blue water massey
Well-known Member
Mar. 15
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook
1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, South Carolina (British suffer heavy losses)
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin TN
1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria LA
1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York NY)
1906 Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1916 Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 US troops over the US?Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa
1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1934 US Information Service opens
1937 1st blood bank is established (Chicago IL)
1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence
1940 G?ring says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia
1955 US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
1965 LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1992 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook
1781 Battle of Guilford Court House, South Carolina (British suffer heavy losses)
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state
1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin TN
1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria LA
1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York NY)
1906 Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1916 Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 US troops over the US?Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa
1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1934 US Information Service opens
1937 1st blood bank is established (Chicago IL)
1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independence
1940 G?ring says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov
1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia
1955 US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
1965 LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1992 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
