blue water massey
Well-known Member
Jan. 19
1764 John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel
1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
1825 Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)
1861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede
1861 MS troops take Fort Massachusetts and Ship Island
1862 Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads)
1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson NC
1910 Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty
1915 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain
1915 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
1917 Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes UK
1920 The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations
1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established
1937 Millionaire Howard Hughes sets US transcontinental air record (7h28m25s)
1938 GM began mass production of diesel engines
1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 seconds
1941 British offensive in Eritrea
1941 British troops occupy Kassalaf Sudan
1942 Japanese forces invade Burma
1942 Titus Brandsma arrested by Germans for speaking out against Nazism as a "lie" and "pagan"
1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily
1946 General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal
1950 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane
1955 1st Presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)
1960 Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact
1977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)
1977 Snow falls in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen
1981 US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
1764 John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel
1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
1825 Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)
1861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede
1861 MS troops take Fort Massachusetts and Ship Island
1862 Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads)
1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson NC
1910 Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty
1915 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain
1915 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude
1917 Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes UK
1920 The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations
1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established
1937 Millionaire Howard Hughes sets US transcontinental air record (7h28m25s)
1938 GM began mass production of diesel engines
1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 seconds
1941 British offensive in Eritrea
1941 British troops occupy Kassalaf Sudan
1942 Japanese forces invade Burma
1942 Titus Brandsma arrested by Germans for speaking out against Nazism as a "lie" and "pagan"
1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily
1946 General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal
1950 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane
1955 1st Presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower)
1960 Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact
1977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)
1977 Snow falls in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen
1981 US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages
1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
