Croatoan and the Lost Colony – Today In Southern History
18 August 1590
18 August 1590
On this date in 1590…
Governor John White returned to Roanoke colony and found that the colonists had vanished. The only clue to the mysterious disappearance was the word, “Croatoan” found carved into a tree.
Other Years:
1587 – Virginia Dare was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Eleanor and Ananias Dare, at the ill-fated Roanoke, North Carolina colony.
1774 – Explorer Meriwether Lewis was born near Charlottesville, Virginia.
1779 – A hurricane struck the Louisiana coast, killing many and sinking all but one of a fleet of Spanish warships.
1864 – Federal General Ulysses Grant refused a second Confederate request to exchange Prisoners of War.
1920 - State Representative Harry T. Burn cast the deciding vote in Tennessee to ratify of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution for women’s suffrage in the US
1956 - Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” and “Don’t Be Cruel” reached #1 on the charts and remained thereed for 11 weeks
1958 - Floyd Patterson of Waco, NC defeated Roy Harris in the 13th round for the heavyweight boxing title
1963 – James Meredith became the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1981 – University of Georgia running back, Herschel Walker took out a Lloyd’s of London insurance policy for $1 million.
1983 – Hurricane Alicia struck Houston and Galveston, Texas killing 17 people.
1991 - Hurricane Bob hit North Carolina with 115 mph winds and heavy flooding
2011 - The “West Memphis Three” were released after 18 years of imprisonment
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