The Roswell Incident Report – Today In Southern History
24 June 1997
On this date in 1997…
The Air Force released a report on the so-called “Roswell U.F.O. Incident,” suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies. The report still does not explain why the dummies were passengers on a weather balloon and many other questions about the events and actions of the government surrounding the events of July 1947 outside Roswell and Corona, New Mexico.
Other Years:
1832 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state of Georgia illegally tried to exercise control over the Cherokee contrary to federal law, and treaties. The court struck down the anti-Indian laws passed by Georgia seizing land and nullifying tribal laws. U.S. President Andrew Jackson was quoted saying, “John Marshall has rendered his decision; now let him enforce it,” then proceeded to ignore the Supreme Court.
1853 – U.S. President Franklin Pierce signed the Gadsden Purchase agreement of 29,670 square miles from Mexico in present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million.
1861 - Tennessee became the 11th state to secede from the Union
1863 – Confederate Generals James Longstreet and A.P. Hill moved their corps into Maryland and gained position to invade Pennsylvania.
1953 - KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM began broadcasting just six years after the reputed saucer crash
1968 - Joe Frazier beat Mexican challenger Manuel Ramos in 2 rounds in his first heavyweight boxing title defense
1986 – Guy Hunt was elected as the first Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years.
1992 - LSU center Shaquille O’Neal was the first pick by Orlando Magic in the NBA Draft
2022 - US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade reinstating the states’ rights to prohibit abortion in a 6-3 vote
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