Historical marker about Geronimo in Mt. Vernon, Ala. |
Sept. 4, 1824 – During his tour of the United States, the
Marquis de Lafayette visited Hartford, Conn. and Middletown, Conn.
Sept. 4, 1843 – William F. Saunders was commissioned as
Monroe County, Alabama’s Sheriff.
Sept. 4-9, 1862 – During the Civil War, Confederate General
Robert E. Lee invaded the North with 50,000 troops and moved toward Harpers
Ferry. Union General George B. McClellan pursued Lee with 90,000 troops.
Sept. 4, 1863 – During the Civil War, Rear Admiral John
Dahlgren began an attack aimed at capturing Charleston. The Confederates
evacuated Batter Wagner and Morris Island, S.C., two days later.
Sept. 4, 1863 – General William Rosecrans’ Union Army of the
Cumberland crossed the Tennessee River today at Bridgeport, Ala., and
Shellmound, Tenn.
Sept. 4, 1864 – During the Civil War, John Hunt Morgan, the
feared Confederate cavalry leader and 39-year-old Alabama native, was shot and
killed during a Union cavalry raid on the town of Greenville, Tennessee.
Sept. 4, 1886 - Geronimo, and the Apache Indians he led,
surrendered in Skeleton Canyon in Arizona to General Nelson Miles. Geronimo and
his band of Apaches were sent to Florida and then to Mount Vernon, Ala. before
eventually ending up at the Comanche and Kiowa reservation near Fort Sill in
the Oklahoma Territory.
Sept. 4, 1940 – Monroe County voters voted in a referendum
to become a dry county. At the time, it was one of 24 counties operating with
state liquor stores and licensed sales of alcohol under the Alabama ABC law.
Sept. 4-21, 1947 - In Florida, Louisianna, Mississipi and
Alabama, 51 people were killed in a hurricane.
Sept. 4, 1951 – Army Pvt. William E. Watson of Wilcox County
was killed in action in Korea.
Sept. 4, 1951 - Alabama lawmakers passed legislation
requiring a new look for the state's license plates. Beginning in October 1954,
tags were to carry an image of a heart and the phrase, "Heart of
Dixie," a slogan that had been used for several years by the Alabama State
Chamber of Commerce to promote the state.
Sept. 4, 1953 - The New York Yankees became the first
baseball team to win five consecutive American League championships.
Sept. 4, 1964 – In the first year that preseason high school
football jamborees were allowed in Alabama, Evergreen High School hosted a
jamboree on this date that included Evergreen, Lyeffion, Frisco City and W.S.
Neal. They played four, 10-minutes quarters will teams changing at the end of
each quarter.
Sept. 4, 1968 – Major League Baseball catcher Mike Piazza
was born in Norristown, Pa.
Sept. 4, 1970 – Monroe Academy played its first official
football game, beating South Choctaw, 54-0, in Monroeville.
Sept. 4, 1986 – Eighteen locations in Greenville, Ala. were
added to the National Register of Historic Places. Those locations included the
Buell-Stallings-Stewart House on Fort Dale Street, the W.S. Blackwell House on
Fort Dale Street; the Butler Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church on Oglesby Street,
Confederate Park, the Dickenson House on South Conecuh Street, the
Evens-McMullan House on Bolling Street, the First Baptist Church of Greenville,
the First Presbyterian Church of Greenville, the Gaston-Perdue House on Cedar
Street, the Graydon House on Cedar Street, the Greenville Public School
Complex, the Hawthorne-Cowart House on Bolling Street, the Hinson House on
Oliver Street, the Lane-Kendrick-Sherling House on Fort Dale Street, the
McMullan-Skinner House on Oliver Street, the Theological Building-A.M.E. Zion
Theological Institute on Conecuh Street, the Ward Nicholson Corner Store on
West Parmer Street and the Wright-Kilgore House on Walnut Street.
Sept. 4, 1987 – Hugh Wilson, in his 13th year as Repton head
football coach, collected his 100th win at Repton with a 24-12 win over Conecuh
County High School in Repton. That was his 151st win overall in 25 years as a
head football coach.
Sept. 4, 1992 – The John W. Howard House and Outbuildings on
State Route 10 East in Greenville added to National Register of Historic
Places.
Sept. 4, 1993 - Jim Abbott of the New York Yankees, who was
born without a right hand, pitched a no-hitter.
Sept. 4, 1998 – J.U. Blacksher’s football field was
dedicated in honor of former head football coach and principal John M. Sawyer.
The field is now known as the John Sawyer Memorial Field.
Sept. 4, 2002 - The Oakland Athletics won their American
League-record 20th straight game. The A's gave up an 11-run lead during the
game and then won the game on a Scott Hatteberg home run in the bottom of the
ninth inning.
Sept. 4, 2002 - St. Louis manager Tony La Russa got his
1,905th major league win, tying Casey Stengal for eighth place on the all-time
list.
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