The Mighty Boll Weevil – Today In Southern History
11 December 1919
On this date in 1919…
The citizens of Enterprise, Alabama, erected a monument to the boll weevil, thanking the insect for forcing economic diversification in the cotton belt.
Other Years:
1775 – Virginia and North Carolina Patriots routed Loyalist troops and burned Norfolk, Virginia.
1833 – Captain Page and almost 700 Choctaw reached their destination at Fort Towson, in eastern Indian Territory
1862 – Confederate General Wade Hampton’s cavalry raided the federal supply depot at Dumfries, Virginia.
1872 – Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became America’s first black governor when he took office as reconstruction governor of Louisiana.
1946 – County music legend Hank Williams recorded his first songs for Sterling Records.
1996 – In Crystal City, VA, “The Art of the Toy” exhibit opened at the Patent and Trademark Office Museum.
1998 -The House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
2001 – Georgia media mogil Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres in Nebraska for Bison ranches.
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