John McDuffie of Monroe County, Ala. |
Nov. 1, 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by
Michelangelo, was exhibited to the public for the first time.
Nov. 1, 1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage
immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the
Atlantic Oceans, was first discovered and navigated by European explorer
Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
Nov. 1, 1604 - "Othello," the tragedy by William
Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
Nov. 1, 1611 - "The Tempest," Shakespeare's
romantic comedy, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
Nov. 1, 1642 – French-Canadian explorer Jean Nicolet, who
was around 44 years old, drowned after his boat capsized during a storm while
traveling along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.
Nov. 1, 1755 - The Great Lisbon Earthquake occurred, which
was followed by a tsunami and fires. It was one of the deadliest natural
disasters in history with the near-total destruction of Lisbon, Portugal.
Geologists estimate the earthquake was close to a magnitude 9 on the Richter
scale.
Nov. 1, 1765 – In the face of widespread opposition in the
American colonies, the British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American
colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
Nov. 1, 1777 - The Congress proclaimed a day of thanksgiving
on Dec. 18 to commemorate the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga.
Nov. 1, 1800
– John Adams became the first President of the United States to live in the
Executive Mansion, which was later renamed the White House.
Nov. 1, 1815 – Col. Thomas James Judge was born in Richland
District, S.C. He moved to Butler County, Ala. in 1820, established the
Greenville Whig newspaper in 1834 and served in the Creek War. He later became
an attorney and served as Solicitor of the Second Circuit. He also served as a
state representative and state senator. During the Civil War, he served in the
Confederate army and served as a military court judge in Mobile. He would later
serve as a state supreme court justice. He died on March 3, 1876 and was buried
in Butler County.
Nov. 1, 1839 – Believed to be the date on which the
Evergreen Academy first opened.
Nov. 1, 1839 – The First Presbyterian Church of Demopolis
was organized with nine members by the Tuscaloosa Presbytery with the Rev.
Isaac Hadden officiating.
Nov. 1, 1848 – In Boston, Mass., the first medical school
for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston
University School of Medicine), opened. It was started by Samuel Gregory, and
the first class — 12 women in all — graduated just two years later, in 1850.
Nov. 1, 1852 – The first organized public school in Alabama
was opened in Mobile, Ala. at Barton Academy with 400 children.
Nov. 1, 1861 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appointed
George Brinton McClellan as general-in-chief of all Union forces after General
Winfield Scott resigned the previous day.
Nov. 1, 1861 – During the Civil War, a Federal expedition
from Rolla, Mo. took place, and a skirmish was fought at Renick, Randolph
County, Mo.
Nov. 1, 1861 – During the Civil War, a convoy ship sank off
Cape Hatteras, N.C., a part of the Port Royal, S.C. expedition.
Nov. 1, 1861 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought
against Indians on the Peosi River in Texas.
Nov. 1, 1861 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought
near Gauley Bridge or Cotton Hill in West Virginia.
Nov. 1, 1862 – During the Civil
War, the following were appointed Confederate Brigadier Generals: George Thomas
Anderson, Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, John Roger Cooke, Montgomery Dent Corse,
George Pierce Doles, John Brown Gordon, Alfred Iverson, Jr, James Henry Lane,
Elisha Franklin Paxton, Carnot Posey, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Jerome Bonaparte
Robertson, and Edward Lloyd Thomas. The following were appointed Federal
Brigadier Generals: Richard Arnold, William Passmore Carlin, and Alfred
Washington Ellet.
Nov. 1, 1862 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at La Grange, Ark.; in Henderson County, Ky.; and
at Berry’s Ford Gap and Philomount in Virginia.
Nov. 1, 1862 - Federal naval operations
began in Berwick Bay, La., including the capture of the Confederate steamer,
A.B. Seger. A four-day Federal operation also began in Boone and Jackson County
in Missouri, in pursuit of Quantrill’s guerrillas; and an 11-day Federal
expedition began from New Berne, N.C., including skirmishes at Little Creek and
Rawle’s Mill.
Nov. 1, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Quinn and Jackson’s Mill in Mississippi; at
Eastport and Fayetteville in Tennessee; against Indians on the Gila River in
the New Mexico Territory; and at Catlett’s Station, Va.
Nov. 1, 1863 – During the Civil
War, Ulysses Simpson Grant was appointed the sole Lieutenant General in the
Federal Army.
Nov. 1, 1863 – During the Civil
War, Federal forces retired from Opelousas to New Iberia in Louisiana.
Nov. 1, 1863 – During the Civil
War, a Federal force moved from Bovina to Baldwin’s Ferry in Mississippi with
no loss of life on either side. A rarity in the Civil War. A 17-day Federal
expedition from Beverly and Charleston against Lewisburg in West Virginia
began.
Nov. 1, 1863 - Fort Sumter, in
Charleston harbor, S.C. had seen the beginning of the war, when it suffered
shelling. It had endured one major round of shelling since then, when the first
major Federal assault had taken place. On this day, it was undergoing yet
another one. Since the bombardment had begun, from mortars and from rifled
batteries, hundreds and then thousands of shells had been hurled at the
installation. On this day yet another 786 rounds were fired, with the net
effect of inflicting injury on precisely one defender. That reflected the
physical injuries anyway. The psychological toll was vastly greater, as the
impact of the explosions continued to wear away on the men in their bombproof
shelters.
Nov. 1, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought on the Big Piney River, near Waynesville, Mo., and
at Greenton, Lebanon and Rolla in Missouri; at Green Springs Run, W.Va.; and in
the vicinity of Union Station, Tenn.
Nov. 1, 1864 – During the Civil
War, Federal operations commenced against guerrillas in Central Arkansas; and a
four-day Federal scouting mission from Bermuda Hundred into Charles City County
in Virginia began.
Nov. 1, 1865 - Alexander Beaufort Meek, lawyer, poet,
newspaper editor, and state legislator, passed away at the age 51. Meek was
responsible for the passage of the Public School Act of 1854, the first
statewide legislation to create a fund for public education and the position of
state superintendent of education. Meek’s most famous poem, “The Red Eagle,”
a lyrical epic about Creek chief William Weatherford, was published in 1855.
Nov. 1, 1869 – The construction of the Escambia County Jail
was completed at Pollard, which was then the county seat of Escambia County,
Ala.
Nov. 1, 1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau
(later renamed the National Weather Service) made its first official
meteorological forecast.
Nov. 1, 1871 – Novelist and short-story writer Stephen Crane
was born in Newark, N.J.
Nov. 1, 1880 – Sports writer Grantland Rice was born in
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Nov. 1, 1888 – Russian geographer and explorer Nikolay
Przhevalsky died of typhus at the age of 49 at Karakol,
Russian Empire (Now Kyrgyzstan).
Nov. 1, 1897 – The first Library of Congress building opened
its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional
Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
Nov. 1, 1897 – Scottish writer Baroness Mitchison was born
Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nov. 1, 1907 – In H.P. Lovecraft’s fictional work, “The Call
of Cthulhu,” New Orleans police official John Raymond Legrasse led a party of
policemen in search of several women and children who disappeared from a
squatter community. The police found the victims' "oddly marred"
bodies used in a ritual in which almost 100 men—all of a "very low,
mixed-blooded, and mentally aberrant type"—were "braying, bellowing,
and writhing" and repeatedly chanting the phrase, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh
Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". After killing five of the participants
and arresting 47 others, including the ancient sailor “Castro,” Legrasse
interrogated the prisoners and learned "the central idea of their
loathsome faith.”
Nov. 1, 1912 – The Orphans Call, a
small 25-cent newsletter published by the Louise Short Baptist Widows and
Orphans Home of Alabama, was established. It later changed its name to “Our
Children.”
Nov. 1, 1913 - Notre Dame defeated
Army 35-13. It was the first time the forward pass was used as a main offensive
weapon in football.
Nov. 1, 1914 – On this Sunday
night, five businesses in Evergreen, Ala. were burglarized, including the
Powell & Son’s store, the Moorer-Williams Mercantile Co., Marlin’s drug
store, S. Sudeiha’s fruit stand and Braxton’s meat market.
Nov. 1, 1914 – The census bureau
reported that 12,559 bales of cotton had been ginned in Conecuh County, Ala. up
to this date compared to 12,201 up to that same date in 1913.
Nov. 1, 1914 – Special Agent S.D.
Nettles reported that 17,932 bales of cotton had been ginned in Monroe County,
Ala. up to this date, compared to 17,534 up to that same date in 1913.
Nov. 1, 1914 - In a crushing
victory, a German naval squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee
sank two British armored cruisers with all aboard off the southern coast of
Chile, in the Battle of Coronel.
Nov. 1, 1930 – Playwright A.R.
Gurney was born Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. in Buffalo, N.Y.
Nov. 1, 1934 – Mrs. D.W. Haskew,
the wife of Dr. D.W. Haskew, a prominent and widely known Methodist minister
from Dothan, was instantly killed on this Thursday afternoon, when the
automobile in which she was riding and driven by her husband, turned over
several times on the highway near Repton. According to reports of the accident,
Dr. Haskew attempted to dodge a cow, which suddenly ran onto the highway in
front of the machine, causing him to lose control of the car. Mrs. Haskew was
thrown from the front into the rear seat with such force that it broke her
neck, causing instant death.
Nov. 1, 1939 – The C.W. Jackson
residence, east of Monroeville, Ala., was damaged by a fire that was discovered
around 10 a.m. Damage was restricted to the roof of the home thanks to little
wind and the fire department.
Nov. 1, 1943 – During World War II,
the Bougainville Campaign (aka, “The Battle of Bougainville”) began in the
South Pacific. According to the Aug. 10, 1944 edition of The Evergreen Courant,
Sgt. Joseph Spears of Evergreen, Ala. received a Purple Heart for bravery at Bougainville.
The son of Ganey and Gussie Spears of Evergreen, he was wounded in the shoulder
and sent to a California hospital to recover.
Nov. 1, 1944 - Alabama author Lee Smith was born in Grundy,
Va.
Nov. 1, 1947 – Pro Football Hall of
Fame linebacker Ted Hendricks was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Nov. 1, 1947 – Up to this date,
4,839 bales of cotton had been ginned in Conecuh County, Ala. from the crop of
1947, compared with 3,523 bales ginned up to that date in 1946.
Nov. 1, 1950 – Legislator and judge John McDuffie, who was a
native of Monroe County, Ala., passed away in Mobile at the age of 67. He was elected
to represent Alabama's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives,
serving from 1919 to 1935. He also served as a Member of the Alabama State
House of Representatives from 1907 to 1911, and as a Federal Judge in
1935. Born at River Ridge in Monroe County on Sept. 25, 1883, he was
buried in the Pine Crest Cemetery in Mobile.
Nov. 1, 1952 – The United States test detonated “Mike,” the
code name for the first hydrogen bomb, on Elugelab Island, part of the Eniwetok
atoll in the Marshall Islands, about 3,000 miles west of Hawaii.
Nov. 1, 1953 – According to government records, 10,677 bales
of cotton were ginned in Conecuh County, Ala. from the 1953 crop prior to this
date, compared to 9,945 bales ginned up to the same date in 1952.
Nov. 1, 1953 - Lt. Windell Owens, a Monroeville attorney,
was appointed commanding officer of Monroeville’s Battery D of the 108th
National Guard Antiaircraft Battalion. Owens replaced R. Jeff Martin, who had
resigned at the end of October. Owens received his appointment via telephone
from State National Guard headquarters in Montgomery.
Nov. 1, 1959 – Novelist Susanna Clarke was born in
Nottingham, England.
Nov. 1, 1960 – Major League pitcher Fernando Valenzuela was
born in Navojoa, Sonora. He would go on to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers,
the California Angels, the Baltimore Orioles, the Philadelphia Phillies, the
San Diego Padres and the St. Louis Cardinals.
Nov. 1, 1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto
Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opened.
Nov. 1, 1963
– The 1963 South Vietnamese coup began.
Nov. 1, 1964 - Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns became the
first NFL player to exceed 10,000 yards rushing.
Nov. 1, 1964 - One year after the
overthrow and assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem, the situation in South
Vietnam was deteriorating in both the military and political spheres.
Nov. 1, 1968 – J.U. Blacksher High School, under head coach
Buddy Rhodes, beat Lyeffion High School, 21-12. Standout Blacksher players in
that game included Bohannon, Joe Dale Harris, McGee and Howard Metts.
Nov. 1, 1968 – Excel High School’s football team beat
Fruitdale High School, 27-6, in Fruitdale. Standout Excel players in that game
included Jimmie Dawson, Harold Johnson, Tommy Jordan, Danny Wiggins and Eddie
Wiggins,
Nov. 1, 1968 - The U.S. mission in
Saigon initiated two operations designed to bolster rural security and
development efforts. The Le Loi program was an intensified civic action
campaign intended to repair the damage done by the enemy’s offensives earlier
in the year and to return control of the rural population to the Saigon
government. The other operation was the Phuong Hoang (Phoenix) program, a
hamlet security initiative run by the Central Intelligence Agency that relied
on centralized, computerized intelligence gathering to identify and eliminate
the Viet Cong infrastructure–the upper echelon of the National Liberation Front
political cadres and party members.
Nov. 1, 1973 – The Evergreen Courant reported that John B.
Jordan had donated a piece of land on South Main Street to the City of
Evergreen for use as a cemetery. The city planned to lay out burial plots on
the land, which was to be called the John B. Jordan Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Nov. 1, 1973 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
Evergreen City Council had authorized the purchase of a piece of land from
Billy Melton, which was to be developed into a park with tennis courts. The
land was between Belleville and Liberty Hill Drive, adjoining Pugh & Son,
Inc.
Nov. 1, 1973 – During the Watergate scandal, Leon Jaworski
was appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
Nov. 1, 1976 – The Perdue Hill Masonic Lodge was added to
Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.
Nov. 1, 1980 – Seacoast Coast Line Industries, parent of
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, merged with Chessie System to form CSX
Transportation.
Nov. 1, 1980 – On homecoming night in Lyeffion, Ala.,
Lyeffion High School beat J.U. Blacksher, 14-6, at Mabry Covin Field. Donald
Lee was the leading Jacket rusher with 83 yards. The Taylor brothers, Freddie
and Ardell, led the Jacket defense with four solo tackles and six assists each,
and Freddie also had a fumble recovery. Other standout Lyeffion players in that
game included Richard Benson, Bobby Blount, Mack Daily, Rickey Gill, Mike
Grace, Howard Johnson, Jerry Lymon, Floyd McNeil, Garnet Mims, Jesse Mixon,
Roosevelt Mixon, Robert Riley and Tim Searcy.
Nov. 1, 1983 – Monroe County Sheriff Lenwood Sager announced
that assistant chief deputy Darrel Ledkins had been promoted to the position of
chief deputy, filling a position held by former Chief Deputy Alvin Royster.
Ledkins joined the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department in October 1975 and he
was promoted to assistant chief deputy in 1978. Steve Griffis was also named
assistant chief deputy, and James Prevo was promoted to sergeant.
Nov. 1, 1986 – Between 10:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m., Patrick
Henry Junior College student Ronda Morrison of Monroeville, Ala. was murdered
at Jackson Cleaners in Monroeville, shot three times with a .25 caliber
handgun. Her body was discovered by customers Jerrie Sue Dunning, Florence
Mason and Coy Stacey.
Nov. 1, 1993 – The European Union was formally established.
Nov. 1, 1994 - Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged"
performance was released as "MTV Unplugged in New York."
Nov. 1, 1999 – Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Walter
Payton died at the age of 45 in South Barrington, Ill. During his career, he
played for Jackson State and the Chicago Bears. He was inducted into the Hall
of Fame in 1993.
Nov. 1, 2001 - Dan Neil of the Denver Broncos was fined
$15,000 for an illegal block that broke the leg of Bryan Cox of the New England
Patriots.
Nov. 1, 2008 – “Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme,” an
animated movie based on the Marvel character, had its broadcast premiere on the
Cartoon Network.
Nov. 1, 2010 - The San Francisco Giants won their first
World Series since moving to California. They defeated the Texas Rangers in
five games.
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