Virginia Statehood – Today In Southern History
25 June 1788
On this date in 1788…
The Commonwealth of Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution against Patrick Henry’s advice and became the 10th U.S. state.
Other Years:
1528 – Spanish Adventurer Pánfilo de Narváez and his expedition crossed the Suwannee River to occupy a village of forty houses they called Apalachen, in Florida where they remained for a month, fighting frequently with local Indians.
1862 – The Seven Days Battles opened with Battle of King’s School House, Virginia.
1864 – Federal troops surrounding Petersburg, Virgina, began building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
1868 – Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1913 - American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913 in Gettysburg, PA
1941 James F. Byrnes of Charleston, South Carolina was admitted to the US Supreme Court
1962 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
1977 - Retired Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time and entered the Guinness Book of World records
1985 - A fireworks factory near Hallett, Oklahoma exploded, killing 21
2008 – An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which ended in the gunman’s suicide at Atlantis Plastics in Henderson, Kentucky.
2020 - Country music band “The Dixie Chicks” change their name to “The Chicks” to remove connotations of Confederate history and effectively end their career
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