Confederate General Edward A. Perry |
March 15, 1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain
after his first New World voyage.
March 15, 1767 – Andrew Jackson, who would go on to become
the seventh President of the United States, was born in the Waxhaws border
region between South Carolina and North Carolina (exact location disputed).
March 15, 1778 - In command of two frigates, the Frenchman
la Perouse sailed east from Botany Bay for the last lap of his voyage around
the world.
March 15, 1781 - During the American Revolution, the Battle
of Guilford Courthouse took place near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina.
British General Cornwallis' 1,900 soldiers defeated an American force of 4,400.
March 15, 1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New
York, George Washington made a surprise visit at an assembly of his officers
and asked them not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. His goal was to calm the
growing frustrations with Congress for their failure to pay them. The plea is
successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
March 15, 1790 – Joseph Morgan Wilcox was born in
Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Conn. He graduated at the top of his class
from the U.S. Military Academy in 1812, but was killed by Creek warriors on
Jan. 15, 1814 near the Alabama River. Wilcox County, Ala. was named in his
honor.
March 15, 1809 – Mathew Anderson, who would go on to
establish the Anderson Stage Stop on the Old Federal Road along the
Conecuh-Monroe county line, was born in South Carolina.
March 15, 1820 - Maine was admitted as the 23rd state of the
Union.
March 15, 1825 – During his tour of the United States, the
Marquis de Lafayette arrived in Charleston, South Carolina and enjoyed three
days of balls, fireworks and reunions. The reunion with Francis Huger, son of
his comrade Benjamin Huger was particularly significant in Charleston, since
Francis had tried to free Lafayette from an Austrian prison around 1795.
March 15, 1831 - Confederate General Edward Aylesworth Perry
was born in Richmond, Mass. The transplanted Yankee led a Florida brigade
during the war, and served as governor of the state after the war. He is buried
in St. John's Cemetery in Pensacola.
March 15, 1844 - Author Willis Brewer was born near
Livingston, Ala.
March 15, 1845 – Evergreen (Ala.) Baptist Church was organized in
the home of George Brown.
March 15, 1852 – Playwright and folklorist Isabella Augusta,
Lady Gregory, was born in Galway, Ireland. She is best remembered as an
instrumental figure in the Irish Literary Revival.
March 15, 1861 – Julius Ceasar Finklea, who was born in
1843, enlisted at Pineville, Ala. and served with Co. D of the 5th Alabama
Infantry under Capt. Giles Goode, who died from non-hostile causes at
Winchester, Va. Finklea was admitted to Wayside General Hospital No. 9 in
Richmond, Va. and was transferred to Howard Grove General Hospital on May 16,
1864. Finklea died in 1918 and was buried in Montrose Cemetery in Baldwin
County, Ala.
March 15, 1861 – E.C. Lindsey enlisted at Pineville, Ala.
and was on the roster of the Monroe Guards on March 21, 1861. He was listed as
sick at Sangsters Cross Roads, Va. He was present with the unit all of 1862,
1863 and up until March 24, 1864. He later became disabled and was left behind
with the officer’s baggage train. He later rejoined the company and served
until the end of the war.
March 15, 1862 - General John Hunt Morgan began four days of
raids near the city of Gallatin, Tenn.
March 15, 1864 – During the Civil War the Red River Campaign
continued as the Union forces reach Alexandria, La.
March 15, 1865 – During the Civil War, a skirmish occurred
at Boyd’s Station and another at Stevenson’s Gap, Ala.
March 15, 1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings played their
first game. They were the first professional baseball team.
March 15, 1909 - Author Marian Cockrell was born in
Birmingham, Ala.
March 15, 1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retired from baseball.
March 15, 1915 – The spring term of Monroe County Circuit
Court convened in Monroeville, Ala. with Judge Benjamin D. Turner of Chatom
presiding.
March 15, 1918 – Literary critic and biographer Richard
Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Mich. His 1989 biography, “Oscar Wilde,” won
the Pulitzer Prize.
March 15, 1919 - The American Legion was founded in Paris.
March 15, 1926 – John Hollis Bankhead Jr. spoke in
Monroeville, Ala.
March 15, 1929 – The Pea River crested at Elba at a depth of
43.5 feet during a devastating flood.
March 15, 1929 – Elba, Ala. residents are forced to take
refuge on housetops as they awaited rescue from rapidly rising flood waters.
Rains beginning in late February resulted in flooding that affected most of the
state and left 15,000 south Alabamians homeless. Although the Flood of 1929 hit
Elba the hardest, several other towns, including Geneva and Brewton, were
covered in as much as 15 feet of water.
March 15, 1937 – H.P. Lovecraft passed away at the age of 46
in Providence, Rhode Island.
March 15, 1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
declared 221,000 acres of public land as Jackson Hole National Monument. Most
of this national monument later became part of the Grand Teton National Park in
Wyoming.
March 15, 1946 – Major League Baseball right fielder Bobby
Bonds was born in Riverside, Calif. He would go on to play for the San
Francisco Giants, the New York Yankees, the California Angels, the Chicago
White Sox, the Texas Rangers, the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Cardinals
and the Chicago Cubs. His son, Barry Bond, would also go on to become a
record-setting Major League player.
March 15, 1948 – Mandatory blood testing for syphilis of all
Conecuh County, Ala. residents, ages 14 through 50, as required by state law
began. Blood testing stations were established throughout the county for this
purpose.
March 15, 1959 – Major League
Baseball designated hitter and right fielder Harold Baines was born in Easton,
Md. He would go on to play for the Chicago White Sox, the Texas Rangers, the
Oakland Athletics, the Baltimore Orioles and the Cleveland Indians.
March 15, 1964 - A television version of Alabama author
Borden Deal's story "For the Love of Willadean: Treasure in the Haunted
House" was broadcast as part of the “Walt
Disney's Wonderful World of Color” series.
March 15, 1965 -
President Lyndon B. Johnson gave a speech demanding legislation to guarantee
equal voting rights for all Americans. The televised
speech was delivered before a joint session of Congress. It was titled “The
American Promise,” but it is usually called the “We Shall Overcome” speech.
March 15, 1972 – “The Godfather” – a three-hour epic chronicling the lives of the Corleones, an Italian-American crime family led by the powerful Vito Corleone (portrayed by actor Marlon Brando) – was released in theaters.
March 15, 1979 – Major League Baseball first baseman and
third baseman Kevin Youkilis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He would go on to
play for the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees.
March 15, 1982 – The Brewton (Ala.) Historic Commercial District
added to the National Register of Historic Places.
March 15, 1985 – The first Internet domain name was
registered (symbolics.com).
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