blue water massey
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Nov. 10
1766 The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University)
1775 The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas
1871 Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
1951 With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States
1975 The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior
Birthdays:
1810 George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet
1844 Sir John SD Thompson (C), Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Canada
Thought for the day:
" A wise man can see more from a the bottom of a well than a fool can see from a mountaintop. "
1766 The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University)
1775 The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas
1871 Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
1951 With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States
1975 The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior
Birthdays:
1810 George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet
1844 Sir John SD Thompson (C), Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Canada
Thought for the day:
" A wise man can see more from a the bottom of a well than a fool can see from a mountaintop. "
