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1621 Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony 1691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service 1801 An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the US and Burr, VP by the US House of Representatives 1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle) 1819 US House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the 1st time 1864 "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic" (1st submarine to sink an enemy ship) 1865 Columbia SC burns down during the Civil War 1865 Battle of Charleston SC 1867 1st ship passes through Suez Canal 1870 Mississippi becomes 9th state re-admitted to US after Civil War 1878 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones 1911 1st amphibian flight to & from a ship, by Glenn Curtiss, San Diego 1913 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon) 1933 US Senate accept Blaine Act ending prohibition 1934 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College PA) 1940 British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway 1944 Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins 1944 US begins night bombing of Truk 1959 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg 1965 US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures 1966 French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit 1967 Kosmos 140 (Soyuz test) launches into Earth orbit 1972 President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China 1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market 1979 China invades Vietnam 1989 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
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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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