Native Americans

On September 21, 1866, the 9th and 10th Cavalry units and the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st Infantry units (later consolidated as the 24th and 25th Infantry) were formed.  The units were comprised entirely of black soldiers – the first to serve in a peacetime army.  They would come to be known as Buffalo Soldiers.

On August 10, 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt used the power of the 1906 Antiquities Act to create Joshua Tree National Monument.

Civil War general and 18th US president, Ulysses S. Grant died on July 23, 1885. 

On June 3, 1770, Franciscan friar Junipero Serra delivered the first church service at the Carmel Mission.

On May 19, 1883, the first Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show opened in Omaha, Nebraska.

On April 8, 1975, an Act of Congress officially established Voyageurs National Park.

On March 29, 1638, the New Sweden Colony was established, encompassing parts of present-day Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

On March 21, 1617, the funeral of Pocahontas was held at Saint George’s, Gravesend, Kent, England.

American soldier and politician Sam Houston was born on March 2, 1793, in Rockbridge County, Virginia.