1 October 1800
On this date in 1800…
Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty that negated the Treaty of Fontainebleau and led to the Louisiana Purchase three years later.
Other Years:
1837 - Racer’s Hurricane devastated parts of northeastern Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing about 105 people and causing widespread destruction
1862 – General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry defeated federals in battles at Athens and Huntsville, Alabama.
1885 – The United States Postal Service first began Special delivery mail service on routes in Western Virginia.
1893 – 3rd worst hurricane in US history killed 1,800 people in Mississippi.
1926 - An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post of Texas his left eye; he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft
1946 – The first baseball play-off game for a league championship was played when the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2.
1962 – James Meredith became first black student to attend the University of Mississippi
1967 - Richard Petty chalked up the tenth cosecutive win on his historic streak at the Wilkes 400 at North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina
1971 – Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida
1982 – Disney’s EPCOT Center opened in Orlando, Florida
1986 - The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Georgia was dedicated
2024 - Okaloosa County, Florida, commissioners agreed to purchase the record-holding ocean liner SS United States to sink in the Gulf of America as an artificial reef and diving attraction
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