blue water massey
Well-known Member
Feb. 3
1690 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Massachusetts)
1743 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1781 British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius
1783 Spain recognizes US independence
1809 Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
1860 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
1864 Sherman's march through Georgia
1870 15th Amendment is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race
1887 To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1894 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath ME
1913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1916 Canada's original Parliament building, in Ottawa, burns down
1917 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service (San Francisco)
1919 League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
1930 Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
1942 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1943 The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat
1944 During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. forces seize Kwajalein Atoll
1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
1945 U.S. forces and allies begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan
1947 -81?F (-63?C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
1959 Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper"
Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa
1962 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
1965 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
1966 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)
1966 1st soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1973 President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1982 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
1984 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1690 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Massachusetts)
1743 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1781 British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius
1783 Spain recognizes US independence
1809 Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
1860 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
1864 Sherman's march through Georgia
1870 15th Amendment is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race
1887 To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1894 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath ME
1913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1916 Canada's original Parliament building, in Ottawa, burns down
1917 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service (San Francisco)
1919 League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
1930 Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
1942 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1943 The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat
1944 During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. forces seize Kwajalein Atoll
1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
1945 U.S. forces and allies begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan
1947 -81?F (-63?C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
1959 Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper"
Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa
1962 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
1965 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
1966 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)
1966 1st soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1973 President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1982 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
1984 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched