On this date in 1813…
At the start of the Creek Civil War, the Red Stick faction of Creek Indians having been armed by the British at Pensacola, massacred 517American settlers and mixed-blood Creeks in the stockade of Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
Other Years:
1690 – A force of British militia, Yamassee and Yuchi Indians attacked the Timucua Indians and Spanish at the Franciscan mission of San Juan de Guacara in northern Florida, killing all the Timucua Indians.
1800 – Gabriel Prosser led a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia.
1861 – Federal General John C. Fremont exceeded his authority and issued a proclamation freeing slaves in Missouri. His superiors soon repudiated the order and relieved him of command.
1862 – Confederates again routed federal troops at the Second Battle of Manassas, Virginia.
1893 – “The Kingfish,” Huey Pierce Long, Jr. was born in Winnfield, Louisiana.
1905 - Future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder Ty Cobb of Narrows, Georgia made his MLB debut for the Detroit Tigers
1937 - Joe Louis of Lafayette, Alabama beat Tommy Farr in 15 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title
1956 – White protestors prevented enrollment of black students at Mansfield High School, Mansfield, Texas.
1956 - The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opened in Louisiana as the longest continuous bridge in the world
1969 – More than 120,000 attended the Texas International Pop Festival rock concerts.
1979 – Hurricane David first made landfall, it would kill 1,200 people in Florida, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.
1981 - Bill Shoemaker of Fabens, Texas became the first jockey to win a $1 million thoroughbred horse race riding John Henry to win the inaugural Arlington Million
2022 - In Jackson, Mississippi the city’s largest water treatment plant failed and left 150,000 people without safe running water
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