blue water massey
Well-known Member
May 24
1726 People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
1830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1844 Samual FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message)
1846 General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey in Mexican War
1861 Alexandria VA occupied by Federal troops
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction
1899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1916 US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1921 British Legion is formed
1930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1940 Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight
1940 German tanks reach Atrecht France
1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood
1943 Admiral D?nitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
1954 German airline Lufthansa forms
1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1975 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington DC)
1977 USSR President Podgorny resigns
1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminate
1726 People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
1830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1844 Samual FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message)
1846 General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey in Mexican War
1861 Alexandria VA occupied by Federal troops
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction
1899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1916 US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1921 British Legion is formed
1930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1940 Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight
1940 German tanks reach Atrecht France
1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood
1943 Admiral D?nitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
1954 German airline Lufthansa forms
1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1975 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington DC)
1977 USSR President Podgorny resigns
1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminate
