blue water massey
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Jan. 8
1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co)
1790 George Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union" address
1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended (12/24/1814 but nobody knew)
1835 The United States national debt is zero for the only time
1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes, New Jersey
1845 The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn, New York City is completed
1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington
1863 American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1877 Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory
1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine (1st Computer)
1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
1918 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WWI
1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
1940 Britain's 1st WWII rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)
1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
1965 Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower
1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established
1973 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris
1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed (again! maybe?)
1979 The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland
1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1992 US President George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co)
1790 George Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union" address
1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended (12/24/1814 but nobody knew)
1835 The United States national debt is zero for the only time
1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes, New Jersey
1845 The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn, New York City is completed
1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington
1863 American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1877 Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory
1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine (1st Computer)
1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
1918 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WWI
1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
1940 Britain's 1st WWII rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)
1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
1965 Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower
1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established
1973 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris
1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed (again! maybe?)
1979 The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland
1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1992 US President George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap