Deliverance – Today In Southern History

Jul 30, 2026

30 July 1972

1619 – The Virginia House of Burgesses formed as the first elected American governing body in Jamestown.
1715 – A Spanish treasure fleet loaded with gold and silver disappeared in a hurricane off St. Lucie, Florida triggering a financial crisis in Europe similar with the Great Depression
1729 – The city of Baltimore was founded in Maryland
1864 – Confederate troops repulsed the assault of Grant’s federal troops after they exploded a mine under Southern fortifications in the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia.
1864 – Federal cavalry occupied Macon, Georgia.
1946 – The first rocket to attain 100 miles altitude launched in White Sands, New Mexico
1954 – Elvis Presley joined the Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1969 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas began broadcasts
1970 – Hurricane Celia made its first landfall and killed 31 people in Cuba, Florida, and Texas.
1982 – The Atlanta Braves removed the iconic Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seating
1990 – The first Saturn automobile rolled off the assembly line in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
2016 – A hot-air balloon crashed into power lines near Lockhart, Texas, killing all 16 people on board
2020 – NASA launched an Atlas V 541 rocket carrying its Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter to Mars from Cape Canaveral, Florida