blue water massey
Well-known Member
June 23
1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
1931 ? Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane
2013 Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope
Birthdays
1846 George Sax inventor (the saxophone)
1848 Antoine Joseph Sax inventor (the saxophone)
1912 Alan Turing mathematician pioneer in computer theory (Turing Machine)
Deaths
2006 Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Spelling Television
2011 Peter Falk, American actor
Thought for the day
" There is always someone worse off than yourself. "
1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
1931 ? Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane
2013 Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope
Birthdays
1846 George Sax inventor (the saxophone)
1848 Antoine Joseph Sax inventor (the saxophone)
1912 Alan Turing mathematician pioneer in computer theory (Turing Machine)
Deaths
2006 Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer, and screenwriter, founded Spelling Television
2011 Peter Falk, American actor
Thought for the day
" There is always someone worse off than yourself. "