blue water massey
Well-known Member
Mar. 18
1673 Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1813 David Melville, Newport RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas
1818 Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
1834 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Pennsylvania (275 meter long)
1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
1865 Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma AL
1865 Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
1870 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland CA)
1890 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
1892 Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1915 During the Battle of Gallipoli, 3 battleships are sunk in naval attack on the Dardanelles
1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
1937 A human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan, Italy
1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
1943 James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Netherlands), torpedoed & sinks
1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod
1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1945 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
1945 US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)
1952 Communist offensive in Korea
1959 President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
1965 USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 minutes)
1969 ? The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia
1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
1977 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia
1979 Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran
1989 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth
1990 Largest Art robbery in the history (Boston), 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
1673 Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1813 David Melville, Newport RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas
1818 Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
1834 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Pennsylvania (275 meter long)
1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo
1865 Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma AL
1865 Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
1870 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland CA)
1890 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)
1892 Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1915 During the Battle of Gallipoli, 3 battleships are sunk in naval attack on the Dardanelles
1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
1937 A human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan, Italy
1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
1943 James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Netherlands), torpedoed & sinks
1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod
1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1945 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
1945 US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu
1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)
1952 Communist offensive in Korea
1959 President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
1965 USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 minutes)
1969 ? The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia
1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
1977 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia
1979 Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran
1989 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth
1990 Largest Art robbery in the history (Boston), 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen