Portal:Tennessee/Selected anniversaries/July

July 2, 1791 - William Blount, governor of the Territory of the United States south of the River Ohio, and representatives of the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of Holston.
July 5, 1801 - David Farragut, the first Admiral of the U.S.Navy, was born at Campbell's Station, Tennessee (now in the town of Farragut).
July 8, 1797 - William Blount was expelled from the U.S. Senate, having been impeached the previous day by the U.S. House of Representatives.
July 9, 1918 - The Great Train Wreck of 1918, a head-on collision in Nashville of two passenger trains, killed 101 people and injured 171.
July 10-21, 1925 - The Scopes Trial, which pitted the scientific theory of evolution against Biblical creationism, focused the world's attention on Dayton, Tennessee.
July 13, 1821 - Birth in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, of Nathan Bedford Forrest, controversial Confederate Army general.
July 25, 1927 - The first day of recording in the Bristol sessions, considered to be the "Big Bang" of modern country music.