Saturday, January 10, 2015

Today in History for Jan. 10, 2015

Jan. 10, 1775 – William Rabb Sr., who settled in Conecuh County, Ala. in 1819, was born in Fairfield District, South Carolina. He was one of Conecuh County’s first store owners and farmers.

Jan. 10, 1842 – Thomas Hill Watts of Butler County, Ala., who would eventually become Alabama’s governor, married Eliza B. Allen, the daughter of Wade Allen, Esq., then a prominent and wealthy citizen of Montgomery, Ala.

Jan. 10, 1843 – Alexander Franklin “Frank” James was born in Clay County, Missouri. He grew up to become a Confederate soldier, guerrilla and outlaw. He was the older brother of outlaw Jesse James and was also part of the James–Younger Gang.

Jan. 10, 1861 - Florida became the third state to secede from the Union when a state convention voted 62 to 7 in favor of the measure. U.S. troops are transferred from Barrancas Barracks to Fort Pickens, Santa Rosa Island, Pensacola, Fla.

Jan. 10, 1861 - William Seward accepted President-elect Abraham Lincoln's invitation to become Secretary of State. Seward became one of the most important members of Lincoln's cabinet and engineered the purchase of Alaska after the Civil War.

Jan. 10, 1863 - Union Admiral David Porter began bombing Arkansas Post. The next day the Confederates surrendered.

Jan. 10, 1899 – The Town of Repton, Ala. was incorporated.


Jan. 10, 1912 – The Conecuh County Jail in Evergreen, Ala. caught fire around 8 p.m. and a large crowd proceeded to the scene. An inmate caused the fire by setting a blanket on fire, but little damage was done.

Jan. 10, 1913 – The steamboat “James T. Staples” was destroyed by a boiler explosion on the Tombigbee River, about four miles from Bladon Springs, at Powes Landing, Ala. Twenty-six people were killed and 21 were injured. (Other sources say this occurred on Jan. 9.)

Jan. 10, 1923 - Four years after the end of World War I, President Warren G. Harding ordered U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home.

Jan. 10, 1925 – Harold R. Betts became postmaster at Burnt Corn, Ala.

Jan. 10, 1928 – The Monroe County Courthouse, believed to have been built in 1854, burned. It was located between the two present-day courthouses on the downtown square in Monroeville, Ala.

Jan. 10, 1938 – Baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey was born in Mobile, Ala. He went on to play for the San Francisco Giants, the San Diego Padres and the Oakland Athletics.

Jan. 10, 1957 - Six pre-dawn bombings in Montgomery, Ala. damaged four black churches and two ministers' homes, including that of Montgomery Bus Boycott leader Ralph Abernathy. The violence came on the heels of several shooting incidents in which recently desegregated city buses were fired upon.

Jan. 10, 1961 - Dashiell Hammett, the author of “The Maltese Falcon,” passed away from lung cancer at the age of 66 in New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital. A veteran of two World Wars, he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Jan. 10, 1962 - The NFL entered into a single-network agreement with CBS for telecasting all regular-season games for $4.65 million annually.

Jan. 10, 1962 – On this Wednesday morning, temperatures dipped to 12 degrees in Evergreen, Ala. and two inches of snow were reported in northern Conecuh County. All county schools were dismissed on Jan. 10 and were to remain closed until the morning of Fri., Jan. 12.

Jan. 10, 1963 - The Chicago Cubs became the first baseball club to hire an athletic director when they hired Robert Whitlow to fill the position.

Jan. 10, 1964 – A UFO was reported to have zipped into the tracking range during the firing of a Polaris missile and for 14 minutes the radar followed the erratic course of the UFO before getting back on the target missile.

Jan. 10, 1982 - San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark made a leaping catch in the end zone on a pass from quarterback Joe Montana with 51 seconds left in the National Football Conference (NFC) championship game against the Dallas Cowboys. "The Catch" set up a successful extra point kick by Ray Wersching that lifted the 49ers to a 28-27 victory and a trip to Super Bowl XVI.

Jan. 10, 1990 - The NCAA approved a random drug testing program among college football players and harsh penalties for drug use.

Jan. 10, 1999 - The animated series "Batman Beyond" debuted on the WB network.


Jan. 10, 2011 - SEC champion Auburn University, led by Coach Gene Chizik and Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton, defeated the PAC-10 champions, the University of Oregon, in the BCS National Championship game in Glendale, Arizona, with a final score of 22-19.

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