21 January 2017

Jackson’s Birthday

21 January 1824 

On this date in 1824...

Confederate General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was born in Clarksburg, Virginia.

Other Years:

  • 1698 - French missionary Father de Montigny reached the Tensas Indian village on the Mississippi River in Louisiana and stayed with them to instruct them in Catholic Christianity.
  • 1789 - Georgetown College was established as the first Catholic college in the U.S. in Washington, DC.
  • 1861 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resigned after their states seceded.
  • 1880 - Memphis, Tennessee started operation of the first sewage disposal system separate from storm drains in the U.S. designed George E. Waring,Jr.
  • 1987 - B.B. King donated his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi.
  • 1997 - A judge in Fairfax, Virginia sentenced Mir Aimal Kasi to death for an attack outside the CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded three other people. 



Read: Why Know Southern History?


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