blue water massey
Well-known Member
Apr. 26
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry VA
1777 S Ludington, 16, rides 40 miles to alert US forces to the approach of the British
1865 Battle of Durham Station NC (Greensboro)
1865 Battle of Fort Tobacco VA
1865 Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham NC
1865 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth Va
1915 Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1933 The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established
1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1942 Colliery explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1944 Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete
1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio nnalert begins
1956 SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey
1959 Cuba invades Panam?
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
1962 Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite)
1962 Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
1964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania
1971 San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1978 NASA launches space vehicle S-201
1978 France sends troops to Chad
1980 Iran begins scattering US hostages from the US Embassy
1981 Large US bank robbery, more than $33 million stolen (Tucson AZ)
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on South Georgia near Falkland Island
1984 President Ronald Reagan visits China
1986 A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union
1993 STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry VA
1777 S Ludington, 16, rides 40 miles to alert US forces to the approach of the British
1865 Battle of Durham Station NC (Greensboro)
1865 Battle of Fort Tobacco VA
1865 Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham NC
1865 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth Va
1915 Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1933 The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established
1937 German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1942 Colliery explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1944 Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete
1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio nnalert begins
1956 SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey
1959 Cuba invades Panam?
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
1962 Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite)
1962 Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
1964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania
1971 San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1978 NASA launches space vehicle S-201
1978 France sends troops to Chad
1980 Iran begins scattering US hostages from the US Embassy
1981 Large US bank robbery, more than $33 million stolen (Tucson AZ)
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on South Georgia near Falkland Island
1984 President Ronald Reagan visits China
1986 A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union
1993 STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit