blue water massey
Well-known Member
Aug. 9
1831 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph
1945 Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar
1974 As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office
Birthdays:
1897 Ralph Wyckoff American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
1927 Marvin Minsky Artifical intelligence computer scientist
1930 Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes
Deaths:
1932 ? John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal
1969 Sharon Tate actress
Thought for the day:
" Someone is speaking well of you. "
1831 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph
1945 Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar
1974 As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office
Birthdays:
1897 Ralph Wyckoff American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
1927 Marvin Minsky Artifical intelligence computer scientist
1930 Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes
Deaths:
1932 ? John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal
1969 Sharon Tate actress
Thought for the day:
" Someone is speaking well of you. "