Sinclair Dates

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.com>]

   [1]Tomorrow:
   July 30

   1178:  Barbarossa  of Burgundy, Frederick I (Barbarossa), crowned King
   of Burgundy

   1619:  Virginia  House of Burgesses forms, House of Burgesses Virginia
   forms, 1st elective American governing unit

   1620:  Virginia House of Burgesses meets, The House of Burgesses first
   meeting in Jamestown, Virginia.

   1729: Baltimore, Baltimore founded

   1733:  Freemasons  in  U.S.,  Society of Freemasons opens 1st American
   lodge Boston Mass.

   1768: Capt. Cook sails, Captain Cook set sail on his first voyage.

   1775:  Capt.  Cook  returns,  Captain  Cook with Resolution returns to
   England

   1777: Washington in Germantown, George Washington occupies Germantown,
   Pennsylvania

   1778: Lafayette in RI, Lafayette was sent to Rhode Island.

   1792:  la  Marseillaise, 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national
   anthem for 1st time

   1862:  US  incivility,  the  US government refused to clothe and equip
   black soldiers in the Civil War.

   1863:  Lincoln eye-for-eye, Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to
   shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot

   1864:  Battle  of  the  Crater,  Gen.  Burnside  fails  in  attack  of
   Petersburg

   1866: NO Race riot, Race riot in New Orleans

   1878:  anti-semitism, German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag
   election

   1898: corn flakes, Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes

   1908: world road race, Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris

   1916:  German  sabotage, German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on
   Black Tom Island, NJ

   1928: movies, George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures

   1942:  WAVES,  FDR  signs  bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency
   (WAVES)

   1942: Minsk massacre, Nazi SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

   1945:  Indianopolis  sinks,  Philippines  Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis
   torpedoed/sinks, 880 die

   1949:  Amethyst  escapes,  British  warship  HMS  Amethyst escape down
   Yangtze   River,  having  been  refused  a  safe  passage  by  Chinese
   Communists after 3-month standoff

   1956: In God We Trust, US motto "In God We Trust" authorized

   1963:  Philby  surfaces,  Spy  Kim  Philby appears in Moscow after his
   flight from England

   1971: Bangladesh album, George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"

   2000: Sinclairs in Church, [2]Church service

References

   1. http://sinclair.quarterman.org/timeline.html
   2. http://sinclair.quarterman.org/sinclair/s2000.html
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