1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1955 Columbia University develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1955 US & Panam? sign canal treaty
1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
1983 Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
1988 Vice President Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" (Iran-Contra affair)
1992 Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
1994 US space probe Clementine launched
1775 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield MA
1791 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada
1799 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1856 Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians
1858 Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter
1863 Battle of Kinston NC
1863 General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
1865 The CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
1870 Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
1877 Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company
1915 Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to San Francisco)
1916 Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary
1918 Russia declared a republic of Soviets
1919 Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
1942 Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom
1945 Grand Rapids MI becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
1945 The Battle of the Bulge ends
1945 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
1947 Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device"
1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1955 Columbia University develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1955 US & Panam? sign canal treaty
1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
1983 Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
1988 Vice President Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" (Iran-Contra affair)
1992 Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
1994 US space probe Clementine launched
