The Tomb of the Unknowns – Today In Southern History
30 May 1958
On this date in 1958…
Unidentified American soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
Other Years:
1539 - Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto’s expedition of 10 ships and 700 men landed in Florida.
1806 - Andrew Jackson killed Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson accused Jackson’s wife of bigamy.
1848 – Mexico ratified the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo giving the U.S. ownership of New Mexico, California, parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado in return for $15 million.
1854 – The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and set off the Kansas-Missouri border war.
1868 “Decoration Day,” later called Memorial Day, is first observed in Northern states after already becoming a Southern observance
1934 – The U.S. Congress established the Everglades National Park in Florida.
1965 – Vivian Malone became the first black student to graduate from the University of Alabama.
2019 - Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed new fetal heartbeat law, making it the fifth southern US state to ban abortion when fetal heartbeat detected.
2022 - Frontier becomes the world’s fastest supercomputer and first exascale computer at US’s Oak Ridge Tennessee National Laboratory.
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