Lincoln Goes Nuts – Today In Southern History – Dixie Drudge

27 May 1863

Other Years:

1607 – Virginia settles fought their first significant battle against Indians of the Powhattan Confederation.
1864 – The Battle of Pickett’s Mill, Georgia.
1896 – The Great St. Louis tornado killed more than 1000 people in and around St. Louis, Missouri.
1926 – Bronze statues of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were erected in Hannibal, Missouri.
1935 – The U.S. Supreme Court declared that President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional.
1969 – Construction of Walt Disney World began outside Orlando, Florida.
1986 – Mel Fisher recovered a jar that contained 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship Atocha that sank off the Florida coast in the 17th century
1995 – In Culpeper, Virginia, “Superman” actor Christopher Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down after a fall from his horse in a riding competition.
1997 – The Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while U.S. President Bill Clinton was in office.
1998 – Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years prison for not warning anyone about the Oklahoma City bombing plot.