blue water massey
Well-known Member
May 6
1642 Ville Marie (Montr?al) forms
1833 John Deere makes 1st steel plow
1851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
1851 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock
1853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk CT)
1861 Arkansas & Tennessee become 9th & 10th states to secede from US
1861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops
1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA
1864 Battle of Wilderness-General Longstreet seriously injured
1864 General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta GA
1889 Universal Exposition opens in Paris France; Eiffel Tower completed
1915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
1916 Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies
1929 New York to San Fransisco footrace begins
1935 The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk
1937 The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed at Lakehurst, NJ
1942 Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
1945 General J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
1954 Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
1955 West Germany joins NATO
1959 Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
1962 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 81.8 kph over 200 meters
1981 US expels Libyan diplomats
1994 Chunnel linking England & France officially opens
1642 Ville Marie (Montr?al) forms
1833 John Deere makes 1st steel plow
1851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
1851 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock
1853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk CT)
1861 Arkansas & Tennessee become 9th & 10th states to secede from US
1861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops
1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction VA
1864 Battle of Wilderness-General Longstreet seriously injured
1864 General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta GA
1889 Universal Exposition opens in Paris France; Eiffel Tower completed
1915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
1916 Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies
1929 New York to San Fransisco footrace begins
1935 The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk
1937 The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed at Lakehurst, NJ
1942 Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
1945 General J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
1954 Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
1955 West Germany joins NATO
1959 Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
1962 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 81.8 kph over 200 meters
1981 US expels Libyan diplomats
1994 Chunnel linking England & France officially opens
