blue water massey
Well-known Member
Dec. 19
1686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
1871 Albert L Jones (New York NY), patents corrugated paper
1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England
1972 Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth
1998 President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives
Birthdays:
1849 Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and financier, built world's largest coke & steel operation
1901 Rudolf Hell, German engineer, invented the Hellschreiber (a facsimile-based teleprinter)
Deaths:
1813 James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University
1959 Walter Williams claimed to be last survivor of Civil War
1997 Masaru Ibuka, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony
Thought for the day:
" To save one life is better than to build a seven story pagoda. "
1686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
1871 Albert L Jones (New York NY), patents corrugated paper
1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England
1972 Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth
1998 President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives
Birthdays:
1849 Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and financier, built world's largest coke & steel operation
1901 Rudolf Hell, German engineer, invented the Hellschreiber (a facsimile-based teleprinter)
Deaths:
1813 James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University
1959 Walter Williams claimed to be last survivor of Civil War
1997 Masaru Ibuka, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony
Thought for the day:
" To save one life is better than to build a seven story pagoda. "