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Alex Haley House and Museum State Historic Site is one of the Tennessee Historical Commission's state-owned historic sites and is located in Henning, Tennessee, United States. It is open to the public and partially funded by an agreement with the Tennessee Historical Commission.
Erle P. Halliburton, the founder of Halliburton Company (the world's second largest oil field service company), was born in Henning. Alex Haley, author, best known for Roots, winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and acclaimed television miniseries; Henning was his boyhood home; Jim Hickman, Major League Baseball outfielder, 1962–74
December 23-25 – A tornado outbreak kills several people around Hardeman and Perry counties. 2016 November 28-December 9 – Wildfires in the Great Smoky Mountains , particularly in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg , leave 14 dead, 190 injured, and 17,900 acres burned, as one of the most destructive modern wildfires in the Eastern United States .
By the time the games were over, the top thirteen crowds in U.S. history for women's soccer included 76,489 for the final (which was not broadcast on national television). Women's soccer began attracting more national attention after the Olympics, and Mia Hamm became the face of the sport.
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the town of Henning, Tennessee. Pages in category "People from Henning, Tennessee" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Juventus becomes the first team in Italian football history to win 5 national titles in a row. 1936 in football; Italy wins gold at the Olympics in Berlin and joins Uruguay to become Olympic and World champion. 1937 in football; The largest football crowd was recorded, 149,415 people turned up at Hampden Park, Glasgow, to see Scotland play ...
The history of association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, stretches back to at least medieval times. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] FIFA cites Cuju in ancient China is the earliest form of a kicking game for which there is scientific evidence, a military manual from the Han dynasty , and it closely resembles modern association football.