July 23rd -------------- *This Day In History* -------------- MsPriss©

This day In history for July 23rd;

1715 -- The first lighthouse in America was authorized for construction at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.

1827 -- 1st US swim school opens (Boston Mass)

1829 -- William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)

1877 -- 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed

1877 -- 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations

1880 -- 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich

1886 -- Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge

1904 -- The ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, MO.

1920 -- Kenya becomes a British crown colony

1937 -- Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)

1956 -- Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph

1964 -- Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage.

1967 -- 43 killed in racial rebellion in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)

1968 -- PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane

1973 -- Ozark AL plane knocked out of the air by lightning, St Louis-36 die

1980 -- Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya

1980 -- River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter

1984 -- Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude

1989 -- FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)

1991 -- James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession

1997 -- Police in Miami Beach, FL, found the body of Andrew Cunanan. He was the suspected killer of Gianni Versace.

1998 -- U.S. scientists at the University of Hawaii turned out more than 50 "carbon-copy" mice, with a cloning technique.

I hope everyone enjoys this day in history!!

MsPriss *PrissieHuggzz* :)

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