28 May 1830
On this date in 1830…
President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law seizing the lands of the “Five Civilized Tribes.” Congress codified Jackson’s suggestion that the U.S. government renege on all of the previous peace treaties, which granted Indians their lands forever, and remove all Indians west of the Mississippi River.
Other Years:
- 1774 – The first Continental Congress convened in Virginia.
- 1818 – Confederate General P. G.T. Beauregard was born at the “Contreras” sugar-cane plantation in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.
- 1888 – World-class Indian athlete Jim Thorpe was born in a one-room cabin near Prague in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma.
- 1971 – Audie Leon Murphy, the most decorated American soldier of WWII died at the age of 46 in a plane crash at Brush Mountain, Virginia.
- 1984 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan led a state funeral for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. The remains were subsequently placed in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. There is a high probability that this soldier is a Southerner.
- 1977 – One hundred sixty-five people died in a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky.
- 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.
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