blue water massey
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Apr. 13
1777 American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, NJ
1796 1st elephant arrives in US from Bengal India
1796 Battle at Millesimo Italy Napoleon beats Austrians
1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento CA
1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates
1863 Battle of Irish Bend LA (Fort Bisland)
1863 Hospital for Ruptured & Crippled in New York is 1st orthopedic hospital
1865 Battle of Raleigh NC
1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1902 JC Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer WY
1904 Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
1941 Heavy German assault on Tobruk
1941 Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect
1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1945 Allies occupy Wien (Vienna)
1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen Netherlands from Nazi's
1945 US marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
1953 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra
1959 USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
1960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
1964 New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a then record 565 sheep in 1 work day
1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes
1972 The Battle of An Lộc begins (Vietnam)
1974 Western Union launches 1st US commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1
1976 Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
1992 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
1777 American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, NJ
1796 1st elephant arrives in US from Bengal India
1796 Battle at Millesimo Italy Napoleon beats Austrians
1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento CA
1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates
1863 Battle of Irish Bend LA (Fort Bisland)
1863 Hospital for Ruptured & Crippled in New York is 1st orthopedic hospital
1865 Battle of Raleigh NC
1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1902 JC Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer WY
1904 Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
1941 Heavy German assault on Tobruk
1941 Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect
1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1945 Allies occupy Wien (Vienna)
1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen Netherlands from Nazi's
1945 US marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
1953 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra
1959 USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
1960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
1964 New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a then record 565 sheep in 1 work day
1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes
1972 The Battle of An Lộc begins (Vietnam)
1974 Western Union launches 1st US commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1
1976 Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
1992 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood