30 March 2017

Florida Territory

30 March 1822  

On this date in 1822...

The U.S. Congress combined East and West Florida into Florida Territory.


Other Years:

  • 1854 - Indians successfully defeated a company of U.S. Dragoons at Cieneguilla, New Mexico.
  • 1862 - Federal troops attacked Union City, Tennessee.
  • 1863 - Federal troops and Pin Indian allies attacked the Cherokee capital at Tahlequah, Indian Territory.
  • 1870 - Texas became the last Confederate state readmitted to the union.
  • 1909 - In Oklahoma, Seminole Indians revolted against lower pay for government jobs. 
  • 1910 - The Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg.
  • 1981 - President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded were White House news secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a District of Columbia police officer.



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