blue water massey
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June 2
1763 Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan
1774 The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings
1797 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
1835 P.T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1855 The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, (Maine)
1857 James Gibbs, Va., patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of the Confederate armies of E VA & NC
1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
1865 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Dept
1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph
1910 1st roundtrip flight over the English Channel (C.S. Rolls, England)
1924 US citizenship granted to all American Indians
1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
1969 Australian carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, (S Vietnam)
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
1990 The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio
1763 Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan
1774 The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings
1797 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
1835 P.T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1855 The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, (Maine)
1857 James Gibbs, Va., patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of the Confederate armies of E VA & NC
1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
1865 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders the Trans-Mississippi Dept
1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph
1910 1st roundtrip flight over the English Channel (C.S. Rolls, England)
1924 US citizenship granted to all American Indians
1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
1969 Australian carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, (S Vietnam)
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
1990 The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio