blue water massey
Well-known Member
Mar. 22
1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
1622 1st Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites, Jamestown VA
1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1765 Stamp Act passed: 1st direct British tax on colonists
1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1865 Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
1871 William Holden of North Carolina is 1st governor removed from office by impeachment
1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require gender equality in employment
1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
1914 World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
1939 Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1942 Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1945 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein
1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1947 President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
1954 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield MI
1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1990 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands
1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
1622 1st Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites, Jamestown VA
1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1765 Stamp Act passed: 1st direct British tax on colonists
1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1865 Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
1871 William Holden of North Carolina is 1st governor removed from office by impeachment
1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require gender equality in employment
1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
1914 World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
1939 Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1942 Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1945 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein
1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1947 President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
1954 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield MI
1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1990 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands