blue water massey
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Apr. 17
1704 1st successful US newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
1824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54? 40' N
1853 US Marine Hospital at Presidio (San Francisco) established
1861 Virginia become 8th state to secede
1861 Indianola TX-"Star of West" taken by Confederacy
1863 Grierson's Raid La Grange TN to Baton Rouge LA
1864 Battle of Plymouth NC
1864 Bread revolt in Savannah GA
1864 Grant suspends prisoner-of-war exchanges
1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination
1941 British troop land in Iraq
1941 Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
1942 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg
1943 Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul
1943 SS-Lieutenant-General J?rgen Stoop arrives in Warsaw
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Netherlands
1945 Mussolini flees from Sal? to Milan
1945 US troops lands in Mindanao
1946 Last French troops leave Syria
1949 At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth
1961 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro
1964 Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)
1967 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20
1970 Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
1975 Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's 5-year war
1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1986 335 Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends
1986 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip
1704 1st successful US newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
1824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54? 40' N
1853 US Marine Hospital at Presidio (San Francisco) established
1861 Virginia become 8th state to secede
1861 Indianola TX-"Star of West" taken by Confederacy
1863 Grierson's Raid La Grange TN to Baton Rouge LA
1864 Battle of Plymouth NC
1864 Bread revolt in Savannah GA
1864 Grant suspends prisoner-of-war exchanges
1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination
1941 British troop land in Iraq
1941 Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
1942 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg
1943 Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul
1943 SS-Lieutenant-General J?rgen Stoop arrives in Warsaw
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Netherlands
1945 Mussolini flees from Sal? to Milan
1945 US troops lands in Mindanao
1946 Last French troops leave Syria
1949 At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth
1961 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro
1964 Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)
1967 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20
1970 Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help
1975 Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's 5-year war
1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1986 335 Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends
1986 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip