The Father Of Oceanography – Today In Southern History
14 January 1806
On this date in 1806…
Matthew Fontaine Maury, a long-time US Naval officer, commander in the CS Navy, diplomat for CS government in Europe, and meteorologist was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. For more than a century Maury was celebrated as the father of modern naval oceanography, however his association with the Confederate service has led to his vindictive erasure by liberal historians.
Other Years:
1784 – The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.
1833 – Missionary to the Cherokee. Reverend Samuel Worcester was released from his imprisonment on a charge of defying the state’s order to swear allegiance to Georgia or leave the Cherokee nation..
1861 – Louisiana state troops seized Fort Pike and Fort Pickens fell to Florida state troops.
1863 – Confederate and federal gunboats fought on Bayou Teche, Louisiana.
1864 - The ‘Kentucky Cannibal,’ mountain man and outlaw Levi Boone Helm was hanged by vigilantes in Virginia City, Montana
1874 – Northern mulatto abolitionist I. D. Shadd was elected as Speaker of the lower house of Mississippi’s reconstruction legislature.
1943 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office, flying from Miami, Florida to Morocco.
1963 – George C Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama. His inagural address contained his signature line, “Segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!”
1973 – The Miami Dolphins defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII and became the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.
1985 – Former Miss America and sports-caster, Phyllis George of Texas joined Bill Kurtis as host of “The CBS Morning News”
1998 – In Dallas, Texas researchers reported an enzyme that slowed the aging process and prevented cell death.
1999 – The impeachment trial of U.S. President Bill Clinton began.
2004 – In St. Louis, the Lewis and Clark Exhibition opened at the Missouri History Museum featuring more than 500 rare and priceless objects used by the Corps of Discovery.
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