blue water massey
Well-known Member
Feb. 24
1803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury vs Madison)
1836 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at the Alamo, lasts 13 days
1839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
1863 Arizona Territory created
1863 Forrest's raid on Brentwood TN
1864 Battle of Tunnel Hill GA (Buzzard's Roost)
1868 House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1923 Mass arrests in US of Mafia
1925 Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington NY
1941 Anti Nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
1942 The Battle of Los Angeles: A false alarm led to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasted into the early hours of February 25
1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1944 Merrill's Marauders: begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma
1945 Manila freed from Japanese
1945 Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
1968 US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars fly-by
1977 President Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford TX
1984 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
1986 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus fly-by
1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
1803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury vs Madison)
1836 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at the Alamo, lasts 13 days
1839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
1863 Arizona Territory created
1863 Forrest's raid on Brentwood TN
1864 Battle of Tunnel Hill GA (Buzzard's Roost)
1868 House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1923 Mass arrests in US of Mafia
1925 Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington NY
1941 Anti Nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
1942 The Battle of Los Angeles: A false alarm led to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasted into the early hours of February 25
1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1944 Merrill's Marauders: begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma
1945 Manila freed from Japanese
1945 Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
1968 US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars fly-by
1977 President Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford TX
1984 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
1986 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus fly-by
1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
