blue water massey
Well-known Member
Nov. 20
1789 New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights
1820 An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
1888 William Bundy patents the timecard clock
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation
1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released
Birthdays:
1602 Otto von Guericke inventor (air pump)
1726 Oliver Wolcott (Ct-Gov), signed Declaration of Independence
1841 Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada
Deaths:
1910 Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwrigh
Thought for the day:
?There is never enough time in a day to do all that needs done, to think about all that needs pondered, or to spend on the ones we love.
Don?t waste time on what could have been.
Have the courage to express your love, the commitment to make a change, and the strength to stay positive.?
1789 New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights
1820 An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
1888 William Bundy patents the timecard clock
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation
1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released
Birthdays:
1602 Otto von Guericke inventor (air pump)
1726 Oliver Wolcott (Ct-Gov), signed Declaration of Independence
1841 Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada
Deaths:
1910 Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwrigh
Thought for the day:
?There is never enough time in a day to do all that needs done, to think about all that needs pondered, or to spend on the ones we love.
Don?t waste time on what could have been.
Have the courage to express your love, the commitment to make a change, and the strength to stay positive.?
