1958 Birthday Tanya Tucker, Seminole, Texas, country singer and actress, Follow that Car 1948 Birthday Larry Gatlin, Seminole, Texas, country singer, Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady 1933 Event -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Seminole, Texas (state record) 1842 Event Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma 1838 Death Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail 1837 Event Battle of Okeechobee-U.S. forces defeat Seminole Indians 1835 Event 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola 1818 Event General Andrew Jackson conquers St. Marks Florida from Seminole indians 1817 Event U.S. soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War 1817 Event 1st Seminole War begins in Florida 1816 Event U.S. troops destroy Ft. Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
