The New Deal – Today In Southern History
16 June 1933
On this date in 1933…
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his New Deal recovery program, signing bank, rail, and industry bills and initiating farm aid. The New Deal was especially popular in the rural South since there had been much suffering and very little recovery among the common people since the Great Depression began.
Other Years:
1774 – Harrodsburg, Kentucky was founded.
1822 - Denmark Vesey was tried and convicted of planning a slave rebellion in South Carolina
1858 -In a campaign speech for senate, Abraham Lincoln warns that America is a ‘house divided,’ then proceeds to divide it further.
1862 – A federal attempt to capture Charleston is derailed by a Confederate victory at the Battle of Secessionville, on James Island, South Carolina.
1864 Confederate forces defeated Gen. David Hunter’d federal troops at the Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia
1903 - Pepsi-Cola created in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and sold in his drugstore in New Bern, North Carolina gets its trademark
1922 – Henry Berliner accomplished the first helicopter flight at College Park, Maryland.
1987 - Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami opened
2004 – The 9/11 Commission determined that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had no strong links to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House allegations that helped launch the second American invasion of Iraq and led to the dictator’s execution.
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