On This Day in History II

March 8

1782
Gnadenhutten Massacre:  Ohio militia kills 90 Native Americans.

1817
The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

1838
US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes).

1855
The first train crosses the first US railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls.

1862
The Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal.

1862
Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" is launched.

1862
Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia,  CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor.

1865
The Battle of Kingston, North Carolina (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks).

1884
Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, 16 years after legislators first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.

1894
The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog licensing law.

1916
US invades Cuba for the third time to end the corrupt Menocal regime.

1917
At the urging of Woodrow Wilson, the US Senate introduces the Cloture Rule, requiring a two thirds majority to end debate.

1934
Edwin Hubble's photo shows as many galaxies as the Milky Way has stars.

1936
The first stock car race is held at Daytona Beach, Florida.

1944
US resumes bombing Berlin.

1948
US Supreme Court rules in McCollum -v- Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional.

1957
USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test.

1958
William Faulkner says US schools have degenerated to become babysitters.

1959
Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx's final TV appearance together.

1961
US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at the Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record undersea journey of 66 days 22 hrs.

1962
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

1971
Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"

1973
Eisenhower Tunnel, the world's highest and the US's longest, opens 60km (37ml) west of Denver, Colorado.

1973
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

1979
China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam.

1980
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

1980
The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.

1983
The first known use of the term "Evil Empire" (about the USSR), by President Ronald Reagan, in a speech in Florida.

1986
Martina Navratilova is the first tennis player to earn $10 million.

1987
FBI apprehends most wanted, Claude L Dallas Jr, in California.

1990
NYC's Zodiac killer shoots his first victim, Mario Orosco.

1991
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

1991
Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf.   Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it had captured.

1999
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.

2012
Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns.

2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, with 239 people on board, loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries.

2018
US President Donald Trump authorizes tariffs on steel and aluminium, excluding Canada and Mexico.

2019
US national women's soccer team sue for equal pay by filing a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation.

1782 - Gnadenhutten - 97 are either smacked over the head with a coopers mallet ( for the males ), or burned alive for the females. three escape. one without his scalp. all 97 were singing Psalm 23 when killed.

today, the msm wishes for you to celebrate molotovs birthday. i shit you not. this is no joke.

March 10

1762
French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities. The event inspires Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

1783
The USS Alliance, under Captain Barry, fights and wins the last naval battle of the US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral.

1791
The Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy.

1801
The first official census in Great Britain, revealing a population of approximately 10 million.

1849
Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (the only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions.

1862
The US issues its first paper money in the form of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000 notes.

1864
Ulysses S. Grant is named Commander of the Union armies.

1864
The Red River campaign is begun in Louisiana by Union forces.

1865
Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina.

1876
First telephone call. Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson.

1891
Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

1902
A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.

1933
Major earthquake (6.4 magnitude) in Long Beach, California, kills 120 and destroys 70 school buildings.

1933
Nevada becomes the first US state to regulate narcotics.

1945
Germany blows up Wessel Bridge on the Rhine.

1945
Japan grants occupied Vietnam independence.

1945
Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army.

1945
Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.

1951
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines the post of baseball commissioner.

1952
Military coup led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba.

1960
USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing.

1964
A US reconnaissance plane is shot down over East Germany.

1966
North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley.

1968
North Vietnamese and communist Laotion troops overrun a secret US radar facility, Lima Site 85, on a Laos mountaintop.

1969
James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.

1971
US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18.

1972
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR.

1975
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens at the Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances.

1977
The Rings of Uranus are discovered during the occulation of SAO.

1982
US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya.

1982
The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.

1990
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

2010
Carlos Slim becomes the first Mexican, and person from an emerging economy, to top the Forbes Richest Person list with a net worth of US$53.5 billion.

2012
At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza.

2014
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns Russia's Vladimir Putin that making Crimea a part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution.

2015
The family of Marvin Gaye win a record $7.3 million lawsuit for music copyright infringement against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I.

2018
16 people die after being struck by lightning at a church in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda.

2020
Russian lower house of Parliament passes legislation to allow Vladimir Putin to hold office of President for life.

2020
New York governor Andrew Cuomo deploys the national guard to New Rochelle after a one-mile radius zone is established as 108 cases of COVID-19 are detected.

2021
Video gaming platform Roblox goes public on the New York stock exchange, valued at $45 billion.

[size=45]Lincoln labeled his invention [/size][size=45]Buoying Vessels Over Shoals[/size][size=45] and it was used to get them over shoals.[/size]^[7][size=45] He envisioned a system of waterproof fabric bladders that could be inflated when necessary to help ease a stuck steamboat over such obstacles.[/size]^[8][size=45] When crew members knew their ship was stuck, or at risk of hitting a shallow, Lincoln's invention could be activated, which would inflate accordion-shaped air chambers along the sides of the watercraft to lift it above the water's surface, providing enough clearance to avoid a disaster.[/size]^[9][size=45] As part of the research process, Lincoln designed a scale model of a ship outfitted with the device.[/size]^[10][size=45] This model (built and assembled with the assistance of a mechanic from Springfield named Walter Davis[/size]^[10][size=45]) that was originally taken to the [/size][size=45]United States Patent and Trademark Office[/size][size=45] in Washington[/size]^[11][size=45] is now on display at the [/size][size=45]Smithsonian Institution[/size][size=45].[/size]^[12][size=45] At the time the patent was issued, Lincoln was a congressman. He is the only United States president to be a patentee.[/size]^[12]

Something went wrong ! It won't let me show the pics of Lincolns model boat with the bellows attached .

or.......you could just plow ahead into the mudbank that had been plowed into for successive generations.

Hours later its deciding to work ! I think the Russians hacked my puter

question. what would push the pontoons down and raise the boat up? we are talking about at least three feet elevated, correct?

if you read about every paddle wheeler that changed river systems, like the one Sam Houston used to escape santa anna on, it first " crossed the bar " upon entering the brazos river before headed up to Washington on the Brazos.