blue water massey
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Feb. 25
1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1?)
1791 1st Bank of US chartered
1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
1799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
1859 First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
1862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln
1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act
1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
1879 Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1908 1st tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1? per gallon)
1930 Check photographing device patented
1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
1939 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan
1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1988 South Korea adopts constitution
1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by SCUD missile
1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1?)
1791 1st Bank of US chartered
1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
1799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
1859 First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
1862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln
1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act
1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
1879 Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1908 1st tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1? per gallon)
1930 Check photographing device patented
1933 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
1939 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
1944 US 1st Army completes invasion plan
1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1988 South Korea adopts constitution
1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by SCUD missile