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| Repton Masonic Lodge No. 575 |
Dec. 3, 1818 - Illinois was
admitted as the 21st state of the union.
Dec. 3, 1821 – Town of Sparta
incorporated by the Alabama legislature.
Dec. 3, 1826 - Union General George
McClellan was born in Philadelphia.
Dec. 3, 1828 - Andrew Jackson was
elected president of the United States.
Dec. 3, 1864 – Newton, Ala.
Methodist minister William “Bill” Sketoe Sr. was lynched in Newton, and his lynching
gave birth to one of Alabama's best-known ghost stories, the “Legend of Sketoe’s
Hole.” (13 Alabama Ghosts)
Dec. 3, 1856 – The organizational
charter was issued to Fairmount Masonic Lodge No. 238 in Red Level, Ala.
(Covington Co.)
Dec. 3, 1898 – The Duquesne Country
and Athletic Club defeated an all-star collection of early football players,
16-0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional
American football.
Dec. 3, 1902 – The organizational
charters were issued to Repton Masonic Lodge No. 575 and Blacksher Masoic Lodge
No. 592 at Uriah, Ala.
Dec. 3, 1912 – The organizational
charter was issued to North Creek Masonic Lodge No. 746 in Florala, Ala.
Dec. 3, 1919 – H.P. Lovecraft
completed “The Doom That Came to Sarnath,” which was originally published in
Issue No. 44 of “The Scot” in June 1920.
Dec. 3, 1924 – Dr. John Johnathan
Dailey of Tunnel Springs, Ala. married Ethel Busey in Monroeville, Ala.
Dec. 3, 1928 – Walter Eugene “Gene”
Garrett of Uriah was born. He would go on to graduate from Marion Institute in
1947 and from the University of Alabama in 1953. He received his law degree
from Alabama in 1953 and went on to serve as a state legislator, special judge
and member of the Alabama Constitution Revision Committee. In 1963, he
purchased the historic King Plantation House at Packer’s Bend and moved it
board by board to Uriah.
Dec. 3, 1931 – H.P. Lovecraft
completed “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” which was originally published in 1936’s
“The Shadow Over Innsmouth.”
Dec. 3, 1947 - The Tennessee
Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opened at Broadway's Ethel
Barrymore Theater.
Dec. 3, 1949 – Evergreen native
Andrew collapsed and died during the Alabama-Auburn football game at Legion
Field Stadium.
Dec. 3, 1950 - Paul Harvey began
his national radio broadcast.
Dec. 3, 1950 - Tom Fears of the Los
Angeles Rams caught an NFL-record 18 passes against the Green Bay Packers.
Terrell Owens (San Francisco 49ers) broke the record with 20 catches for 283
yards and a touchdown against the Chicago Bears on Dec. 17, 2000.
Dec. 3, 1953 – The Martin Theatres
Football Trophies were to be awarded to the top players on Evergreen’s varsity
and junior varsity teams during an award presentation ceremony at Evergreen’s
Pix Theatre at 8 p.m. The awards were selected based on ballots cast by fans at
the theater, and Pix manager Gladys Barron was to present the trophies on
stage.
Dec. 3, 1961 - George Blanda of the
Houston Oilers kicked a 55-yard field goal.
Dec. 3, 1968 - The rules committee
of Major League Baseball announced that in 1969 the pitcher's mound would be
lowered from 15 to 10 inches. This was done in order to "get more batting
action." The strike zone was also reduced from the knees to the shoulders
to the top of the knees to the armpits.
Dec. 3, 1976 – Monroe Academy
senior offensive guard and defensive tackle Bobo Jay played in the first ever
Alabama Private School All-Star Game, which was played at Fort Dale Academy in
Greenville.
Dec. 3, 1976, Bob Marley survived
an assassination attempt two days before the "Smile Jamaica" concert
aimed at restoring peace amongst warring political factions. Despite fear of a
follow-up attack, he would go on to play the concert for a crowd of over 80,000
people. When asked why he was going forward with the concert, Marley famously
replied "the people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking
a day off. How can I?"
Dec. 3, 1983 – Castleberry’s annual
Christmas parade was scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m.
Dec. 3, 1988 - Barry Sanders of
Oklahoma State University won the Heisman Trophy.
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