Stonewall Jackson Dead – Today In Southern History
10 May 1863
On this date in 1863…
Confederate general Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson died of wounds received from an accidental shooting after the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Other Years:
1652- John Johnson, a free African-Virginian, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Virginia by his father
1676 - Bacon’s Rebellion begins, pitting frontiersmen against Virginia’s colonial government
1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America
1823 - 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling
1861 - Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, Missouri
1864 - Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
1865 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by federal troops at Irwinsville, Georgia
1865 - Yankee soldiers ambushed and mortally wounded r William Quantrill, who lingered until his death on June 6.
1908 – Mother’s Day was observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
1922 - WHB-AM in Kansas City MO began radio transmissions
1953 - KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, TX began broadcasting
1969 - US troops began Battle of Dong Ap Bia, the attack on Hill 937 (“Hamburger Hill”), Vietnam.
1970 - Atlanta Braves’ Hoyt Wilhelm pitched in his 1,000th gameand lost to Cards 6-5
1975 - MTSU’s Brian Oldfield Shot putted 75′, an unofficial record
1976 - Paul Harvey’s daily syndicated program “The Rest of the Story” premiered on the ABC Radio Networks and continued until his death in 2009
2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian landed about 20 yards from U.S. President George W. Bush while he gave a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia butdid not detonate.
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