blue water massey
Well-known Member
Feb. 12
1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
1762 English fleet occupies Martinique
1814 Battle of Ch?teau-Thierry
1814 Battle of La Victoria
1839 Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick leads to Aroostook
1840 Housatonic Railroad opens
1855 Michigan State University is established
1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK
1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem MA
1877 US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
1879 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
1908 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster
wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech
1925 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
1938 Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
1938 German troops entered Austria
1942 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa
1945 San Francisco selected for site of UN Conference
1946 Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats
1949 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
1954 Lyons's LEO produces a payroll report. The 1st use of a computer used in business
1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam
1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon GA
1963 Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis
1968 Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre
1979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
1762 English fleet occupies Martinique
1814 Battle of Ch?teau-Thierry
1814 Battle of La Victoria
1839 Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick leads to Aroostook
1840 Housatonic Railroad opens
1855 Michigan State University is established
1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK
1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem MA
1877 US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
1879 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
1908 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster
wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech
1925 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
1938 Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
1938 German troops entered Austria
1942 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa
1945 San Francisco selected for site of UN Conference
1946 Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats
1949 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
1954 Lyons's LEO produces a payroll report. The 1st use of a computer used in business
1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam
1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon GA
1963 Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis
1968 Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre
1979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
