The American Patriot – Today In Southern History
29 May 1736
On this date in 1736…
Patrick Henry was born in Studley, Hanover County, Virginia colony. This also the day in 1765 that he gave his historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of “Treason!” with, “If this be treason, make the most of it!”
Other Years:
1677 – The Pamunkey, Roanoke, Nottaway and Nansemond Tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy signed the Treaty of Middle Plantation establishing peace with the English settlers in Virginia colony.
1721 – South Carolina was formally incorporated as a royal colony.
1765 – Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia‘s House of Burgesses.
1780 - the Battle of Waxhaw Creek ended with the massacre of 113 of Colonel Abraham Buford’s force by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton’s British troops after the patriots surrendered
1787 – The “Virginia Plan” was proposed to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.
1886 - Southern pharmacist and Confederate veteran John Pemberton begins advertising his patented medicine, Coca-Cola, in Atlanta, GA.
1932 - The Bonus Army of World War I veterans begins to assemble in Washington, D.C. to request cash bonuses promised to them.
1945 - Amid cheers of Southern marines, Cpt. Julian Dusenbury of Columbia, SC raised the Confederate Battle Flag over the ruins of Shuri Castle on Okinawa to signal Japanese stronghold’s fall.
1956 - WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL made its first broadcast.
1988 – NBC aired “To Heal A Nation,” the story of Marylander, Jan Scruggs’ effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
2004 - The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington DC.
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