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| Hilary Abner Herbert |
March 12, 1692 – In connection with the Salem witchcraft
trials, Ann Putnam Jr. accused Martha Corey of witchcraft.
March 12, 1776 - British Major General Sir Henry Clinton
arrived in North Carolina. The North Carolina Loyalists had been routed by
Moore's Creek Bridge on February 27.
March 12, 1776 - In Baltimore, Md., a public notice appeared
in local papers to recognize the efforts and sacrifice of women to the cause of
the revolution.
March 12, 1789 - The U.S. Post Office was established.
March 12, 1807 – Prominent freemason Albert G. Mackey was
born in Charleston, S.C. A medical doctor and author, he is best known for his
writing many books and articles about freemasonry, particularly the Masonic
Landmarks.
March 12, 1834 – Butler County’s Col. Hilary Abner Herbert
was born in Laurens Court House, S.C. Although swept up in the “Doby Rebellion”
at the University of Alabama, he later served on the school’s Board of
Trustees. He went on to become an attorney and served as an officer in the
Greenville Guards during the Civil War. He was wounded and captured at the
Battle of Seven Pines, wounded three times at Sharpsburg and received a
disabling wound in the left arm at the Battle of the Wilderness. Later served
as U.S. Representative from Alabama’s Second District and as Secretary of the
Navy under Grover Cleveland.
March 12, 1863 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis
delivered his State of the Confederacy address.
March 12, 1864 – During the Civil War, the Red River
Campaign began as a U.S. Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and seven gunboats and
other support ships entered the Red River. The Union goal was to capture everything
along the Red River in Louisiana and continue into Texas. None of the
objectives were achieved.
March 12, 1865 – Less than a month from being released as a
Union prisoner, Noah Dallas Peacock (Lewis Lavon Peacock’s older brother) was
admitted to General Hospital No. 9 in Richmond, Va.
March 12, 1877 - Alabama author Octavia Walton Le Vert died
on her family's plantation near Augusta, Ga.
March 12, 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888, a storm that
dumped up to 50 inches of snow along the East Coast from Montreal to
Washington, D.C., occurred. Four hundred people died in the storm, more than
200 of them from New York City, which was hit particularly hard.
March 12, 1894 – Coca-Cola was bottled and sold for the
first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi by local soda fountain operator Joseph
Biedenharn. Invented by an Atlanta pharmacist, the original formula included lime,
cinnamon and coca leaves.
March 12, 1903 - The New York Highlanders were given the
go-ahead by team owners to join baseball’s American League. The Highlanders had
recently moved from Baltimore, where they were called the Orioles and had a
winning tradition dating back to the 1890s. Called the “Yankees” by fans, the
team officially changed its name to the New York Yankees in 1913, and went on
to become the most dominant franchise in American sports.
March 12, 1913 - The American League approved the name
change of the New York Highlanders to the Yankees.
March 12, 1922 – Novelist and poet Jack Kerouac was born in
Lowell, Mass. His most famous novel, “On the Road,” was published in 1957. On
May 22, 2001, the original draft was sold at an auction for $2.2 million, a
record for a literary manuscript at auction.
March 12, 1923 - Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated phonofilm. It
was his technique for putting sound on motion picture film.
March 12, 1928 - The St. Francis Dam Disaster took place and
was the second-worst disaster in California history.
March 12, 1928 - A movie version of Alabama author Octavus
Roy Cohen's book “His In-Laws”
was released.
March 12, 1928 – Playwright Edward Albee was born somewhere
in Virginia. He was adopted two weeks later and taken to Larchmont, New York in
Westchester County, where he grew up. He is most famous for his 1962 play,
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
March 12, 1933 - President Paul von Hindenburg dropped the
flag of the German Republic and ordered that the swastika and empire banner be
flown side by side.
March 12, 1946 – The World War II prisoner of war camp
closed in Jackson, Ala. Many of the prisoners were members of Germany’s Afrkia
Korps. The camp opened on April 6, 1945.
March 12, 1954 - The movie “Beat the Devil,” screenplay by Alabama author Truman
Capote, was released.
March 12, 1956 – Major League Baseball outfielder Dale
Murphy was born in Portland, Oregon. He went on to play for the Atlanta Braves,
the Philadelphia Phillies and the Colorado Rockies.
March 12, 1957 – In an incident attributed to the “Dragon’s
Triangle,” a KB-50 tanker plane vanished with a crew of eight on a routine
flight from Japan to Wake Island.
March 12, 1959 - The U.S. House joined the U.S. Senate in
approving the statehood of Hawaii.
March 12, 1961 - A television version of Alabama author Cora
Cheney's book “The Peg-Leg Pirate of Sulu”
was broadcast as part of the “Shirley
Temple's Storybook” series.
March 12, 1961 – Toni Kinshofer, Anderl Mannhardt, Walter
Almberger and Toni Hiebeler completed the first winter ascent of the Eiger’s
north face.
March 12, 1962 – Major League Baseball right fielder Darryl
Strawberry was born in Los Angeles, Calif. He would go on to play for the New
York Mets, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the San Francisco Giants and the New York
Yankees.
March 12, 1974 - "Wonder Woman" debuted on ABC-TV.
The show later went to CBS-TV.
March 12, 1983 – Pensacola, Fla. firefighter A.K. “App”
Appleberg was killed in the line of duty.
March 12, 1987 - "Les Miserables" opened on
Broadway.
March 12, 1991 - The R.E.M. album "Out of Time"
was released.
March 12, 1994 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell of the Loch
Ness monster was confirmed to be a hoax. The photo was taken of a toy submarine
with a head and neck attached.
March 12, 1998 - Cathay Pacific Airways announced that it
had banned Liam Gallagher of Oasis after an incident on a flight from Hong Kong
to Australia.
March 12, 2002 - Author Oxford Stroud died in Auburn, Ala.
March 12, 2002 - U.S. homeland security chief Tom Ridge
unveiled a color-coded threat advisory scale system for terror warnings.
March 12, 2003 - The YES Network and Cablevision reached an
interim deal to air New York Yankee games. Three million viewers had not had
access to the games for 2002.
March 12, 2009 – On this night, marks claimed to be similiar
to the “Devil’s Footprints” left in 1855 were found in Devon, England.
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