19 February 1807
On this date in 1807...
U.S. Vice-President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama for treason in a plot to steal and become dictator of a large swath of the Louisiana Purchase.
Other Years:
- 1778 - Virginia Governor Patrick Henry wrote a letter to Colonel William Fleming suggesting that the murderers of Shawnee Chief Cornstalk were British agents trying to instigate a fight with the Indians to divert Virginia troops away from the Revolutionary War.
- 1846 - Texas formally installed a state government in Austin, Texas.
- 1917 - Novelist Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia.
- 1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order that resulted in the internment of Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast. Thousands were relocated to concentration camps built in the rural South and West.
- 1950 - A ground-breaking ceremony was held for Mississippi Vocational College, which later became Mississippi Valley State University.
- 1953 - Georgia approved the first literature censorship board in the U.S.
- 1966 - Janis Joplin debuted as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company.
- 1968 - The first U.S. teachers strike started in Florida.
- 1998 - Grand Old Opry star, Louis Marshal "Grandpa" Jones died at the age of 84 from the effects of a stroke in Nashville, Tennessee.
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