blue water massey
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July 31
1498 On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad
1790 The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1964 Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover on the moon
Birthdays:
1803 John Ericsson US, invented screw propeller, built USS Monitor
Deaths:
1875 Andrew Johnson 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
Thought for the day:
" He who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn t been asleep. "
1498 On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad
1790 The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1964 Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover on the moon
Birthdays:
1803 John Ericsson US, invented screw propeller, built USS Monitor
Deaths:
1875 Andrew Johnson 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
Thought for the day:
" He who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn t been asleep. "
