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Oct. 17
1691 New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth 1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY 1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown 1814 Eight people die in the London Beer Flood 1829 Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opened 1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented 1868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect 1871 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus 1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie) 1899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000 1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service 1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I 1931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison 1933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany 1941 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland 1947 The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time 1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens 1957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m 1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, not corrected till Dec 3 1967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km 1969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth 1973 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins 1975 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at Natl Space Tech Labs, Miss 1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament 1978 Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship 1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem 1988 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment 1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
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Today's Featured Article - When Push Comes to Shove - by Dave Patterson. When I was a “kid” (still am to a deree) about two I guess, my parents couldn’t find me one day. They were horrified (we lived by the railroad), my mother thought the worst: "He’s been run over by a train, he’s gone forever!" Where did they find me? Perched up on the seat of the tractor. I’d probably plowed about 3000 acres (in my head anyway) by the time they found me. This is where my love for tractors started and has only gotten worse in my tender 50 yrs on this “green planet”. I’m par
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