History A-Z IV

[Cymru9696]

Zebulon Pike discovers a mountain

Previous to him, it was simply called “Peak”

 

[lifeisgood3976]

Adams - John, Abigail and John Quincy

 

[VoraciousValue]

Battle of Bosworth Field

Adams - John, Abigail and John Quincy

Also Charles Francis and Henry

 

[lifeisgood3976]

Carter, James Earl, aka "Jimmy"

 

[Cymru9696]

Dodgers move from Brooklyn to LA (1957)

 

[Gamine67]

Eli Whitney patents the Cotton Gin.

 

[VoraciousValue]

Guadalcanal

 

[jarigi]

Homer........not SIMPSON you philistine!

 

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JFK Assassination

 

[kentuckymtnman]

Korean conflict

 

[Gamine67]

Langley invents the Bolometer. (Yep, same Langley)

 

[lifeisgood3976]

Maginot Line

"Fixed fortifications are a monument to man's stupidity." George Patton

 

[Gamine67]

Oppenheimer wins the Fermi Award (1963)

 

[Cymru9696]

Phil McCracken invents anal sex

 

[Gamine67]

Phil McCracken invents anal sex

Source? Funk & Wagnall’s credits Benjamin (Ben) Dover in 1886 at Bean’s Boy School in Hefordshire.

Quantum Mechanics fathered by Max Planck

 

[Tedfkats]

Re-inventing the wheel

 

[Cymru9696]

Someone put their chocolate in someone else’s peanut butter (1981)

 

[Tedfkats]

Unable to digitally send pics

 

[Gamine67]

Vaccination against Polio. Thanks Jonas Salk!

 

[Gamine67]

X-15 breaks Mach 7 in 1967

 

[Gamine67]

Zulu Wars

 

[Tedfkats]

Zulu Wars

 

[Tedfkats]

Zulu Wars

Alternating current

 

[VoraciousValue]

Beating of Rodney King

 

[jarigi]

Collapse of the Soviet Union