blue water massey
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Feb. 20
1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania)
1792 US postal service created; postage 6?-12??, depending on distance
1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
1861 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
1864 Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida
1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
1873 University of California gets its 1st Medical School, in San Francisco
1877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY
1901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor
1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
1937 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica CA
1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
1942 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (M?xico)
1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
1944 US takes Eniwetok Island
1944 "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers
1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA
1949 1st International Pancake Race held (abundant KS)
1959 The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture jet fighters in Canada is cancelled
1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
1965 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania)
1792 US postal service created; postage 6?-12??, depending on distance
1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
1861 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
1864 Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida
1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
1873 University of California gets its 1st Medical School, in San Francisco
1877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY
1901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor
1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
1937 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica CA
1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
1942 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (M?xico)
1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
1944 US takes Eniwetok Island
1944 "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers
1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA
1949 1st International Pancake Race held (abundant KS)
1959 The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture jet fighters in Canada is cancelled
1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
1965 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
