This Day in History Jan. 7

Jan. 7

1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
1789 1st national (Presidential) election in US
1830 Baltimore & Ohio R.R. 1st carrying revenue traffic & US Railroad Station (Baltimore MD)
1861 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine
1862 Battle of Manassas Junction VA
1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney WV
1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen
1894 William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film
1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st international radio distress signal
1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco
1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panam? Canal
1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London
1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts
1944 Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59
1953 President Truman announces development of the hydrogen bomb
1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
1960 The Polaris missile is test launched
1968 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon
1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala
1985 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1989 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
1992 AT&T releases video-telephone

1862 was the second battle of Manassas. The first was called First Manassas by the south and Bull Run by the north. First Manassas was where Thomas J Jackson got the name Stonewall Jackson. Despite the Southern victory everyone on both sides knew there was going to be a lot of bloodshed ahead.

and just think all that fighting in Va. for years because Va. refused to send 50000 troops to invade South Carolina .
sometimes you should look more carefully at what your getting into before you sign the dotted line to get in .