blue water massey
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June 10
1692 Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill
1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1760 NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1776 Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind
1801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
1809 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY
1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1848 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
1854 The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate
1861 Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops defeat a much larger Union force in VA
1864 Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops defeat Union force in MI
1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, ME
1935 Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous
1940 Italy declares war on France & Britain
1940 Norway surrenders to German forces
1942 Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich
1943 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law
1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1967 The Gateway Arch opens to the public
1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1984 US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
1985 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
1692 Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill
1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1760 NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1776 Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind
1801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
1809 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY
1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1848 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
1854 The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate
1861 Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops defeat a much larger Union force in VA
1864 Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops defeat Union force in MI
1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, ME
1935 Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous
1940 Italy declares war on France & Britain
1940 Norway surrenders to German forces
1942 Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich
1943 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law
1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1967 The Gateway Arch opens to the public
1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1984 US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
1985 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula