blue water massey
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July 15
1869 Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy
1870 Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories
1922 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo
1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around the world
Birthdays:
1779 Clement Clarke Moore US, author ('Twas the Night Before Xmas)
Deaths:
1940 Robert Wadlow world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32
Thought for the day:
" It is better to live rich than to die rich. "
1869 Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy
1870 Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories
1922 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo
1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around the world
Birthdays:
1779 Clement Clarke Moore US, author ('Twas the Night Before Xmas)
Deaths:
1940 Robert Wadlow world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32
Thought for the day:
" It is better to live rich than to die rich. "