blue water massey
Well-known Member
Apr. 20
1775 British begin siege of Boston
1809 Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1836 Territory of Wisconsin created
1861 Battle of Norfolk VA
1861 Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
1898 US Assay Office in Deadwood SD opens
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1918 The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, before his death the following day
1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
1926 Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film
1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia PA
1941 100 German bombers attack Athens
1942 German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beach
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
1945 US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1961 Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 63,250 meters
1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during the Vietnam War
1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
1972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a $165 billion bail-out for Social Security
1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
1775 British begin siege of Boston
1809 Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1836 Territory of Wisconsin created
1861 Battle of Norfolk VA
1861 Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
1898 US Assay Office in Deadwood SD opens
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1918 The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, before his death the following day
1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
1926 Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film
1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia PA
1941 100 German bombers attack Athens
1942 German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beach
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
1945 US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1961 Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 63,250 meters
1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during the Vietnam War
1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
1972 Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a $165 billion bail-out for Social Security
1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
