blue water massey
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Dec. 10
1672 New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston
1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity
1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money
1799 Metric system established in France
1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state
1861 The Confederate States of America accept Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy
1864 General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
1868 The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London
1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam
1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize 1st American to win one
1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
1923 Polish government of Grabski, forms
1931 Manuel Aza?a becomes premier/Niceto Zamora President of Spain
1936 King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel-General von Arnim
1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
1944 German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1952 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd President of Israel
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1986 France performs nuclear test
1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
1672 New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston
1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity
1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money
1799 Metric system established in France
1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state
1861 The Confederate States of America accept Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy
1864 General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
1868 The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London
1898 Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam
1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize 1st American to win one
1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
1923 Polish government of Grabski, forms
1931 Manuel Aza?a becomes premier/Niceto Zamora President of Spain
1936 King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel-General von Arnim
1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
1944 German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1952 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd President of Israel
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1986 France performs nuclear test
1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
