blue water massey
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1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1766 William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (Rutgers University) NJ
1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 Osage Treaty signed
1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America
1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa
1898 Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only municipal government being overthrown in US history
1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House
1918 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski
1928 Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan
1942 Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral Fran?ois Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa
1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1951 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
1958 The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution
1968 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1978 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1979 A Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history
1983 Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0
1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall
1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1766 William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (Rutgers University) NJ
1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 Osage Treaty signed
1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America
1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa
1898 Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only municipal government being overthrown in US history
1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House
1918 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski
1928 Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan
1942 Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral Fran?ois Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa
1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1951 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
1958 The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution
1968 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1978 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1979 A Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history
1983 Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0
1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall