blue water massey
Well-known Member
Jan. 11
1569 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn at St Paul's Cathedral
1785 Continental Congress convenes in New York City NY
1803 Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy Louisiana
1805 Michigan Territory is created
1813 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
1861 Alabama becomes 4th state to secede
1863 Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras
1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Fort Hindman AR
1863 CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas
1865 Battle of Beverly WV
1873 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created
1913 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York City NY)
1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu
1917 The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage
1922 Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu HI to Oakland CA (non-stop, of course)
1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
1943 US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
1946 People's Republic of Albania established
1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles
1964 US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
1973 Trial of the Watergate burglars begins in Washington DC
1975 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1978 Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
1984 STS 41-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
1569 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn at St Paul's Cathedral
1785 Continental Congress convenes in New York City NY
1803 Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy Louisiana
1805 Michigan Territory is created
1813 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
1861 Alabama becomes 4th state to secede
1863 Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras
1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Fort Hindman AR
1863 CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas
1865 Battle of Beverly WV
1873 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created
1913 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York City NY)
1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu
1917 The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage
1922 Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada)
1935 Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu HI to Oakland CA (non-stop, of course)
1942 Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
1943 US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China
1946 People's Republic of Albania established
1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles
1964 US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
1973 Trial of the Watergate burglars begins in Washington DC
1975 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1978 Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 & Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)
1984 STS 41-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq