blue water massey
Well-known Member
Feb. 14
1778 "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
1779 The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia
1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington PA
1848 James K Polk became 1st President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
1859 Oregon admitted as 33rd state
1862 Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
1876 A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents
1883 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
1889 1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east
1903 US Dept of Commerce & Labor established
1912 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton CT
1912 Arizona becomes 48th state
1919 United Parcel Service forms
1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago IL, 7 gangsters killed
1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
1943 Soviets recapture Rostov
1944 British submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian submarine in the Strait of Malacca
1944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1963 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1978 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
1980 US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
1989 World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1778 "Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
1779 The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia
1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington PA
1848 James K Polk became 1st President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
1859 Oregon admitted as 33rd state
1862 Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
1876 A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents
1883 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
1889 1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east
1903 US Dept of Commerce & Labor established
1912 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton CT
1912 Arizona becomes 48th state
1919 United Parcel Service forms
1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago IL, 7 gangsters killed
1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
1943 Soviets recapture Rostov
1944 British submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian submarine in the Strait of Malacca
1944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1963 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1978 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
1980 US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
1989 World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system