blue water massey
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Feb. 23
1778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge
1813 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA
1822 Boston is incorporated as a city
1836 Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
1847 Battle of Buena Vista, M?xico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
1861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
1870 Mississippi is re-admitted to US
1883 Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1886 Aluminum manufacturing process developed
1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
1904 Control of Panam? Canal Zone acquired by US for $10 million
1915 Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
1921 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA
1936 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake NY
1940 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood CA
1943 German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
1945 The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers
1945 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
1945 Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr
1954 1st mass inoculation for polio with Salk nnalert (Pittsburgh)
1967 US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1970 Guyana becomes a republic
1987 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
1991 Troops cross the Saudi border and into Iraq, beginning the ground phase of the war
1778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge
1813 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA
1822 Boston is incorporated as a city
1836 Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
1847 Battle of Buena Vista, M?xico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
1861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
1870 Mississippi is re-admitted to US
1883 Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1886 Aluminum manufacturing process developed
1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
1904 Control of Panam? Canal Zone acquired by US for $10 million
1915 Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
1921 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA
1936 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake NY
1940 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood CA
1943 German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
1945 The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers
1945 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
1945 Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr
1954 1st mass inoculation for polio with Salk nnalert (Pittsburgh)
1967 US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1970 Guyana becomes a republic
1987 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
1991 Troops cross the Saudi border and into Iraq, beginning the ground phase of the war