Forrest’s Birthday – Today In Southern History
13 July 1821
13 July 1821
On this date in 1821…
Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest was born at Chapel Hill, Tennessee.
Other Years:
1585 – A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, North Carolina
.1754 – During the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small stockade of Fort Necessity to the French.
1780 – Georgia troops attacked and defeated a Tory encampment at Gowen’s Old Fort, South Carolina.
1832 – The source of Mississippi River discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft
1862 – The Battle of Murfreesboro, fought in Rutherford County, Tennessee ends in a Confederate victory as a part of General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Middle Tennessee Raid
1868 – Oscar J Dunn, a former slave, was installed as Louisiana reconstruction Lt. Governor.
1919 – Racial rioting occurred in Longview, Texas
1937 – Krispy Kreme Donuts was founded by Vernon Rudolph at Old Salem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
1956 – RCA releases Elvis Presley’s hit single “Hound Dog,” a cover of Big Mama Thornton’s original, along with “Don’t Be Cruel”
1978 – Walter Poenisch completed his 129 mile swim to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida.
1984 – In the Arkansas Ozarks, Terry Wallis was injured in a car accident and stayed comatose, awakening in June, 2003.
1998 – “Image of an Assassination,” the video documentary on Abraham Zapruder’s home movie of U.S. President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas went on sale.
2008 – Brewing company InBev announced a deal to buy St. Louis brewer Anheuser-Busch for almost $52 billion
2015 – Sandra Bland is found dead in Waller County Jail, Texas, after spending the weekend in jail following a traffic offense
2018 – Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay record $4.7 billion in damages in talc cancer case by a jury in Missouri
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