23 October 1864
On this date in 1864…
Union General Samuel R Curtis defeated Confederate General Stirling Price at the Battle of Westport, ending Price’s Missouri Raid.
Other Years:
1739 - British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain starting the War of Jenkins’ Ear which strecthed into the Southern Colonies
1828 – Confederate cavalry General Turner Ashby was born in Fauquier County, Virginia.
1876 - New Orleans Mint reopened post-bellum but only as an assay office
1930 – J.K. Scott won the first miniature golf tournament in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1942 - The first ships of a US invasion fleet bound for Morocco leave Norfolk, Virginia
1953 - WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, Western Virginia began broadcasts
1962 – During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. naval “quarantine” of Cuba was approved by the Council of the Organization of American States.
1964 - Joe Frazier of Beaufort, South Carolina defeats German Hans Huber with an easy points win and takes Olympic heavyweight gold medal in Tokyo
1981 - The US national debt reached $1 trillion
1993 – Oklahoma’s Joe Carter, while playing for the Toronto Blue Jays, became only the second player to end the World Series with a home run.
2023 - A ‘Superfog’ near New Orleans caused a mass pile-up involving 158 vehicles and seven deaths
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