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| Confederate General Ben McCulloch |
Nov. 11, 1774 – William Lawrence Locklin was born in
Milledgeville in Baldwin County, Ga., where he learned to build cotton gins. He
moved to Fort Claiborne, Ala. in 1812 and established Alabama’s first cotton
gin there in 1817.
Nov. 11, 1811 - Confederate General Ben McCulloch was born
near Rutherford City, Tennessee.
Nov. 11, 1823 – Harry Toulmin passed away at his plantation
at Fort Stoddert at the age of 57. Born in Taunton, Somersetshire, England on
April 7, 1766, he succeeded Ephraim Kirby as Superior Court Judge for the
Tombigbee District of the Mississippi Territory when Kirby died at Fort
Stoddert in 1804. Toulmin assumed the role of first postmaster in January 1805.
Nov. 11, 1864 – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman began
burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
Nov. 11, 1864 – During the Civil War, a skirmish occurred at
Shoal Creek, Ala.
Nov. (10) 11, 1866 – Conecuh County Courthouse at Sparta
burned down.
Nov. 11, 1884 – The Monroe County Jail in Monroeville, Ala.
caught fire around midnight, burning everything but the bare walls. All
prisoners safely removed.
Nov. 11, 1889 – Monroe County Circuit Court convened at 12
p.m. in Monroeville. It adjourned on Nov. 19.
Nov. 11, 1892 – T.J. Emmons commissioned as Monroe County’s
Circuit Court Clerk.
Nov. 11, 1892 – The University of Alabama played the first
football game in its history, a 56-0 win over Birmingham High School at
Lakeview Park in Birmingham.
Nov. 11, 1901 - Alabama's 1901 Constitution was
ratified by statewide vote in an election fraught with corruption.
Following the trend of other southern states in this period, Alabama used the
constitution to effectively disfranchise blacks and poor whites. With hundreds
of amendments, the 1901 Constitution carries the distinction of being
twice as long as the constitution of any other state.
Nov. 11, 1911 - The “Great Blue Norther of 11/11/11” struck
the central United States - a dramatic cold snap brought in by a powerful storm
system that swept away warm, humid air with frigid arctic air. Many Midwestern
cities broke record highs and lows on the same day. In Springfield, Mo. it went
from 80 to 40 °F within two hours. Oklahoma City had a high of of 83°F and a
low of 17°F.
Nov. 11, 1918 – On the day World War I officially ended,
Army soldier Jesse James Leonard of Opp, Army Cpl. George K. Ealum of McKenzie
and Army Pvt. Louis Hayles of Eliska were killed in action.
Nov. 11, 1918 – World War I ended. More than two million American
soldiers had served on the battlefields of Western Europe, and more than 50,000
of these men had lost their lives.
Nov. 11, 1921 – First ever football game between Jones Mill
and Excel is believed to have been played on this day in Frisco City. It was
Jones Mill’s first game ever, and they won, 26-0.
Nov. 11, 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns was dedicated by US
President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Nov. 11, 1963 – Lyeffion’s Donald Garrett appeared in Sports
Illustrated.
Nov. 11, 1971 – A Veterans Day Parade was held in downtown
Evergreen. The parade was followed by a program in No Man’s Land that featured
a speech by State Auditor Melba Till Allen.
Nov. 11, 1981 - Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles
Dodgers became the first pitcher to win Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young
Award in the same season.
Nov. 11, 1984 - The Houston Oilers ended their streak of 23
consecutive road losses when they beat Kansas City 17-16.
Nov. 11, 1990 - Derrick Thomas of the Kansas City Chiefs set
an NFL record when he had seven sacks in a game against the Seahawks.
Nov. 11, 1997 - Roger Clemens of the Toronto Blue Jays
became the third major league player to win the Cy Young Award four times.
Nov. 11, 1999 - The Greek ship HS Leon (D-54), formerly the
USS Eldridge, was sold for scrap to the Piraeus-based firm V&J Scrapmetal
Trading Ltd.
Nov. 11, 2002 - Barry Bonds became the first major league
baseball player to win the leagues Most Valuable Player title five times.
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