1. In 1780, during the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Williamson's Plantation took place near present-day Blackstock. The Loyalist forces of British Major John Carden defeated a larger force of Patriot militia, but Carden was later killed in a skirmish.

2. In 1804, the first recorded baseball game played in South Carolina occurred in Charleston. The game was organized by Alexander Garden, and the teams represented the "Mechanics" and the "Baseballs."

3. In 1859, the South Carolina Institute Agricultural Fair was chartered in Columbia. The fair, which continues to this day as the South Carolina State Fair, was designed to promote agriculture and industry in the state.

4. In 1928, the S.S. Morro Castle, a passenger ship traveling from Havana to New York, caught fire off the coast of Asbury Park, New Jersey. Among the 137 people who died in the disaster were four South Carolinians, including U.S. Senator Ellison Durant Smith.

5. In 1978, the Carolina Panthers football team was officially announced as an expansion team in the National Football League. However, the team did not begin playing until 1995 and was based in Charlotte, North Carolina, rather than South Carolina.