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Nov. 18, 1307 - Legend has it that on this day, William Tell
shot an apple off his son's head. He'd been ordered to do this as punishment
for disrespecting an authority figure.
Nov. 18, 1813 – The “Hillabee Massacre” occurred at
Hillabee, an important Muscogee (Creek) town in east central Alabama. During
the massacre, General James White dispatched a force of allied Cherokee under
Gideon Morgan to surround the main Hillabee town. The Hillabee, believing they
had made peace, were unprepared for an attack, and were unable to resist
Morgan's assault. The town was destroyed, 64 Hillabees were killed, and several
hundred were captured.
Nov. 18, 1853 – Iyra
H. Malden became postmaster at Burnt Corn.
Nov. 18, 1859 – At 1 p.m., brothers Irvin and Stephen Ward
were hung for the murder of Allen Page during a failed cotton wagon robbery
near Brewer Creek. A posse caught the brothers, who confessed. The posse
marched on to the place of execution where Patrick Page and William Wright
(sons of Allen Page and John Wright) adjusted the hanging nooses around the
necks of the condemned murderers. The old gallows was not removed following the
execution, and it stood for many decades as a reminder of the tragic murder at
Fork Sepulga. The location of that murder and hanging, where the old gallows
stood, known thereafter as “Gallows Hollow,” was located on the road that
turned south from the Federal road near Cokersville (Activity) and led past the
Sepulga community through Sparta Station.
Nov. 18, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln boarded a train for
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to deliver a short speech at the dedication of a
cemetery of soldiers killed during the battle there on July 1-3, 1863. The
address Lincoln gave in Gettysburg became one of the most famous speeches in American
history.
Nov. 18, 1871 – W.B.
Kemp was commissioned as Monroe County’s Sheriff.
Nov. 18, 1889 – The
trial of State of Alabama vs. I.S. Lambert was held in Monroe County Circuit
Court. Lambert was charged with assault with intent to murder T.D. Hestle. Lambert
was represented by attorneys D.L. Neville of Monroeville and G.L. Smith of
Mobile and he pleaded insanity. The case “attracted wide interest and a
large audience of spectators,” and the entire day was “consumed in the
examination of the witnesses, of whom there were about 40, after which the
court adjourned until the following morning, when the case was argued with much
ability on both sides. The plea of the defense was insanity and was most ably
and eloquently argued by Col. D.L. Neville of our local bar and G.L. Smith,
esq., of Mobile. The jury sustained the plea and the defendant was sent to the
insane asylum in compliance with the provisions of an act passed by the last
legislature, bearing on cases of that character.”
Nov. 18, 1903 - The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed by
the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over
the Panama Canal Zone and allowing them to build the Panama Canal.
Nov. 18, 1941 – In Conecuh County Circuit Court, Alvin
Wilkinson faced charges of first-degree murder in connection with the killing
of his mother-in-law, Josephine Zellers, in July 1939.
Nov. 18, 1943 - Philadelphia Phillies President William Cox
was banned from baseball for betting on his team.
Nov. 18, 1949 - Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers was
named the National League’s Most Valuable Player.
Nov. 18, 1951 - Chuck Connors of the Los Angeles Angels
became the first player to oppose the major league draft. Connors later became
the star of the television show "The Rifleman."
Nov. 18, 1956 – NFL quarterback Warren Moon was born in Los
Angeles, Calif. He would go on to play for the Houston Oilers, the Minnesota
Vikings, the Seattle Seahawks and the Kansas City Chiefs.
Nov. 18, 1966 - Sandy Koufax, the ace pitcher for the Los
Angeles Dodgers, retired from baseball. He was just 30 years old, and he was
retiring after a great season - he’d led the Dodgers to a National League
pennant and won his third Cy Young award. But he had chronic arthritis in his
pitching arm, and he was afraid that if he kept playing baseball, eventually he
wouldn’t be able to use his left hand at all.
Nov. 18, 1977 – In the second round of the Class 1A state
playoffs, Repton High School saw its season come to an end with a 27-13 loss to
Brantley in Brantley. Repton finished the season 10-1-1.
Nov. 18, 1978 –
Millie Steans Cunningham, a native of Evergreen, died in the infamous massacre
and mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, South America. Was buried at First Zion
Church Cemetery in Conecuh County on April 20, 1979. Cunningham was among the
more than 900 people who died at Jonestown after Jim Jones led his Peoples
Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, including 270
children.
Nov. 18, 1984
- The television program “Inside the Closet,”
teleplay by Alabama author Robert McDowell, is broadcast as part of the “Tales from the Darkside” series.
Nov. 18, 1985 - Joe Theismann of the Washington Redskins
broke his leg after being hit by Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants. The
injury ended Theismann's 12 year NFL career.
Nov. 18, 1996 - Chris Boniol of the Dallas Cowboys tied an
NFL record when he kicked seven field goals against the Green Bay Packers.
Nov. 18, 1997 - The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay
Devil Rays participated in their initial expansion draft.
Nov. 18, 2011 – The “Mystery Booms” first widely reported in
Monroe and Conecuh counties.
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