blue water massey
Well-known Member
Mar. 17
0461 St Patrick patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)
1753 1st official St Patrick's Day
1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1756 St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern
1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia
1780 G Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday: as an act of solidarity with the Irish
1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester MA
1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia
1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay CA
1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, New York NY (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1932 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter
1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
1943 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
0461 St Patrick patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)
1753 1st official St Patrick's Day
1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1756 St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern
1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia
1780 G Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday: as an act of solidarity with the Irish
1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester MA
1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia
1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay CA
1898 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, New York NY (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1932 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter
1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
1943 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit