blue water massey
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Feb. 18
1791 Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March 1791, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state
1804 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens OH, chartered
1815 Treaty of peace with Great Britain proclaimed
1849 1st regular steamboat service to San Francisco CA: gold rush prospectors from east coast
1850 California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
1856 American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery AL
1865 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city
1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson NC
1865 Battle of Ft Moultrie SC occupied by Federals
1876 Direct telegraph link established between Britain & New Zealand
1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
1908 1st US postage stamps in coils issued
1915 Germany begins a blockade of England
1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
1930 US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1930 Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly and be milked in a fixed-wing aircraft
1932 Japan declares Manchuria Independent
1942 Japanese troop land on Bali
1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
1965 Gambia gains independence from Britain
1970 US President Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine"
1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Washington
1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2
1977 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-202
1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert
1984 Revised concordat between Italy & the Vatican signed
1791 Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March 1791, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state
1804 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens OH, chartered
1815 Treaty of peace with Great Britain proclaimed
1849 1st regular steamboat service to San Francisco CA: gold rush prospectors from east coast
1850 California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
1856 American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery AL
1865 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city
1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson NC
1865 Battle of Ft Moultrie SC occupied by Federals
1876 Direct telegraph link established between Britain & New Zealand
1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
1908 1st US postage stamps in coils issued
1915 Germany begins a blockade of England
1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
1930 US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1930 Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly and be milked in a fixed-wing aircraft
1932 Japan declares Manchuria Independent
1942 Japanese troop land on Bali
1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
1965 Gambia gains independence from Britain
1970 US President Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine"
1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Washington
1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2
1977 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-202
1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert
1984 Revised concordat between Italy & the Vatican signed