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1954 Birthday - Rob Crosby, born in Sumter, South Carolina, country singer, She's a Natural

1940 Birthday - Jim Clyburn, born in Sumter, South Carolina, Representative-D-South Carolina 1993 -

1940 Birthday - Joseph L. Goldstein, born in Sumter, South Carolina, physician, Nobel-1985

1930 Birthday - James Gathers, Sumter, South Carolina, 200m runner 1952 Olympics bronze

1925 Birthday - Virginia Capers, Sumter, South Carolina, actress, White Mama, Original Intent

1925 Birthday - Billy Pinkney, Sumter, South Carolina, rock bassist/vocalist, Drifters

1863 Event - Federal batteries and ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC

1863 Event - Battle of Charleston, South Carolina, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter

1861 Event - CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade

1861 Event - Formal Union surrender of Ft. Sumter

1861 Event - After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft. Sumter surrenders to Confederates

1861 Event - Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War

1861 Event - 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC

1861 Event - 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft. Sumter

1860 Event - Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft. Sumter

1818 Birthday - Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, U.S. Confederate gen, Hero of Sumter

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