Edgar Cayce, circa 1910. |
March 18, 1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last
Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake.
March 18, 1541 - Hernando de Soto observed the first
recorded flood of the Mississippi River.
March 18, 1760 – American Revolutionary War soldier William
Hillhouse was born (some sources say 1752) in South Carolina. One of the
founders of the Greensboro, Ala. Presbyterian Church, he served as a private,
sergeant and lieutenant in the South Carolina militia. He died on April 28,
1848 in Oktibbeha County, Miss. and was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in
Starkville, Miss.
March 18, 1766 – During the American Revolution, after four
months of widespread protest in America, the British Parliament voted to repeal
the Stamp Act of 1765, which was passed on March 22, 1765 to raise raise
revenues for a standing British army in America. Parliament also passed a
Declaratory Act that asserted the British government's total legislative
control over the colonies.
March 18, 1774 - Lord North brought up the Port Bill (The
Boston Port Act).
March 18, 1778 - British Loyalists and Hessian mercenary
forces assaulted the local New Jersey militia at Quinton's Bridge in New
Jersey.
March 18, 1783 - General George Washington wrote a letter to
Congress to assure them that the unrest with army officers was over.
March 18, 1790 – John Greene Sr. was born in Abbeville
District, S.C. He moved to Conecuh County in 1816 and later established the
first school in Conecuh County. He was selected as a State Representative in
1824 and 1828 and represented Conecuh County at the Secession Convention in
1861 and at the Constitutional Convention in 1875.
March 18, 1813 - David Melville patented the gas
streetlight.
March 18, 1825 – During his tour of the United States, the
Marquis de Lafayette arrived in Beaufort, South Carolina to a 13-gun salute and
speaks to citizens from the John Mark Verdier House.
March 18, 1830 – Scottish author and newspaperman James
Stuart, who was traveling by stage from Montgomery to Mobile, wrote in his book
“Three Years in North America” that on this day he “proceeded on the stage from
Greenville to Price’s Hotel, 15 miles. Price himself had driven me from
Greenville; his wife had an excellent breakfast prepared… She had lived a long
time in South Carolina, but liked Alabama quite as well, were it not for the
want of schools for her children, the climate was more healthy, and her husband
better paid… The population in this neighborhood is still very thin; but there
are patches here and there of corn crops. The wheat is already in the ear on
the 18th of March.”
March 18, 1834 - The first railroad tunnel in the U.S. was
completed in Pennsylvania.
March 18, 1835 - Charles Darwin left Santiago Chile on his
way to Portillo Pass.
March 18, 1837 - Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th
presidents of the United States, was born in Caldwell, N.J.
March 18, 1837 – William Lawrence Locklin passed away at
Claiborne, Ala. at the age of 62. He moved to Georgia to Claiborne in 1812 and
established Alabama’s first cotton gin there in 1817. He was buried in
Claiborne Cemetery in Monroe County, but his gravestone no longer exists.
March 18, 1842 – French poet Stephane Mallarme was born in
Paris.
March 18, 1862 – Butler County native Thomas H. Watts began
serving as the Confederate States Attorney General. His term ended on Oct. 1,
1863, two months before he began serving as Alabama’s Confederate governor.
March 18, 1864 - In Washington, DC, the U.S. Sanitary
Commission Fair closed.
March 18, 1865 – During the Civil War, the Congress of the
Confederate States adjourned for the last time.
March 18, 1877 – Former Selma resident Edgar Cayce was born
in Hopkinsville, Ky. Known as the "sleeping prophet," he was
considered the most documented psychic of the 20th century, giving readings to
thousands of seekers while in a trance state. He lived in Selma, Ala. from 1912
to 1925.
March 18, 1893 – Poet Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire,
England. Two years after his death at the age of 25 in World War I, the “Poems
of Wilfred Owen” was published in 1920.
March 18, 1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short wave
transmitter to become the first person to broadcast as a "ham"
operator.
March 18, 1911 - Theodore Roosevelt opened the Roosevelt Dam
in Arizona. It was the largest dam in the U.S. at the time.
March 18, 1915 – Miss Christine J. Tinling of the Women’s
Christian Temperance Union spoke at the Conecuh County Courthouse n Evergreen,
Ala. at 8 p.m.
March 18, 1918 - Alabama author and Poet Laureate Morton D.
Prouty was born in Illinois.
March 18, 1919 - The Order of DeMolay was established in
Kansas City.
March 18, 1927 – Writer and editor George Plimpton was born
in New York City.
March 18, 1932 – Writer John Updike 1932 was born in
Reading, Pa.
March 18, 1936 – “These
Three,” a movie version of Alabama author Lillian Hellman's play “The Children's Hour,” with a screenplay
written by Hellman, was released.
March 18, 1940 – During World War II, Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass in the Alps. The Italian
dictator agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain during the
meeting.
March 18, 1942 - The third military draft began in the U.S.
because of World War II.
March 18, 1953 - National League owners approved the move of
the Braves from Boston to Milwaukee. It was the first major league franchise
shift since 1903.
March 18, 1959 - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signed the
Hawaii statehood bill.
March 18, 1964 – Evergreen city councilman and major pro tem
W.H. “Henry” Sessions qualified to run for the mayor’s seat in the upcoming
municipal election. Sessions was the owner of Conecuh Quick Freeze, led the
ticket for council in his first political race in 1960 and was serving on
Governor George C. Wallace’s Committee of 100.
March 18, 1970 - The NFL selected Wilson to be the official
football and scoreboard as official time.
March 18, 1970 - A movie version of Alabama author Jesse
Hill Ford's book, “The Liberation of Lord
Byron Jones,” was released.
March 18, 1974 – NFL quarterback Brian Griese was born in
Miami, Fla. He would go on to play for Michigan, the Denver Broncos, the Miami
Dolphins, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Chicago Bears.
March 18, 1981 - The first episode of "The Greatest
American Hero" aired on ABC.
March 18, 1989 - A 4,400-year-old mummy was discovered at
the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
March 18, 1990 - The 32-day lockout of Major League Baseball
players ended.
March 18, 1990 - In Tampa, Fla. a little league player was
killed after being hit with a pitch.
March 18, 1990 – The “Gardner Heist,” the largest art theft
in U.S. History, occurred at the Isabella Stewart Garnder Museum in Boston,
Mass.
March 18, 1994 – Episode No. 18 of “The X-Files” – entitled
“Miracle Man” – aired for the first time.
March 18, 1994 - Four guns and 25 boxes of ammo were
confiscated from Kurt Cobain after his wife, Courtney Love, called police
fearing he was going to commit suicide. He did commit suicide about three weeks
later.
March 18, 1997 – Conecuh County’s “Mystery Crack” appeared
sometime between 5 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. on Conecuh County Road 73, 4.8 miles east
of Repton, in the Springhill community. The crack grew to 300 yards in length
and as much as 60 feet wide in some places with varying depths of up to five to
23 feet. A thick, slippery layer of
clay was blamed.
March 18, 1974 – NFL quarterback Brian Griese was born in
Miami, Fla. He would go on to play for Michigan, the Denver Broncos, the Miami
Dolphins, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Chicago Bears.
March 18, 1981 - The first episode of "The Greatest
American Hero" aired on ABC.
March 18, 2004 – Gov. Bob Riley vetoed House Joint
Resolution No. 100, which proposed making Conecuh Ridge Alabama Fine Whiskey
the state spirit, saying that Alabama “should not set a precedent of endorsing
a commercially sold product.” In response, the Alabama Legislature acted
quickly and in a rare move overrode Riley’s veto by a vote of 54-7 in the House
on March 18 and 19-8 in the Senate on April 6.
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