blue water massey
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June 4
1783 Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
1812 Following Louisiana's admittance as a state, the Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory
1862 Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow, Tenn
1876 An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City
1896 Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
1912 Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
1916 Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian
1919 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
1919 US marines invade Costa Rica
1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
1940 German forces enter Paris
1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
1944 1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas-U 505
1944 5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies
1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1970 Tonga gains independence from Britain
1989 Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army
1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
1783 Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
1812 Following Louisiana's admittance as a state, the Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory
1862 Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow, Tenn
1876 An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City
1896 Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
1912 Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
1916 Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian
1919 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
1919 US marines invade Costa Rica
1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
1940 German forces enter Paris
1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
1944 1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas-U 505
1944 5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies
1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1970 Tonga gains independence from Britain
1989 Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army
1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy