1993 Event Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994 1991 Event 29th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 14 -13 at Ocean Course (SC) 1986 Death Ronald E McNair, Lake City SC, astr, dies in Challenger disaster 1961 Event "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC 1956 Event 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC 1955 Event Hurricane Connie, kills 43 in NC, SC, Virginia and Maryland 1954 Event J. S. Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC) 1923 Event Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC) 1922 Birthday Rietje [Maria SC] Lyre, Dutch twin daughter of Prince Hendrik 1915 Death Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC 1911 Death Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC 1905 Birthday Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher, 50 years in 1 room school in SC 1897 Birthday Josephine "Mama Jo" Riley Matthews, midwife, SC 1893 Event Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Georgia and Charleston SC 1886 Event 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern U.S., at Charleston SC, 110 die 1876 Event Race riot in Charleston SC 1871 Event Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC 1870 Event Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps 1870 Event Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Representatives (SC) 1868 Event Major General E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC 1865 Event Battle of Ft. Moultrie, SC 1864 Event Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC 1864 Death Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC 1863 Event After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft. Wagner, SC 1863 Event Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC 1862 Event 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC 1861 Event 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC 1857 Event 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC 1831 Event 1st U.S. railroad honeymoon trip, Mr. and Mrs. Pierson, Charleston, SC 1824 Event 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC 1780 Event British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC 1780 Death Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36 1780 Event British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC 1775 Event Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC) 1735 Event 1st opera in U.S. "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC 1733 Event James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC 1709 Event 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC 1526 Death Lucas Vazquez de Ayllo, Spanish colonialist (settles SC), dies
