blue water massey
Well-known Member
Dec. 3
1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia
1621 Galileo perfects the telescope
1818 Illinois admitted as 21st US state
1835 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (Rhode Island)
1863 Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville TN
1864 Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia
1866 Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies
1910 Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show
1930 Otto Ender forms Austrian government
1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale
1934 Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
1938 AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
1943 Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
1944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece
1944 Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
1944 US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg H?rtgenwald
1946 US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
1948 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
1956 England & France pull troops out of Egypt
1958 Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
1959 State of emergency on Cyprus ends
1965 USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
1971 President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
1984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
1985 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
1989 George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta
1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia
1621 Galileo perfects the telescope
1818 Illinois admitted as 21st US state
1835 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (Rhode Island)
1863 Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville TN
1864 Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia
1866 Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies
1910 Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show
1930 Otto Ender forms Austrian government
1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale
1934 Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
1938 AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
1943 Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
1944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece
1944 Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
1944 US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg H?rtgenwald
1946 US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
1948 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
1956 England & France pull troops out of Egypt
1958 Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
1959 State of emergency on Cyprus ends
1965 USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
1971 President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
1984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
1985 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
1989 George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta
