blue water massey
Well-known Member
Dec. 5
1492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic
1766 London auctioneers Christie's hold their 1st sale
1846 C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
1848 President Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms California gold discovery
1861 Gatling gun patented
1862 Battle of Coffeeville MS
1876 Daniel Stillson (Massachusetts) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
1879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented
1887 Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo
1893 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges
1929 1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York NY)
1932 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa
1933 21st Amendment ratified, only amendment adopted to repeal an earlier amendment [the 18th)
1935 1st commercial hydroponics operation established (Montebello CA)
1941 Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army
1941 US aircraft carrier Lexington/5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor
1943 Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow
1944 German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht
1945 Flight 19" The Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
1946 President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order #9808
1952 London smog of 1952 - worst smog in London ever
1957 NYC becomes 1st city to legislate housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
1978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
1978 European Union establishes EMS, European Monetary System
1980 Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens
1988 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
1989 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
1993 Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
1492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic
1766 London auctioneers Christie's hold their 1st sale
1846 C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
1848 President Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms California gold discovery
1861 Gatling gun patented
1862 Battle of Coffeeville MS
1876 Daniel Stillson (Massachusetts) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
1879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented
1887 Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo
1893 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges
1929 1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York NY)
1932 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa
1933 21st Amendment ratified, only amendment adopted to repeal an earlier amendment [the 18th)
1935 1st commercial hydroponics operation established (Montebello CA)
1941 Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army
1941 US aircraft carrier Lexington/5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor
1943 Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow
1944 German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht
1945 Flight 19" The Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
1946 President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order #9808
1952 London smog of 1952 - worst smog in London ever
1957 NYC becomes 1st city to legislate housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
1978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
1978 European Union establishes EMS, European Monetary System
1980 Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens
1988 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
1989 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
1993 Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
