blue water massey
Well-known Member
May 7
1718 The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville
1763 Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British
1771 Samuel Hearne explores the Copper Mine River of Canada
1789 1st inaugural ball (for George Washington in New York NY)
1800 Indiana Territory organized
1862 Battle of West Point VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
1864 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction VA (Drewry's Bluff)
1873 US marines attack Panam?
1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1907 Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race (38.22 mph)
1914 US Congress establishes mother's day
1915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine
1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
1943 US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
1944 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1945 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam
1946 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded
1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
1958 Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 meters
1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1984 $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1992 Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law
1718 The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville
1763 Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British
1771 Samuel Hearne explores the Copper Mine River of Canada
1789 1st inaugural ball (for George Washington in New York NY)
1800 Indiana Territory organized
1862 Battle of West Point VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
1864 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction VA (Drewry's Bluff)
1873 US marines attack Panam?
1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1907 Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race (38.22 mph)
1914 US Congress establishes mother's day
1915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine
1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia
1943 US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville Tunisia
1944 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1945 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam
1946 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded
1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
1958 Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 meters
1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1984 $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1992 Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law