blue water massey
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Apr. 21
1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1794 NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British
1828 Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from M?xico
1856 1st railroad bridge across Mississippi River, Rock Island IL-Davenport IA
1857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1878 New York installs 1st firehouse pole
1898 Spanish-American War begins
1908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
1914 A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz
1918 German fighter ace known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed in France
1913 Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper
1934 "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster
1941 Greece surrenders to Nazi-Germany
1945 Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory
1945 Russian army arrives at outskirts of Berlin
1945 US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg
1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 32,000 meters
1972 John Young & Charles Duke explore Moon (Apollo 16)
1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
1975 Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
1984 Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AID
1989 In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square
1992 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers
1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1794 NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British
1828 Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from M?xico
1856 1st railroad bridge across Mississippi River, Rock Island IL-Davenport IA
1857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1878 New York installs 1st firehouse pole
1898 Spanish-American War begins
1908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn't)
1914 A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz
1918 German fighter ace known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed in France
1913 Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper
1934 "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster
1941 Greece surrenders to Nazi-Germany
1945 Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory
1945 Russian army arrives at outskirts of Berlin
1945 US 7th Army occupies Neurenberg
1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 32,000 meters
1972 John Young & Charles Duke explore Moon (Apollo 16)
1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
1975 Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
1984 Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AID
1989 In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square
1992 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers
