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Cumberland


1946 Roger Jett, Cumberland Maryland, actor, Smithereens

1942 Greg Ridley, born in Cumberland, England, rock, bass guitarist, played for Humble Pie and Spooky Tooth, popular double album Performance Rockin' the Fillmore

1936 109 degrees F (43 degrees C) Cumberland and Frederick, Maryland (state record)

1916 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech and Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee

1863 Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN

1862 Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals

1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor

1851 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80

1771 Dorothy Wordsworth, born in Cumberland, England, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet

1771 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover, 1837-51

1765 Duke of Cumberland, English politician/uncle of George III, dies

1765 William August duke of Cumberland, English supreme commander, dies at 44

1757 Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats duke of Cumberland

1746 Battle at Culloden Moor: Duke of Cumberland beats "James VIII and III"

1746 Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen

1721 William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader


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