Today in Nashville History

June 18th – June 24th

June 18th
World's 1st airmail is flown from Nashville to Gallatin via balloon on June 18th 1877.

June 19th
Local Politician, James Hayes Shofner Cooper, also known as Jim Cooper was born in Nashville on June 19, 1954.

June 20th
-In 2008, Nashville Native, Philanthropist, and local businessman, Monroe J. Carell Jr. died of cancer today in his Nashville home at the age of 76.
-Actor, Chuck Wagner was born in Nashville on June 20th, 1958.

June 21st
The new Suspension Bridge, destroyed in the early part of the civil war, was completed June 21st, 1866. The Woodland Street Bridge later replaced it, but not completely as a few of the original two abutments are still in place.

June 22nd
Nashville's second skyscraper, the Stahlman Building opened on June 22, 1907 and was designed by James E.R. Carpenter.

June 23rd
-Wilma Rudolph was born today in 1940, she would later become, in 1960, the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in the Olympics. She won the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, and ran the anchor on the 400-meter relay team.
-June Carter Cash is born June 23rd, 1929.

June 24th
The east wing of the Penitentiary was burned on June 24th, 1867 following a mutiny which had occurred less than a month earlier.

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