July

The Treasure Coast – Today In Southern History

Other Years:

1864 – The Battle of Sunshine Church near Round Oak, Georgia.
1966 – Alabama protesters burned Beatle products due to John Lennon’s “Jesus” remark.
1969 – Elvis Presley performed a live concert for the first time since 1961 at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. It would be the first of his many performances delivered in Vegas.

Other Years:

1619 – The Virginia House of Burgesses formed as the first elected American governing body in Jamestown.
1729 – The city of Baltimore was founded in Maryland.
1864 – Confederate troops repulsed the assault of Grant’s federal troops after they exploded a mine under Southern fortifications in the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia.
1864 – Federal cavalry occupied Macon, Georgia.
1970 – Hurricane Celia made its first landfall and killed 31 people in Cuba, Florida, and Texas.
1990 – The first Saturn automobile rolled off the assembly line in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

Other Years:

1847 – Cumberland School of Law was founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, one of only 15 law schools exist in the United States at that time.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., federal troops dispersed the last of the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans.
1940 – John Sigmund of St. Louis, MO, completed a 292-mile swim down the Mississippi River.
1985 – General Motors announced its new Saturn automobile assembly plant would be located in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

Other Years:

1862 – Fort Bowie was established at Apache Pass in southeastern Arizona Territory, by U.S. Brigadier General James Charlatan’s California volunteers.
1868 – The Fourteenth Amendment, which granted former slaves the rights of citizenship, was declared to be ratified by the U.S. Secretary of State.
1896 – The city of Miami, FL, was incorporated.
1957 – Jerry Lee Lewis appeared on the Steve Allen Show to perform his hit “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.” In his usual outrageous style, Lewis slung his piano bench across the stage.
1994 – Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers pitched the 14th perfect game in major league baseball history.

Other Years:

1586 – Sir Walter Raleigh brought first tobacco to England from Virginia.
1824 – Florida Governor William Duval officially removed Principal Seminole Chief Neamathla from his position because of fears that he planned to lead an uprising of Seminole that have avoided removal from Florida.
1861 – Confederate troops occupied Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Territory.
1864 – Federal General William Tecumseh Sherman needlessly ordered the destruction of all railroad lines in federal occupied territory south of Atlanta.
1958 – Southern Aviator and WWII Flying Tiger commander, Lt. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault died at the age of 64 of lung cancer in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1962 – Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Albany, Georgia.
2007 – News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collided over Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix with no survivors while covering a police chase. This was the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civilian aviation accident in Phoenix history.