Maryland, My Maryland – Today In Southern History

Apr 28, 2026

1635 – Virginia colony Governor John Harvey was accused of treason and removed from office.
1862 – Forts Jackson and St. Phillip on the Mississippi river surrendered to federal troops.
1871 – In response to raids near Tucson, William Oury embarked, leading 140 armed white and Mexican settlers for the Apache village near Camp Grant, Arizona.
1881 - Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County jail in Lincoln, New Mexico, killing deputies James W. Bell and Bob Olinger
1882 – Remnants of Chiricuhua Chief Loco’s Apache were routed by Troops of the 6th U.S. Cavalry, and a company of Indian scouts south of Cloverdale, Arizona. The surviving Indians fled to Mexico.
1914 - One hundred eighty-one men died in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West(ern) Virginia
1924 – One Hundred nineteen men were killed in a Benwood, West(ern) Virginia coal mine disaster.
1955 WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, Alabama began broadcasting
1967 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) refused to be drafted into the army and was stripped of his heavyweight title
1980 - Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas opened
2012 – One was killed and 110 injured in a tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri.
2019 - Diver Victor Vescovo of Dallas, TX made the deepest dive ever to the bottom of the Mariana trench at 35,849ft and found a discarded plastic bag

Today In Southern History