17 July 1863
On this date in 1863...
Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's cavalry raided Cincinnati,Ohio and eastward toward the Ohio River.
Other Years:
- 1673 - Frenchmen Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette, on an expedition to explore the Mississippi River reached the mouth of the Arkansas River. To avoid a confrontation with the Spanish they ended their expedition and returned north.
- 1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the U.S.
- 1979 - Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza fled to exile in Miami, Florida.
- 2012 - Seventeen people were wounded by a shooting in a Tuscaloosa, Alabama bar.
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