The Mason-Dixon Line – Today In Southern History

Oct 18, 2025

Maryland and Pennsylvania agree on the Mason-Dixon Line as their boundary.

1676 – Nathaniel Bacon, leader of a rebellion against Virginia’s colonial government was killed at the age of 29.
1862 – Confederate General John H. Morgan’s cavalry seized Lexington, Kentucky.
1898 – The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico one year after the Caribbean nation won its independence from Spain.
1927 – George C. Scott, American actor/director famous for Patton and Dr. Strangelove was born in Wise, Virginia.
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of Pesident John F. Kennedy, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1954 – Texas Instruments Inc. announced the first transistor radio.
1997 – A monument honoring U.S. servicewomen, past and present, was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.

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