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1492: Columbus' fleet sets sail west. 1675: New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians. 1753: The first steam engine arrives in US colonies. 1796: The Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "United States". 1830: Charles Durant, the first US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ. 1850: California becomes the 31st state. 1850: Territories of New Mexico and Utah created. 1862: Civil War. Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry. 1863: Civil War. Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. 1878: Millie Myrtle Kraus was born to Edward and Martha in Arkansas. 1908: Orville Wright makes the first 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Virginia. 1912: J. Verdrines becomes the first to fly over 100 mph (107 mph). 1926: The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) is created by Radio Corporation of America. 1942: WWII. The first bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon. 1943: WWII: Italy surrenders to Allies. 1943: WWII: US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche). 1944: WWII: Allied forces liberate Luxembourg. 1944: WWII: US 113th cavalry passes Belgium-Dutch borders. 1945: WWII:Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies. 1945: The first "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log. 1950: The first use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune. 1971: 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison. 1977: The first TRS-80 computer sold. 1982: Conestoga 1, the firstt private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight. 1983: Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2). 1990: Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait.
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Photograph: Sons of John Acord and Martha Dickerson

Sons of John Acord and Martha Dickerson

Believed to be sons of John Columbus Acord and Martha Ann Dickerson. Francis Marion Acord (1858-1924), Jefferson David Acord (1861-1916), John Columbus Acord Jr. (1866-1947), William Thomas Acord (1868-1945). Photo courtesy of Polly Singley. [000004]