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| William McIntosh |
Nov. 29, 1813 – During the War of 1812, the Battle of
Autosse took place at the Indian village of Autosse, on the southern bank of
the Tallapoosa River, 20 miles above its junction with the Coosa River in
Alabama. The battle lasted about two hours and was won by an American force of
about 950 Georgia militia led by American Brigadier General John Floyd and 400
friendly Creeks led by William McIntosh and the son of Mad Dog. During the raid,
over 200 hostile Creeks were killed and 400 dwellings were destroyed at the
cost to Floyd of 11 killed and 54 wounded.
Nov. 29, 1862 - During the Civil War, John Palmer and John Scholfield were
promoted to major general for the Union army.
Nov. 29, 1864 – In what is now known as the “Sand Creek
Massacre,” Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacred at
least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants at Sand Creek inside the Colorado
Territory.
Nov. 29, 1864
– During the Battle of Spring Hill, a Confederate advance into Tennessee missed
an opportunity to crush the Union Army. General John Bell Hood, who approached
Franklin, Tenn. on this day, was angered, which led to the Battle of Franklin
the following day when Hood attacked troops under John Scholfield.
Nov. 29, 1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the
first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY.
Nov. 29, 1902 - The New York Medical Record published an
account of Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performing the first open heart surgery in
the western hemisphere when he sutured a knife wound in a young boy’s heart. Dr.
Hill was the father of Alabama politician and U.S. senator Lister Hill.
Nov. 29, 1902 – The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the
Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first
championship associated with an American national professional football league.
Nov. 29, 1918 – During World War I, Army Pvt. Lee Montgomery
of Beatrice, Ala. “died from disease.”
Nov. 29, 1946 – Thomas Charles Littles was born in Brewton, Ala.
He would be fatally wounded during the Vietnam War.
Nov. 29, 1961 – During Project Mercury’s Mercury-Atlas V
Mission, Enos, a chimpanzee, was launched into space aboard the
Mercury-Atlantis V. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashed down off
the coast of Puerto Rico.
Nov. 29, 1962 - Major league baseball decided to return to
only one All-Star Game a year beginning in 1963.
Nov. 29, 1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson established
the Warren Commission, headed by Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy.
Nov. 29, 1980 - "Monday Night Football" was on the
cover of TV Guide.
Nov. 29, 1987 - Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers
completed a record 22 consecutive passes.
Nov. 29, 1987 - Venice Glenn of the San Diego Chargers ran
back an interception for 103 yards. It was an NFL record.
Nov. 29, 1990 - The United Nations Security Council
authorized the use of "all means necessary" to remove Saddam
Hussein's forces from Kuwait, giving Iraq the deadline of midnight on January
16, 1991, to leave or risk forcible removal.
Nov. 29, 1991 - The worst US highway mishap took place in
which a zero visibility dust storm caused 33 accidents, involving 164 vehicles
near Kern County, Calif.
Nov. 29, 1992 - Dennis Byrd of the New York Jets was
paralyzed after a neck injury in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Nov. 29, 1992 - Jerry Rice caught his 100th NFL touchdown
pass.
Nov. 29, 1997 - Grambling State University football coach
Eddie Robinson coached his last college football game as Grambling’s Tigers
played the Southern University Jaguars at the Superdome in New Orleans.
Southern won, 30-7. Robinson had been coaching at Grambling, a historically
black college near Shreveport, for 55 seasons.
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