The Hunley Raised – Today In Southern History

Aug 08, 2026

Divers raised the sunken Confederate submarine C.S.S. Horace L.Hunley from the bottom of Charleston Harbor.

1699 – In Biloxi, the coastal-dwelling Tohome tribe formally established peaceful relations with the French.
1862 – The Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.
1863 – Tennessee occupation Governor Andrew Johnson freed his personal slaves as a good will gesture to his new masters in Washington D.C.
1863 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis refused General Robert E. Lee’s resignation offer after the Battle of Gettysburg.
1864 – Backed by a large fleet, federal troops occupied Fort Gaines, at the mouth of Mobile Bay in Alabama.
1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Florida short-story writer and author of The Yearling, was born in Washington, DC
1950 – The first Whataburger restaurant opened in Corpus Christi, Texas.
1956 WDIQTV channel 2 in Dozier, AL began broadcast
1968 – Black protestors rioted in Miami for the Republican National Convention.
1969 – Texas Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were brutally murdered in Beverly Hills by cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his disciples.
1975 - Hank Williams Jr. fell from the side of Ajax Peak in Montana causing severe injuries
2013 – Four people were killed and four were wounded by a gunman in Dallas, Texas.
2022 - The FBI conducted a search of former US President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, claiming he mis-handled classified documents

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