blue water massey
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Oct. 21
1797 In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched
1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement
1879 Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1983 The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second
Birthdays:
1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize
Deaths:
1775 Peyton Randolph, American lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Continental Congress
Thought for the day:
" An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. "
1797 In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched
1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement
1879 Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1983 The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second
Birthdays:
1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize
Deaths:
1775 Peyton Randolph, American lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Continental Congress
Thought for the day:
" An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. "
