blue water massey
Well-known Member
Mar. 3
1634 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
1791 1st Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
1845 Florida becomes 27th state
1849 Territory of Minnesota is organized
1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
1862 General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid MO
1863 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
1863 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
1863 Idaho Territory forms
1885 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1891 Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
1905 US Forest Service forms
1911 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Rebel graves opens, Missouri
1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
1917 Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
1921 Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
1931 The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem
1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated
1942 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1943 US defeats Japan & wins Battle of Bismark Sea
1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague
1945 Roermond/Venlo Netherlands, freed
1945 US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
1945 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
1959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, is launched
1969 Apollo 9 launched into 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain GA
1991 Iraqi generals & General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire
1634 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
1791 1st Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
1845 Florida becomes 27th state
1849 Territory of Minnesota is organized
1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
1862 General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid MO
1863 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
1863 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
1863 Idaho Territory forms
1885 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1891 Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
1905 US Forest Service forms
1911 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Rebel graves opens, Missouri
1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
1917 Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
1921 Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
1931 The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem
1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated
1942 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1943 US defeats Japan & wins Battle of Bismark Sea
1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague
1945 Roermond/Venlo Netherlands, freed
1945 US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
1945 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
1959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, is launched
1969 Apollo 9 launched into 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain GA
1991 Iraqi generals & General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire
