blue water massey
Well-known Member
Oct. 17
1814 Eight people die in the London Beer Flood
1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first form of movies)
1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland
1973 OPEC imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria
Birthdays:
1938 Robert "Evel" Knievel American motorcycle rider and stuntman
Deaths:
1887 Gustav Kirchoff discoverer of the laws of spectroscopy
Thought for the day:
?It?s a long, long road From which there is no return
While we?re on the way to there Why not share.?
1814 Eight people die in the London Beer Flood
1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first form of movies)
1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland
1973 OPEC imposes an oil embargo against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria
Birthdays:
1938 Robert "Evel" Knievel American motorcycle rider and stuntman
Deaths:
1887 Gustav Kirchoff discoverer of the laws of spectroscopy
Thought for the day:
?It?s a long, long road From which there is no return
While we?re on the way to there Why not share.?
