Fort Necessity – Today In Southern History
4 June 1754
On this date in 1754…
Colonel George Washington and his small British and Virginian military force started construction of Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War.
Other Years:
1812 – Most of Louisiana Territory was officially renamed Missouri Territory.
1816 – The first double-decker steamboat, the Washington, was launched at Wheeling in western Virginia.
1862 – Confederate troops evacuated Fort Pillow, Tennessee to avoid encirclement by invading federal naval and land forces.
1917 - American men begin registering for the WWI draft
1919 - The US Congress passes the Women’s Suffrage Bill aka the 19th Amendment
1939 – The first shopping cart was introduced by Sylvan Goldman in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1985 – The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Alabama’s “moment of silence” law saying that it was too similar to prayer in public schools.
1992 - USPS announces 1.2 million people voted to choose a portrait of young Elvis on their Elvis Presley stamp by 75%
1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
2019 - Former school security guard Scot Peterson arrested and charged with neglect of a child and culpable negligence for not confronting gunman during Parkland school massacre in Florida
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