blue water massey
Well-known Member
June 26
1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
Birthdays:
1742 Arthur Middleton signer Declaration of Independence
1819 Abner Doubleday credited with inventing American baseball
1854 Sir Robert Laird Borden (C), 8th Canadian PM (1911-20)
1906 The first Grand Prix motor racing event held
Deaths:
1810 Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon
1947 R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada
Thought for the day :
" Statistics are often used as a drunk uses a light pole: For support rather than illumination. "
1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
Birthdays:
1742 Arthur Middleton signer Declaration of Independence
1819 Abner Doubleday credited with inventing American baseball
1854 Sir Robert Laird Borden (C), 8th Canadian PM (1911-20)
1906 The first Grand Prix motor racing event held
Deaths:
1810 Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon
1947 R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada
Thought for the day :
" Statistics are often used as a drunk uses a light pole: For support rather than illumination. "