blue water massey
Well-known Member
Sept. 7
1776 According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist)
1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
1896 1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI
1907 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City
1927 The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth
Birthdays:
1533 Queen Elizabeth I England, daughter of Henry VIII
1875 Edward Francis Hutton, American businessman and financier, co-founded E. F. Hutton & Co
1908 Dr Michael E DeBakey artificial heart pioneer
Deaths:
1909 Eug?ne Lefebvre dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft
Thought for the day:
" One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true. "
1776 According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist)
1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
1896 1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI
1907 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City
1927 The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth
Birthdays:
1533 Queen Elizabeth I England, daughter of Henry VIII
1875 Edward Francis Hutton, American businessman and financier, co-founded E. F. Hutton & Co
1908 Dr Michael E DeBakey artificial heart pioneer
Deaths:
1909 Eug?ne Lefebvre dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft
Thought for the day:
" One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true. "