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| Baseball great Virgil Trucks. |
Aug. 24, 1798 – Asa Johnston, who arrived in Conecuh County
1818 as one of its original pioneers, was born in Bibb County, Ga.
Aug. 24, 1813 – General Ferdinand Claiborne led about 80 men
to reinforce Fort Easley at Wood’s Bluff on the Tombigbee River in present-day
Clarke County, writing that if the Creeks attacked there he would “give a good
account of them.”
Aug. 24, 1825 – Jessee C. Farrar was commissioned as Monroe
County’s Sheriff.
Aug. 24, 1828 - Confederate General George Hume
"Maryland" Steuart was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
Aug. 24, 1862 – During the Civil War, the CSS Alabama was
officially commissioned off the island of Terceira, Azores, to begin a two-year
career of plundering US merchant vessels.
Aug. 24, 1863 – During the Civil War, a skirmish occurred at
Gunter’s Landing, near Port Deposit, Alabama.
Aug. 24, 1911 – Monroeville was awarded the County High
School by unanimous vote of the state high school commission.
Aug. 24, 1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly
across the U.S. non-stop. The trip from Los Angeles, Calif. to Newark, N.J.,
took about 19 hours.
Aug. 24, 1938 - Virgil Trucks struck out his 418th batter,
highest season total in organized ball, for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida
League game.
Aug. 24, 1960 – Baseball hall of famer Cal Ripken, Jr. was
born in Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Aug. 24, 1975 - Davey Lopes of the Los Angeles Dodgers set a
major league baseball record when he stole his 38th consecutive base.
Aug. 24, 1989 - Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati
Reds, was banned from baseball for life after being accused of gambling on
baseball.
Aug. 24, 1998 – Country comedian Jerry Clower passed away at
the age of 71 following heart bypass surgery in Jackson, Miss.
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