blue water massey
Well-known Member
May 3
1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia; founded by John Morgan
1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city
1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts (Canterbury and Whitstable Railway)
1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1851 Most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire
1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1861 General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
1863 Battle of Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights)
1863 Battle of Salem Church VA
1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria LA: Confederate assault
1867 The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island
1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York-San Diego) completed
1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-months after leaving), stay until 1933
1941 German air raid on Liverpool
1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1943 US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
1945 British troop join in Rangoon
1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea
1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy
1949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1952 Lt Colonels J. Fletcher and W. Benedict of the US land a plane at the North Pole
1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1994 US space probe Clementine launched
1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia; founded by John Morgan
1802 Washington DC incorporates as a city
1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts (Canterbury and Whitstable Railway)
1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1851 Most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire
1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1861 General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
1863 Battle of Fredricksburg VA (Marye's Heights)
1863 Battle of Salem Church VA
1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria LA: Confederate assault
1867 The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island
1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (New York-San Diego) completed
1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-months after leaving), stay until 1933
1941 German air raid on Liverpool
1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1943 US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
1945 British troop join in Rangoon
1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea
1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy
1949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1952 Lt Colonels J. Fletcher and W. Benedict of the US land a plane at the North Pole
1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1994 US space probe Clementine launched
