blue water massey
Well-known Member
June 30
1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1859 Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1862 Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ
1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
1906 Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted
1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
1911 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1913 2nd Balkan War begins
1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1933 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
1934 "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1936 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemnde
1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service established
1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
1950 Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea
1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut
1971 Ohio becomes the 38th state to approve of lower the voting age to 18, thus ratifying the 26th admendment
1972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)
1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill
1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1859 Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1862 Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ
1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
1906 Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted
1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
1911 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1913 2nd Balkan War begins
1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1933 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
1934 "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1936 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemnde
1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service established
1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
1950 Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea
1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut
1971 Ohio becomes the 38th state to approve of lower the voting age to 18, thus ratifying the 26th admendment
1972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)
1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill
