blue water massey
Well-known Member
May 5
1780 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston)
1809 Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
1814 British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego NY
1835 The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen
1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1861 Alexandria VA - CS troops abandon city
1862 French army intervenes in Puebla M?xico: Cinco de Mayo
1862 Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg VA
1863 Battle of Tupelo MS
1864 Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
1864 Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
1864 Battle of Wilderness VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
1865 1st US train robbery (North Bend OH)
1866 Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York
1915 German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
1920 German-Latvian peace treaty signed
1930 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
1941 2 Fokker's employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England
1942 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
1942 US begins rationing sugar during WWII
1944 Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim
1945 Denmark liberated from Nazi control
1945 Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague
1945 A Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon
1955 West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1965 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
1780 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston)
1809 Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
1814 British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego NY
1835 The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen
1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1861 Alexandria VA - CS troops abandon city
1862 French army intervenes in Puebla M?xico: Cinco de Mayo
1862 Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg VA
1863 Battle of Tupelo MS
1864 Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
1864 Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
1864 Battle of Wilderness VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
1865 1st US train robbery (North Bend OH)
1866 Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York
1915 German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
1920 German-Latvian peace treaty signed
1930 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
1941 2 Fokker's employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England
1942 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
1942 US begins rationing sugar during WWII
1944 Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim
1945 Denmark liberated from Nazi control
1945 Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague
1945 A Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon
1955 West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1965 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
