March 13, 0607 A.D. - The 12th recorded passage of Halley's
Comet occurred.
March 13, 1519 - Cortez landed in Mexico.
March 13, 1660 - A statute was passed limiting the sale of
slaves in the colony of Virginia.
March 13, 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom,
fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of
Guatemala.
March 13, 1733 - Joseph Priestley, supporter of the American
Revolution and leader of the Unitarian Church in Britain and America, was born
in Yorkshire, England. His home and laboratory were burned on the second
anniversary of Bastille Day due to his support. In 1794, he moved to
Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
March 13, 1777 - The U.S. Congress ordered its European
envoys to appeal to high-ranking foreign officers to send troops to reinforce
the American army.
March 13, 1778 - A French ambassador informed the British
government that France had officially recognized the United States as an
independent nation. England declared war on France four days later.
March 13, 1781 – English astronomer Sir William Herschel
discovered the planet Uranus.
March 13, 1818 – Ogly Massacre occurred as Jack “Savannah
Jack” Hague attacked the Ogly family. Elizabeth Stroud, her infant, four other
children and Mary Ann Ogly were killed by Hague’s band. Stroud was buried in
the Middleton Cemetery in northern Monroe County, Ala. Hague was pursued by Col.
Hunter but escaped to whereabouts unknown.
March 13, 1852 - The New York Lantern newspaper published
the first "Uncle Sam cartoon". It was drawn by Frank Henry Bellew.
The name “Uncle Sam” had been used to refer to the United States since about
1810, but this was the first time that someone thought to make him into a
character and draw him in human form.
March 13, 1855 – Astronomer Percival Lowell was born in
Boston, Mass.
March 13, 1862 – During the Civil War, the U.S. federal
government forbid all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus
effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for
the Emancipation Proclamation.
March 13, 1862 - Union General Ambrose Burnside landed
12,000 troops along the Neuse River, 15 miles south of New Bern, N.C. The next
day Burnside captured New Bern.
March 13, 1865 – During the Civil War, the Confederate
States of America agreed to the use of African American troops in the main
Rebel armies. There was no stipulation for freedom for those slaves that
fought.
March 13, 1870 - Alabama editor Seale Harris was born in
Cedartown, Ga.
March 13, 1887 - Fugitive Alabama State Treasurer Isaac
"Honest Ike" Vincent was arrested on a train in Big Sandy, Texas, and
was returned to Alabama for trial. Four years earlier Vincent had absconded
with more than $225,000 in state funds unaccounted for. Vincent was tried and
convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 15 years in the state penitentiary.
March 13, 1892 – Writer Janet Flanner was born in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
March 13, 1901 - The 23rd president of the United States,
Benjamin Harrison, died at the age of 67 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was
buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
March 13, 1911 – Marie Rudisill, aka “The Fruitcake Lady,”
was born in Monroeville, Ala.
March 13, 1911 – Science fiction writer and Scientology
founder L. Ron Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska. In 1950, he published “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health”
(1950), which promised that a therapeutic process called auditing could erase a
person’s cellular traces of traumatic experiences, and that this would cure any
physical or mental ailment and increase intelligence. Hubbard used his ideas
about Dianetics to found the Church of Scientology in 1954.
March 13, 1914 – B.B. Comer spoke at the Conecuh County Courthouse
during his campaign for Alabama governor.
March 13, 1918 – During World War I, Army Pvt. Alma M.
Martin of Castleberry, Ala. “died from wounds.”
March 13, 1935 – 3,000-year-old archives were found in
Jerusalem confirming some biblical history.
March 13, 1941 - Adolf Hitler issued an edict calling for an
invasion of the U.S.S.R.
March 13, 1954 - Bobby Thomson of the Milwaukee Braves broke
his ankle sliding into a base during a spring training game. The Braves
replaced him with a rookie named Hank Aaron.
March 13, 1955 – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Cynthia
Tucker was born in Monroeville, Ala.
March 13, 1957 - Jimmy Hoffa was arrested by the FBI on
bribery charges.
March 13, 1960 - The NFL's Chicago Cardinals transferred to
St. Louis, Mo.
March 13, 1964 – Major League Baseball first baseman Will
Clark was born in New Orleans, La. He would go on to play for Mississippi
State, the 1984 U.S. Olympic Baseball Team, the San Francisco Giants, the Texas
Rangers, the Baltimore Orioles and the St. Louis Cardinals.
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about Dianetics to found the Church of Scientology in 1954.
March 13-16, 1967 – The Spring Term of Conecuh County
Circuit Court was held in Evergreen, Ala. with Circuit Judge Robert E.L. Key
presiding. District Attorney Ralph L. Jones of Monroeville and County Solicitor
Henry J. Kinzer of Evergreen prosecuted for the state. Twelve cases were set
for trial on the docket, according to Circuit Clerk Leon A. Salter.
March 13, 1972 – NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer was born in
Santa Cruz, Calif. He would go on to play for Fresno State, the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers, the Baltimore Ravens, the Seattle Seahawks, the Cleveland Browns
and the San Francisco 49ers.
March 13, 1974 - A television version of Alabama author
William Bradford Huie's book “The Execution
of Private Slovick” was broadcast.
March 13, 1979 – Major League Baseball power pitcher Johan
Santana was born in Tovar Merida, Venezuela. He went on to become the dominant
left-handed pitcher in baseball from 2003 to 2006 and won the coveted Cy Young
Award as the American League’s top pitcher following the 2004 season and again
in a unanimous vote in 2006. He played for the Minnesota Twins and the New York
Mets during his career.
March 13, 1996 – Hawkins’ Quarters near Forest Home in
Butler County was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.
March 13, 1997 – The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix,
Arizona by hundreds of people and by millions on television. This huge
triangular formation of lights was reported by countless witnesses, some who
called in to Art Bell that night. Gov. Fife Symington, who initially made fun
of the incident, belatedly publicly admitted he, too, saw the lights.
March 13, 2003 - A report in the journal "Nature"
reported that scientists had found 350,000-year-old human footprints in Italy.
The 56 prints were made by three early, upright-walking humans that were
descending the side of a volcano.
March 13, 2007 – The Old Sullivan Community Cemetery in
Escambia County was added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register.
March 13, 2008 – The “Mystery Tombstone” story was first
published in The Evergreen Courant.
March 13, 2011 – Jeff Daniels of Evergreen, Ala. began his
successful 2,181-mile thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail.
March 13, 2012 - After 244 years of publication, the
Encyclopædia Britannica announced it would discontinue its print edition.
March 13, 2014 – “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” made
its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.
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