The Mason-Dixon Line

18 October 1767 

One of the original Mason-Dixon Line Markers

On this date in 1767...

Maryland and Pennsylvania agree on the Mason-Dixon Line as their boundary.

Other Years:

• 1676 - Nathaniel Bacon, leader of a rebellion against Virginia's colonial government was killed at the age of 29.
• 1862 - Confederate General John H. Morgan's cavalry seized Lexington, Kentucky.
• 1927 - George C. Scott, American actor/director famous for Patton and Dr. Strangelove was born in Wise, Virginia.
• 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of Pesident John F. Kennedy, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 1954 - Texas Instruments Inc. announced the first transistor radio.
• 1997 - A monument honoring U.S. servicewomen, past and present, was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.

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