blue water massey
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Apr. 24
1704 1st regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published
1800 The United States Library of Congress is established with President John Adams
1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain to Jacob Evert & George Dulty
1863 Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham MS (Grierson's Raid)
1865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (San Francisco)
1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1885 Sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
1888 Eastman Kodak forms
1908 Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become the 1st to travel across the US by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32 days-5 hours-25 minutes
1913 The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened
1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1918 1st tank-to-tank combat, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs
1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
1928 Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
1944 RAF bombs Munich
1944 The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time California to Massachusetts
1969 US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1970 1st Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched
1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1981 IBM-PC computer introduced
1981 US ends grain embargo against USSR
1990 STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery
1704 1st regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published
1800 The United States Library of Congress is established with President John Adams
1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain to Jacob Evert & George Dulty
1863 Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham MS (Grierson's Raid)
1865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (San Francisco)
1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1885 Sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
1888 Eastman Kodak forms
1908 Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become the 1st to travel across the US by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32 days-5 hours-25 minutes
1913 The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened
1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1918 1st tank-to-tank combat, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs
1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
1928 Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
1944 RAF bombs Munich
1944 The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time California to Massachusetts
1969 US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1970 1st Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched
1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1981 IBM-PC computer introduced
1981 US ends grain embargo against USSR
1990 STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery