01:01 /* Happy New Year ! */ 01:15 /* Martin Luther King day. */ 02:02 /* Happy ground hogs day. */ 02:12 /* Abraham Lincoln's Birthday. */ 02:14 /* Valentines day. */ 02:22 /* George Washington's birthday. */ 02:28 /* Indians attacked Deerfield MA, killed 40, carried off 100. - 1704 */ 03:05 /* British Troops fired into Boston mob, killed 5 including Crispus Attucks, a black man, reportedly leader of group; later called Boston Massacre. - 1770 */ 03:17 /* Happy St. Patricks Day! Stamp Act repealed. - 1765 */ 03:20 /* Spring Begins Today ! */ 03:23 /* Patrick Henry addressed Virginia convention and said, "Give me liberty or give me death." - 1775 */ 03:24 /* Exxon Valdez, Prince William Sound Oil Spill - 1989 */ 04:01 /* YOU HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SYSTEM! /O @@^^}}}}}} NO CARRIER !!!!!!!!!!!!! APRIL FOOLS !!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! APRIL FOOLS !!!!!!!!!!!!!! */ 04:04 /* Malbee's Birthday. */ 04:06 /* Slaves revolted in New York, six committed suicide, 21 were executed. - 1712 */ 04:09 /* Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, claimed lower Mississippi River country for France, called it Louisiana. - 1682 */ 04:15 /* Extortion day. */ 04:18 /* Paul Revere and William Dawes rode to alert patriots that British were on their way to Concord to destroy Arms. - 1775 */ 04:19 /* At Lexington MA. Minutemen lost 8 killed, On return from Concord British took 273 Casualties. - 1775 */ 05:02 /* France and Spain each agreed to provide one million livres in arms to Americans. - 1776 */ 05:06 /* Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for Dutch for trinkets valued at $24.00 - 1626 */ 05:10 /* Col. Ethan Allen (joined by Col. Benedict Arnold) captured Ft, Ticonderoga, NY - 1775 */ 05:13 /* Capt. John Smith landed on Virginia Coast and founded Jamestown - 1607 */ 05:21 /* Victoria day (Canada) */ 05:28 /* Memorial day. Hernando de Soto landed in Florida - 1542 */ 06:07 /* In Continental Congress Richard Henry Lee (VA.) moved "that these united colonies are and of right and ought to be free and independent states." - 1776 */ 06:14 /* Flag day. */ 06:15 /* Benjamin Franklin flying kite in thunderstorm proved that lightning is electricty. - 1752 */ 06:17 /* King Georges war pitted British and Colonials vs. French. Colonials captures Loiusburg, Cape Breton Is. - 1745 */ 06:21 /* Summer Begins Today Today is the longest day of the year. */ 07:01 /* Today is Canada Day (In Canada) */ 07:04 /* Independence Day. Declaration of Indpendence approved - 1776 */ 07:28 /* Col. Moultrie's batteries at Charleston SC repulsed British sea attack - 1776 */ 08:12 /* Bloody Indian war ended in New England. King Philip, Wampanoag Chief, and many Narragansett Indians Killed. - 1676 */ 08:17 /* Constitution day. */ 08:27 /* Washington, with 10,000 men lost battle of Long Island, evacuated NY. - 1776 */ 08:29 /* Beheading of John the Baptist */ 09:04 /* Quantums Birthday. */ 09:08 /* 300 British troops siezed New Netherland from Dutch who yielded peacefully. Charles II granted province of New Netherland and city of New Amsterdam to brother, Duke of York; both renamed New York. - 1664 */ 09:09 /* Today is Grandparents Day. */ 09:15 /* Plymouth Pilgrims left England on Mayflower - 1620 */ 09:22 /* Nathan Hale executed as spy by British. - 1776 */ 09:23 /* Autumn Begins Today. */ 10:11 /* Brig. Gen Arnolds Lake Champlain fleet was defeated at valcour but British returned to Canada. - 1776 */ 10:12 /* Columbus day. */ 10:26 /* Start of first Continental Congress held in Philedelphia - 1774 */ 10:28 /* Harvard College founded - 1636 Howe failed to destroy Washington's at White Plains. */ 10:31 /* Happy Halloween */ 11:11 /* Veterans day. */ 11:16 /* Hessians captured Ft. Washington, Manhattan, and 3,000 men. - 1776 */ 11:19 /* Plymouth Pilgrims Landed in Cape Cod - 1620 */ 11:28 /* Hessians captured Ft. Lee, NJ - 1776 */ 12:16 /* East India company tea ships cargo thrown overboard at Boston Tea Party - 1773 */ 12:19 /* 1990 Version 2.0 of the Logon program was finished. 1989 The "logon" program first worked */ 12:21 /* Winter Begins today. Today is the shortest day of the year. Pilgrims Landed at Plymouth MA. - 1620 */ 12:24 /* Christmas eve. */ 12:25 /* Christmas day. Washington in Pennsylvania, recrossed Delaware River. - 1776 */ 12:26 /* Washington defeated 1,400 Hessians at Trenton NJ - 1776 */