Smith Leads Jamestown

10 September 1608 

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On this date in 1608...

Pocahontas Saves John Smith 

In 1608, explorer, adventurer, writer, and map-maker John Smith assumed the presidency of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.

Other Years:

• 1836 - Confederate and later U.S. General Joseph "fighting Joe" Wheeler was born in Augusta, Georgia.
• 1861 - Battle of  Cheat Mountain began near Elkwater in what is now West Virginia.
• 1919 - The sixth strongest hurricane to strike North America made landfall at Key West and killed 772 victims as it raked Florida and later hit the Texas coast.  
• 1935 - "The Kingfish," Huey P. Long died of wounds caused by an assassin.  Long is buried on the Louisiana capitol grounds.
• 1963 -  Twenty black students entered Alabama public schools.

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