blue water massey
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Nov. 1
1765 The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for
British military operations in North America
1800 John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion
(later renamed the White House)
1848 In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School
(which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens
1870 In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes
its first official meteorological forecast
1911 The first dropping of a bomb from an aircraft in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War
1957 The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time,
opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas
Birthdays:
1815 Crawford Williamson Long surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
Thought for the day:
" God gives us relatives; thank God we can chose our friends. "
1765 The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for
British military operations in North America
1800 John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion
(later renamed the White House)
1848 In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School
(which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens
1870 In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes
its first official meteorological forecast
1911 The first dropping of a bomb from an aircraft in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War
1957 The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time,
opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas
Birthdays:
1815 Crawford Williamson Long surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
Thought for the day:
" God gives us relatives; thank God we can chose our friends. "
