Events:
1862 - Stonewall Jackson led the Confederates to victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1813 - The Creek War began when Indians led by Chief Red Eagle killed half the people in Fort Mims and burned many others.
1892 - Cholera arrived in America aboard the liner Moravia
1967 - The Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
1983 - Lt. Colonel Guion Bluford was the first African-American astronaut to enter space on the space shuttle Challenger.
Births:
1918 - Ted Williams born
Deaths:
1879 - John B Hood
1930 - William Howard Taft
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