Yorktown Siege Begins – Today In Southern History

Sep 28, 2025

The Continental Army under General George Washington began the siege of Lord Cornwallis’s British troops at Yorktown, Virginia.

1528 – A Spanish fleet sank in a Florida hurricane drowning about 380 victims.
1787 – The U.S. Congress voted to send the new Constitution of the United States to the state legislatures for their approval.
1789 – In the U.S., the first Federal Congress passed a resolution that asked President George Washington to recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. Several days later Washington issued a proclamation that named Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a “Day of Publick Thanksgiving.”
1912 – W.C. Handy’s “Memphis Blues” was published.
1967 – The first mayor of Washington, DC, Walter Washington, took office.
1968 – The Atlanta Chiefs won the first North American Soccer League Championship/
2000 – The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States to induce abortion.

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