September 13
Today in America's Present Past
1663 | Civil Rights: Gloucester County (Virginia) Conspiracy.
1723 | Comte de Grasse, who commanded the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake, beating the British to help seal victory in the War of Independence, was born.
1755 | Inventor Oliver Evans was born.
1766 | Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of “Uncle Sam,” was born.
1781 | Indian Wars: Long Run massacre.
1789 | The current U.S. federal government takes out its first loan (from NYC banks).
1803 | Commodore John Barry died.
1810 | SCOTUS: Justice William Cushing died.
1847 | Mexican-American War: U.S. General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
1851 | Surgeon Walter Reed was born.
1857 | Entrepreneur Milton S. Hershey was born.
1850 | General John J. Pershing is born.
1861 | Civil War: In the first naval battle, the Union frigate “Colorado” sinks the Confederate “Judah” off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.
1876 | Author Sherwood Anderson was born.
1881 | Lewis Howard Latimer patents an electric lamp with a carbon filament.
1881 | Soldier and politician Ambrose Burnside died.
1886 | Academic Alain LeRoy Locke is born.
1900 | Philippine-American War: Filipino resistance fighters defeat U.S. forces at the Battle of Pulang Lupa.
1903 | Actress Claudette Colbert was born.
1922 | Civil Rights: Straw Hat Riot starts in New York City.
1925 | Xavier University opens in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1948 | Civil Rights: Margaret Chase Smith elected Senator, the first woman to serve in both chambers of Congress.
1950 | Climber and entrepreneur Jeff Lowe was born.
1967 | Journalist Varian Fry died.
1969 | Actor and Director Tyler Perry was born.
1969 | TV: “Scooby Doo Where Are You” debuted.
1971 | Poet Paul Blackburn died.
1981 | Publisher William Loeb III died.
1990 | TV: “Law & Order” debuted.
1996 | Historian Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl died.
1996 | Tupac died.
1998 | Politician George Wallace died.
2022 | Lawyer Ken Starr died.