The State of Texas – Today In Southern History
23 June 1845
On this date in 1845…
The Texas legislature in special session voted to accept annexation by the United States after ten years as an independent republic with the proviso that the state would resume its independence if statehood ever caused injury to Texas. In 1861, Texas exercised this right.
Other Years:
1704 – James Moore, former Governor of South Carolina, led a force of 50 British, and 1,000 Creek in an attack the Apalachee Mission of San Pedro y San Pable at Patale, in north-western Florida. Father Manuel de Mendoza was killed and the mission destroyed.
1784 - 13 year old Edward Warren makes the 1st US balloon flight in Baltimore, MD
1864 - Thirty-year ol Stephen Dill Lee of South Carolina became the youngest lieutenant-general in the Confederate Army.
1865 – Confederate General Stand Watie signed cease-hostilities agreements with the United States Government, near Doaksville, Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. General Watie and his Indian Brigade were the last Confederate land force to “Strike the Colors.”
1931 Texas-Oklahoma aviator Wiley Post and his Australian navigator took off from Roosevelt Field, NY, to set a new round-the-world flight record
1938 – The first aquarium, Marineland, opened in Florida.
1958 – A U.S. Federal judge ruled that racial segregation must end in 2 1/2 years in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1969 Joe Frazier of Beaufort, South Carolina defeated Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title
1972 - Hurricane Agnes became America’s costliest natural disaster, $3 Billion damage to 15 states with 119 deaths
1979 – The Charlie Daniels Band released “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” The song rocketed up the country, pop, and rock charts and was the band’s first #1 hit.
2005 - Reddit was founded by University of Virginia students Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian
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