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.
- 1933 - Wiley Post of Texas became the first person to fly solo around the world, traveling 15,596 miles in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
- 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that provided for 2 acres of land near the Lincoln Memorial for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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