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1659 1st known check (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey) 1741 Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine (2nd US Magazine) begins publishing 1804 Lieutenant Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor & burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" 1840 American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica 1852 Studebaker Brothers wagon company, is established (precursor to their auto co.) 1862 Ft Donelson captured by General Grant 1864 Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army 1878 Silver dollar became US legal tender 1881 The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa 1883 "Ladies Home Journal" begins publication 1894 British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast 1909 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (New York NY) 1913 President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico 1916 Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia 1923 Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun 1932 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree 1938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized 1940 British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway 1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery 1943 Red army conquers Kharkov 1943 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa 1945 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3 1945 American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines 1945 Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany 1946 1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport CT 1959 Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista 1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip 1961 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island VA 1961 US satellite Explorer 9 is launched 1978 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Nuffield Tractor - by Anthony West. The Nuffield tractor story started in early 1945. The British government still reeling from the effects of the war on the economy, approached the Nuffield organization to see if they would design and build an "ALL NEW" British built wheeled tractor, suitable for both British and world farming.
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