blue water massey
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Oct. 4
1535 The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations
by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale
1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1883 First run of the Orient Express
1957 Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth
1983 Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving
Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada
Birthdays:
1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the U.S.
1892 Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and wrote numerous reports and memoranda dealing with
aerofoil and propeller theory
1903 John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff?Berry computer
Deaths:
1821 John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge
1946 Barney Oldfield, American race car driver
Thought for the day:
?A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.?
1535 The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations
by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale
1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1883 First run of the Orient Express
1957 Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth
1983 Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving
Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada
Birthdays:
1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the U.S.
1892 Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and wrote numerous reports and memoranda dealing with
aerofoil and propeller theory
1903 John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff?Berry computer
Deaths:
1821 John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge
1946 Barney Oldfield, American race car driver
Thought for the day:
?A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.?
