12 August 1831
On this date in 1831…
George Gaines, the younger brother of General Edmund Gaines and a man the Choctaw trusted, was appointed Special Agent to supervise the removal of the Choctaw tribe to the west bank of the Mississippi River. Against Choctaw wishes, at that point the Army took custody of the Choctaw, herding them down the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory.
Other Years:
1806 – Frontiersman Davy Crockett married Polly Finley in Tennessee.
1840 – Comanche warriors and Texas Rangers collided at the Battle of Plum Creek, near the present-day of Lockhart, Texas.
1861- Confederate troops fought off an attack by Apache Indians in central Texas.
1863 – Federal troops began indiscriminate shelling of the city of Charleston, South Carolina and her harbor forts often using incendiary shells against civilians in the city.
1898 – The United States illegally annexed the Kingdom of Hawaii as a territory.
1936 - he temperature reached 120°F in Seymour, Texas setting a state record
1955 - WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL began broadcast
1960 – The first communications satellite, the balloon satellite Echo One was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1964 - Mickey Mantle of Spavinaw, Oklahoma switch-hit a home run for the record 10th and final time in a game for the New York yankees
1966 - Longview, Texas radio station KLUE held a “Beatles Bonfire” to burn Beatles records and memorabilia after John Lennon’s ‘Jesus' remark.’ The station was struck by lightning the next day
2015 - Former US President Jimmy Carter revealed that he had cancer
2015 - The US Postal Service issued a second postage stamp featuring Elvis Presley
2017 - The “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent when police allowed leftist counter protestors to surround and attack people protesting the removal of the Robert E Lee monument.
2025 - US President Donald Trump deployed at least 800 National Guard troops in Washington, DC and declared federal control of the DC police force
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