The Alabama – Today In Southern History

Jul 29, 2026

29 July 1862

1676 – Nathaniel Bacon was declared a rebel for organizing settlers to protect them from Indian attacks in Virginia colony
1715 – Ten Spanish treasure galleons sank off Florida’s Atlantic coast in a unpredicted hurricane
1847 – Cumberland School of Law was founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, one of only 15 law schools exist in the United States at that time.
1862 – Belle Boyd was arrested as a Confederate spy by federal troops and imprisoned in Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC
1930 – 115°F was recorded in Holly Springs, Mississippi for a state record high
1932 – Federal troops dispersed the last of the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans in Washington, D.C.
1933 – Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow escape a police shootout in Iowa that left Clyde’s brother Buck Barrow dead and his wife captured
1940 – John Sigmund of St. Louis, MO, completed a 292-mile swim down the Mississippi River.
1950 – Pee Wee Reese Of Ekron, Kentucky hits his 3,000th home run for the Dodgers
1957 – Floyd Patterson of Waco, NC TKO’d Tommy Jackson in the 10th round for the heavyweight boxing title
1974 – The St. Louis Cardinals’ Lou Brock of Eldorado, AR stole his 700th base
1985 – General Motors announced its new Saturn automobile assembly plant would be located in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
1999 – A gunman targeted Atlanta-area day trading firms, killing 12 and injuring 13 others in Georgia’s deadliest mass shooting