blue water massey
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Mar. 21
1788 A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins
1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1863 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1871 Journalist Henry Stanley begins his trek to find the explorer David Livingstone
1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia
1918 Germany launches Somme offensive
1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for first solo trans-Atlantic flight
1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
1944 General Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
1945 During WWII Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1945 British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma
1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball, 1st rock & roll concert ever (Cleveland Oh)
1958 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
1963 Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closed
1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1991 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
1999 B Piccard and B Jones become the 1st to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon
1788 A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins
1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1863 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1871 Journalist Henry Stanley begins his trek to find the explorer David Livingstone
1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia
1918 Germany launches Somme offensive
1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for first solo trans-Atlantic flight
1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
1944 General Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
1945 During WWII Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1945 British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma
1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball, 1st rock & roll concert ever (Cleveland Oh)
1958 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
1963 Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closed
1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1991 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
1999 B Piccard and B Jones become the 1st to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon