blue water massey
Well-known Member
Aug. 17
1585 A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in
the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day NC
1807 Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York, for Albany, New York, on the
Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world
1896 Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the
UK's first pedestrian motoring fatality
1940 FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
Birthdays:
1786 Davy Crockett US, frontiersman/adventurer/politician
1894 William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, English businessman, founded Rootes Group
Thought for the day:
" We have nothing to fear but fear itself. "
1585 A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in
the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day NC
1807 Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York, for Albany, New York, on the
Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world
1896 Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the
UK's first pedestrian motoring fatality
1940 FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
Birthdays:
1786 Davy Crockett US, frontiersman/adventurer/politician
1894 William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, English businessman, founded Rootes Group
Thought for the day:
" We have nothing to fear but fear itself. "