blue water massey
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May 9
1671 Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
1785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles
1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends M?xico back to Rio Grande
1862 Battle of Farmington MS
1862 Battle of Fort Pickens FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
1862 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport RI
1864 Battle of Cloyd's Mount & Swift Creek VA (Drewery's Bluff, Fort Darling)
1864 Battle of Dalton GA
1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
1864 Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church VA
1865 Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama
1899 John Albert Burr patented an improved rotary blade lawn mower
1904 Steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph
1914 President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
1915 German & French fight the Battle of Artois
1918 Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium
1941 English Army breaks German spy codes
1943 5th German Panser army surrenders in Tunisia
1944 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
1945 Jersey liberated from Nazis
1945 Victory celebration at Red Square
1960 US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
1962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
1965 Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1974 House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1979 US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
1980 A Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
1989 VP Dan Quayle says at a College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind"
1671 Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
1785 Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles
1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends M?xico back to Rio Grande
1862 Battle of Farmington MS
1862 Battle of Fort Pickens FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
1862 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport RI
1864 Battle of Cloyd's Mount & Swift Creek VA (Drewery's Bluff, Fort Darling)
1864 Battle of Dalton GA
1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
1864 Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church VA
1865 Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama
1899 John Albert Burr patented an improved rotary blade lawn mower
1904 Steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph
1914 President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
1915 German & French fight the Battle of Artois
1918 Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium
1941 English Army breaks German spy codes
1943 5th German Panser army surrenders in Tunisia
1944 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
1945 Jersey liberated from Nazis
1945 Victory celebration at Red Square
1960 US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
1962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
1965 Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1974 House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1979 US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
1980 A Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
1989 VP Dan Quayle says at a College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind"
