September

The Elaine Conspiracy – Today In Southern History

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30 September 1919 

On this date in 1919…

Socialist agitators incited a plot that resulted in a race riot in Elaine, Arkansas that killed as many as 250 people. The Elaine Riots were part of several incidents that made up the “Red Summer” of 1919.


Other Years:

1924 – Author Truman Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1962 – Federal Marshalls backed by 3,000 federal troops invaded Ole Miss and used terror and excessive force to enforce an integration order and enroll James Lee Meredith. Their actions caused days of violent riots.
1992 – Western Virginia native George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached his 3,000th career hit during a game against the California Angels. 

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    nichols Trial Begins – Today In Southern History

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    29 September 1997 

    On this date in 1997…

    Jury selection began in the terry nichols trial for the Oklahoma City bombing trial.


    Other Years:

    1789 – On the final day of its first session, The U.S. Congress officially created the United States military.
    1864 – The Battle of Chaffin’s Farm, Virginia began.
    1915 – A hurricane killed 275 victims in the Mississippi Delta. 
    1927 – A tornado killed 85 people in St Louis Missouri.
    1962 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy authorized use of federal troops to integrate the University of Mississippi ad nationalized the Mississippi National guard in response to city officials defying federal court orders.
    1986 – Western Virginia native and Olympic gold medalist, Mary Lou Retton announced that she was quitting gymnastics. 

    1988 – The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster. 

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      Yorktown Siege Begins – Today In Southern History

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      28 September 1781 

      On this date in 1781…

      The Continental Army under General George Washington began the siege of Lord Cornwallis’s British troops at Yorktown, Virginia.


      Other Years:

      1528 – A Spanish fleet sank in a Florida hurricane drowning about 380 victims.
      1787 – The U.S. Congress voted to send the new Constitution of the United States to the state legislatures for their approval. 
      1789 – In the U.S., the first Federal Congress passed a resolution that asked President George Washington to recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. Several days later Washington issued a proclamation that named Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a “Day of Publick Thanksgiving.”
      1912 – W.C. Handy’s “Memphis Blues” was published.
      1967 – The first mayor of Washington, DC, Walter Washington, took office.
      1968 – The Atlanta Chiefs won the first North American Soccer League Championship/
      2000 – The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States to induce abortion.

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        Ponce De Leon – Today In Southern History

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        27 September 1514 

        On this date in 1514…

        Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon was granted the title Military Governor of Bimini and Florida.


        Other Years:

        1862 – Federal General W.T. Sherman ordered that for every instance of firing onto a supply boat, ten families should be expelled from Memphis, Tennessee. Sherman then began placing Confederate prisoners on boats as human shields.
        1864 – The Centralia Massacre occurred in Missouri when twenty-four Federal soldiers were captured and executed by troops under “Bloody Bill” Anderson as retaliation for similar atrocities commited against Confederates.
        1964 – The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
        1864 – The Battle of Fort Davidson at Pilot Knob, Missourri was the opening engagement of General Sterling Price’s Missourri Raid. Federal troops fled the fort under cover of darkness, ending the battle with forces suffering 1,700 combined casualties.
        1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name occurred en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina.
        1930 – Bobby Jones of Atlanta, Georgia won the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete what was then the Grand Slam of golf: the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
        1998 – Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals set a major league baseball record when he hit his 70th home run of the season.

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        Daniel Boone – Today In Southern History

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        26 September 1820 

        On this date in 1820…

        Daniel Boone died at the age of 85 in Osage Creek Missouri. His remains were later re-interred in Frankfort, Kentucky.


        Other Years:

        1789 – Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s first Secretary of State and Edmund Jennings Randolph (both from Virginia) was appointed the first Attorney General under the U.S. Constitution.
        1888 – Poet, dramatist, and Nobel Prize winner, T. S. Eliot was born in  St Louis Missouri.

        1933 – Gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI outside Memphis, Tennessee. Kelly shouted out, “Don’t shoot, G-Men!”, which became a nickname for FBI agents. 
        1962 – “The Beverly Hillbillies” premiered on CBS-TV.
        1980 – The Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor to end the boatlift of Cuban “refugees” that began the previous April. 
        1981 – Nolan Ryan of Texas set a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.

        1985 – Shamu, the first killer whale to survive being born in captivity, was born at Sea World in Orlando, Florida.
        1991 – The two-year Biosphere 2 experiment began in Oracle Arizona.
        1993 – The eight people who had stayed in “Biosphere II” emerged to end the experiment,

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