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| Charles 'Bubba' Harris |
Jan. 12, 1861 - Barrancas Barracks, Fort Barrancas, Fort
McRee, and the Navy yard located at Pensacola, Fla. were seized by Florida
state troops. The surrender of Fort Pickens was demanded by Florida state
troops after the above facilities are occupied, but was refused.
Jan. 12, 1865 - Union General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was
promoted to major general in the Union Army.
Jan. 12, 1876 - Jack London was born in San Francisco,
Calif. His most famous book, “The Call of the Wild,” was published in 1903.
Jan. 12, 1906 - The forward pass was legalized by the
football rules committee.
Jan. 12, 1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball
after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected as Major
League Baseball's first commissioner.
Jan. 12, 1932 – Ida Virginia Wright, 71, of Evergreen, a
“widely known and greatly beloved lady,” passed away from influenza.
Jan. 12, 1932 – Despite stormy weather, a good crowd was on
hand to see members of Future Farmers of America from the State Secondary
Agricultural School in Evergreen, Ala. present, in court form, the “Trial of
the Soil Robber” at the school at Mt. Union.
Jan. 12, 1938 – In Conecuh County, Ala., Brooklyn’s boys
basketball team beat Evergreen High School, 17-14.
Jan. 12, 1939 - William Lee Golden was born in Brewton, Ala.
He would go on to sing baritone in the country music group The Oak Ridge Boys.
Golden is widely known for his waist-length beard and hair, and has become one
of the most recognizable faces in the entertainment industry.
Jan. 12, 1946 - The Cleveland Rams were granted permission
to move to Los Angeles.
Jan. 12, 1951 - Annie Lola Price of Cullman became the first
woman to serve on the Alabama Court of Appeals when she was appointed to the
court by Gov. Jim Folsom. The appointment was especially significant because
state law at the time prevented women from serving on juries. In 1952, Price
was elected to the three-person court and served the state as an appeals judge
until her death in 1972.
Jan. 12, 1958 - Major league baseball players Stan Musial
and Johnny Padres were guests on the "Ed Sullivan Show."
Jan. 12, 1962 – The Evergreen City School held an open house
from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. to give the public the chance to tour the school’s
new addition, which was to be used for first, second and third grade
classrooms, according to Principal Marcus O’Gwynn.
Jan. 12, 1966 - The television series "Batman"
debuted on ABC.
Jan. 12, 1967 - Dr. James Bedford became the first person
cryonically frozen following his death.
Jan. 12, 1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football
League defeated the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win
Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports
history.
Jan. 12, 1991 - "The Superfans," the #1 fans of
the Chicago Bears, sketch debuted on "Saturday Night Live."
Jan. 12, 1992 – HAL, the devious computer in “2001: A Space
Odyssey” revealed "I am a HAL 9000 Computer...I became operational at the
H-A-L plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January, 1992," as
astronaut Dave tried to pull the plug on him.
Jan. 12, 1999 - Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball was sold
at auction in New York for $3 million to an anonymous bidder.
Jan. 12, 2005 - The White House announced the official end
for the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Jan. 12, 2012 - An Alabama judge declared Natalee Holloway
of Mountain Brook legally dead in absentia. She disappeared during a high
school graduation trip to Aruba on May 30, 2005.
Jan. 12, 2013 – Former Major League Baseball pitcher Charles
“Bubba” Harris, a native of Sulligent, passed away at the age of 86 in
Nobleton, Fla. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland
Indians.
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