blue water massey
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May 14
1607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown VA
1767 British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution
1796 Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation
1804 Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for the Pacific Coast
1853 Gail Borden patents his process for condensed milk
1863 Battle of Jackson MS
1864 Battle of Reseca GA -Atlanta- (2nd day)
1878 Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
1894 Fire in the Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
1897 Stars and Stripes Forever is first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Pa
1908 1st passenger flight in an airplane
1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
1940 German breakthrough at Sedan
1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam, Netherlands surrender to Germany
1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded
1943 A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland
1944 91 German bombers harass Bristol
1944 British troops occupy Kohima
1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
1945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1960 USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
1969 Last Chevrolet Corvair built
1973 Skylab launched, the 1st Space Station
1975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
1981 NASA launches space vehicle S-192
1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
1607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown VA
1767 British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution
1796 Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation
1804 Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for the Pacific Coast
1853 Gail Borden patents his process for condensed milk
1863 Battle of Jackson MS
1864 Battle of Reseca GA -Atlanta- (2nd day)
1878 Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
1894 Fire in the Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
1897 Stars and Stripes Forever is first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Pa
1908 1st passenger flight in an airplane
1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
1940 German breakthrough at Sedan
1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam, Netherlands surrender to Germany
1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded
1943 A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland
1944 91 German bombers harass Bristol
1944 British troops occupy Kohima
1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
1945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1960 USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
1969 Last Chevrolet Corvair built
1973 Skylab launched, the 1st Space Station
1975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
1981 NASA launches space vehicle S-192
1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
