21 August 1864
On this date in 1864…
General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Confederate cavalry recaptured Memphis, Tennessee.
Other Years:
1680 – The Pueblo Indians drove the Spanish out and took possession of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1806 – Zebulon Pike’s Missouri expedition held a council with both the Grand and Little bands of the Osage tribe.
1821 – Confederate General William Barksdale was born in Smyrna, Tennessee.
1831 – The Nat Turner slave rebellion killed 55 people in Southampton County, Virginia.
1863 - William Clark Quantrill’s Confederate guerrillas sacked Lawrence, Kansas in retaliation for federal crimes against Missouri civillians
1895 - Confederate veteran Henry Morton Stanley made his first speech in the UK House of Commons in a discussion on Africa
1958 KUT-FM in Austin, Texas, began radio transmissions
1971 – At the age of 16, Laura Baugh pf Gainesville, Florida won the United States Women’s Amateur Golf tournament. She was becoming the youngest winner in the history of the tournament.
1995 - Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 crashed near Carrollton, Georgia, killing 9 crew members and passengers
1997 – Arkansas-based Hudson Foods closed a plant in Nebraska after it had recalled 25 million pounds of contaminated ground beef, the largest food recall in the U.S.
2021 - Flash flooding in Humphreys County, Tennessee, killed 22 people and left dozens missing
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