blue water massey
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Nov. 14
1666 Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1889 Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days
1910 Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher
1967 American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems
Birthdays:
1765 Robert Fulton built 1st commercial steamboat
1863 Leo Baekeland Belgian-American chemist and engineer (Bakelite)
Deaths:
1915 Booker T. Washington, American educator, essayist and historian
Thought for the day:
?You have made some mistakes, and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.?
1666 Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1889 Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days
1910 Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher
1967 American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems
Birthdays:
1765 Robert Fulton built 1st commercial steamboat
1863 Leo Baekeland Belgian-American chemist and engineer (Bakelite)
Deaths:
1915 Booker T. Washington, American educator, essayist and historian
Thought for the day:
?You have made some mistakes, and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.?
