blue water massey
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May 4
1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris France)
1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England
1780 American Academy of Arts & Science founded
1861 At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
1862 Battle at Williamsburg VA
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville ends-Beaten Union army withdraws
1864 General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1865 Battle of Citronville AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
1865 Battle of Mobile AL
1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1904 The US begins construction of the Panama Canal
1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb & Germany
1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv
1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law
1925 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field IL)
1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1940 21 "not neutral" Nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1942 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
1945 German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam
1979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
1989 Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal
1989 US launches Magellan to Venus
1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris France)
1776 Rhode Island declares independence from England
1780 American Academy of Arts & Science founded
1861 At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
1862 Battle at Williamsburg VA
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville ends-Beaten Union army withdraws
1864 General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1864 Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1865 Battle of Citronville AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
1865 Battle of Mobile AL
1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1904 The US begins construction of the Panama Canal
1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb & Germany
1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
1917 Arabs sack Tel Aviv
1923 New York state revokes Prohibition law
1925 League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field IL)
1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1940 21 "not neutral" Nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1942 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
1945 German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam
1979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
1989 Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal
1989 US launches Magellan to Venus
