27 June 1974
On this date in 1874...
A Comanche war party attacked a group of twenty-eight buffalo hunters, including Bat Masterson, in what is now Hutchinson County, Texas. The buffalo hunters' deadly long-range fire successfully held off Chief Quanah Parker and a band of more than 300 warriors in what became known as the Second Battle of Adobe Walls.
Other Years:
- 1829 - English scientist James Smithson died, leaving an endowment to the U.S. Government to further the knowledge of natural sciences.
- 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution was established at Washington D.C. by an act of the U.S. Congress.
- 1862 - The Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia.
- 1864 - Army of Tennessee Confederates under General Joseph Johnston decimated the federal troops of General William TecumsehSherman at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia
- 1957 - Hurricane Audrey killed 526 people in Louisiana and Texas.
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