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| Bessemer, Ala. native Bo Jackson. |
June 7, 1494 – Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas
which divided the New World between the two countries.
June 7, 1498 - Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage
of exploration.
June 7, 1712 - The Pennsylvania Assembly banned the
importation of slaves.
June 7, 1775 - The United Colonies changed their name to the
United States.
June 7, 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presented the "Lee
Resolution" to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia that would declare
the colonies independent. The motion was seconded by John Adams and led to the
United States Declaration of Independence.
June 7, 1825 – During his tour of the United States, the
Marquis de Lafayette met with local Revolutionary War veterans at Silvius
Hoard's Tavern, Rochester, N.Y.
June 7, 1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agreed
to suppress the slave trade.
June 7, 1862, Alabama author Johnson Jones Hooper died in
Richmond, Va.
June 7, 1863 - A Confederate attempt to rescue Vicksburg and
a Rebel garrison held back by Union forces to the east of the city fails when
Union troops turn back the attack at the Battle of Milliken’s Bend, La.
June 7, 1892 – Benjamin Harrison became the first President
of the United States to attend a baseball game.
June 7, 1895 – A teachers institute for the white teachers of
Monroe County, Ala. was scheduled to be held at Perdue Hill on this Friday. The
Hon. J.G. Harris, former State Superintendent of Public Instruction, was one of
the scheduled speakers. An institute for colored teachers was also scheduled
for that same day at Bethel Church, near Monroeville, and was to be conducted
by F.J. Marshall.
June 7, 1867 - Journalist and poet Theodore O'Hara died near
Guerryton, Ala.
June 7, 1879 – Danish anthropologist and explorer Knud
Rasmussen in Ilulissat in western Greenland. He has been called the “father of
Eskimology” and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog
sled.
June 7, 1892 - John Joseph Doyle became the first
pinch-hitter in baseball when he was used in a game.
June 7, 1899 – Novelist Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin,
Ireland.
June 7, 1909 - Hon. Nicholas Stallworth, age 64, died at 2
a.m. at his home on Evergreen’s Main Street, after a long illness. A long-time
judicial circuit solicitor, he was also a former state senator, prominent
Mason, Knight of Pythias and active member of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. He
joined the Conecuh Guards at age 15 and was youngest member of the Fourth Ala.
Reg. He was wounded at Battle of Cold Harbor, was discharged, and later became
Adjutant of the 23rd Ala. After the war, he became a lawyer and farmer.
June 7, 1913 - Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, led the
first successful ascent of Mt. McKinley, the highest point on the American
continent at 20,320 feet.
June 7, 1920 - Author and Poet Laureate Carl Patrick Morton
was born in Leeds, Ala.
June 7, 1935 – Novelist Harry Crews was born in Bacon
County, Ga.
June 7, 1936 – Croatian explorer Stjepan Seljan passed away
at the age of 60 in Ouro Preto, Brazil.
June 7, 1949 – The Hi-Ho Restaurant on Pineville Road in
Monroeville, Ala., less than half a mile from the square, opened. It was operated
by Emma Yarbrough and Buck Marshall.
June 7, 1952 – Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul.
June 7, 1954 – Novelist and poet Louise Erdrich was born in
Little Falls, Minnesota.
June 7, 1962 – In the Evergreen (Ala.) Senior League, the
Pirates beat the Indians, 2-0. Pirates pitcher Steve Baggett threw a
one-hitter, had to hits and drove in both his team’s runs. Paul Deason pitched
for the Indians.
June 7, 1964 – In an incident often attributed to the “Bermuda
Triangle,” licensed pilot Carolyn Cascio and one passenger, who were flying in
a light plane, vanished on a flight from Nassau to Grand Turk Island, Bahamas.
June 7, 1965 – The Evergreen Pony League was scheduled to
open the 1965 season with a 6:30 p.m. game at the field at the Recreation
Center in Evergreen, Ala. Bill Chapman was the league’s president.
June 7, 1968 – Army Sgt. William Morris Cooper of Georgiana,
Ala. was killed in action in Vietnam.
June 7, 1971 – Army PFC Edwin Radford, a 1970 graduate of
Evergreen High School, began a two-week assignment as an Army hometown
recruiter in Evergreen, Ala. He’d recently completed airborne training at Fort
Benning, Ga.
June 7, 1974 – British adventurer, author and television
host Edward Michael “Bear” Grylls was born in the United Kingdom.
June 7, 1978 - Alabama author Lee McGiffin died in Fort
Worth, Texas.
June 7, 1979 - Alabama author Forrest Carter died in
Abilene, Texas.
June 7, 1982 - Steve Garvey became the fifth player in Major
League Baseball history to play in 1,000 consecutive games.
June 7, 1982 – Priscilla Presley opened Graceland to the
public. The bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept
off-limits.
June 7, 1983 - Steve Carlton temporarily passed Nolan Ryan
in career strikeouts when he registered his 3,522nd.
June 7, 1987 – Walter “Johnny D.” McMillian was arrested for
the murder of Ronda Morrison of Monroeville, Ala.
June 7, 1989 - The Toronto Skydome hosted the first baseball game to
be played indoors and outdoors in the same day. The roof was closed when the
weather became threatening.
June 7, 1993 - The ground breaking ceremony was held for the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
June 7, 1998 - The Baltimore Orioles retired Eddie Murray's
No. 33 jersey.
June 7, 2013 – Jacob May, the grandson of Birmingham, Ala.
native Lee May, was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the third round, 91st
overall, in the 2013 MLB Draft. Lee May, known as the “Big Bopper,” was a
three-time All Star.
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