blue water massey
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June 12
1665 English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
1758 French and Indian War: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences
1775 British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock
1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
1792 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
1838 Territory of Iowa organized
1849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky
1864 Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions and moves south
1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
1918 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1920 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
1940 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux
1942 Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday
1944 American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan
1948 Eddie Arcaro becomes 1st jockey to win the triple crown twice
1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft
1987 U.S. Pres Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall
1665 English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
1758 French and Indian War: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences
1775 British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock
1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
1792 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
1838 Territory of Iowa organized
1849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky
1864 Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions and moves south
1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
1918 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1920 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
1940 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux
1942 Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday
1944 American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan
1948 Eddie Arcaro becomes 1st jockey to win the triple crown twice
1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft
1987 U.S. Pres Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall