1 July 1941
On this date in 1941...
The U.S. Congress established the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.
Other Years:
- 1861 - The U.S. War Department decreed that Kansas and Tennessee were to be scoured for “volunteers” to bolster the federal army.
- 1862 - The Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia.
- 1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania began when Confederate troops searching for shoes and other needed desperately supplies collided with federal cavalry.
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