4 September 1957
On this date in 1957 the Central High Crisis began…
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to preserve the peace and prevent civil unrest when nine black students attempted to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock.
Other Years:
1862 – The C.S.S. Oreto ran the Federal blockade and made port at Mobile, Alabama.
1862 – General Lee invaded the North with 50,000 Confederate troops during the Maryland Campaign.
1864 – Confederate General John Hunt Morgan was killed at Greenville, Tennessee.
1864 – Bread riots broke out in Mobile, Alabama.
1886 – Geronimo and his band of Apache holdouts surrendered in Arizona to U.S. Gen. Nelson Miles.
1921 – The first police broadcast was made by radio station WIL in St. Louis, Missouri.
1950 - NASCAR’s first paved superspeedway, Darlington Raceway, held the Southern 500, the first 500-mile event in NASCAR history
2002 - Kelly Clarkson of Ft. Worth, Texas was named winner of the first ever “American Idol” TV singing competition
2024 - A 14-year-old student killed two teachers and two students, wounding nine more, at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia
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Interesting line of events. I am wondering, how did you choose which ones to include?