blue water massey
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Nov. 24
1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers
1874 Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
1903 Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter, sold his patent to the Delco Company, Charles Kettering, a Delco engineer who joined GM, did some tinkering with Coleman?s design and received his own patent for an improved version
1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator
1971 During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found
Birthdays:
1784 Zachary Taylor American general and politician, 12th President of USA
Deaths:
1962 James J Kilroy tank inspector (Kilroy was here)
Thought for the day:
" Toil is most pleasant when done. "
1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers
1874 Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
1903 Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter, sold his patent to the Delco Company, Charles Kettering, a Delco engineer who joined GM, did some tinkering with Coleman?s design and received his own patent for an improved version
1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator
1971 During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found
Birthdays:
1784 Zachary Taylor American general and politician, 12th President of USA
Deaths:
1962 James J Kilroy tank inspector (Kilroy was here)
Thought for the day:
" Toil is most pleasant when done. "
