blue water massey
Well-known Member
Mar. 31
1774 Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Ma closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act
1831 Qu?bec & Montr?al incorporated
1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on the Mississippi River
1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House)
1865 General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
1880 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash IN)
1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)
1909 Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins
1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements
1917 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands
1918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1942 Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession
1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam
1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
1949 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
1951 US tanks exceed 38? of latitude in Korea
1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau
1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs CO, established
1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division
1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years
1965 US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
1968 LBJ announces he will not seek re-election
1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
1992 USS Missouri, the last active US Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, Ca
1774 Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Ma closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act
1831 Qu?bec & Montr?al incorporated
1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on the Mississippi River
1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House)
1865 General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
1880 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash IN)
1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)
1909 Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins
1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements
1917 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands
1918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1942 Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession
1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam
1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
1949 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
1951 US tanks exceed 38? of latitude in Korea
1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau
1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs CO, established
1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division
1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years
1965 US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
1968 LBJ announces he will not seek re-election
1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
1992 USS Missouri, the last active US Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, Ca