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| Alabama Gov. Frank M. Dixon |
Nov. 15, 1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish
conquistadors under Hernando de Soto met Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the
first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the
following day.
Nov. 15, 1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cuzco, the
capital of the Inca Empire.
Nov. 15, 1777 – During the American Revolutionary War, after
16 months of debate the Continental Congress, sitting in its temporary capital
of York, Pa., approved the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, the
precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
Nov. 15, 1806 – During the famous “Pike Expedition,”
Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spotted a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado
foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It was later named Pikes Peak.)
Nov. 15, 1861 – During the Civil War, a pro-Federal camp
near Chattanooga, Tenn. was dispersed by Confederates.
Nov. 15, 1861 – During the Civil
War, the USS San Jacinto arrived at Fort Monroe, Va. and transferred
Confederate Commissioners Mason and Slidell as prisoners of war, to Fort
Warren, Boston Harbor, Mass., arriving on Nov. 24, 1861. This created an
international incident with England, with was undesired by President Lincoln.
Nov. 15, 1861 – During the Civil
War, the U.S Christian Commission was organized to help furnish supplies,
nurses and friendship to Federal soldiers by the Young Men’s Christian
Association (YMCA.) This YMCA spin off organized shipments of medical supplies
for doctors, and Bibles and pamphlets for chaplains. In cooperation with other
groups such as the Sanitary Commissions, they were responsible for saving
innumerable bodies as well as souls during the war.
Nov. 15, 1862 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Yocum Creek, Missouri and on the Guyandotte in
West Virginia. Actions were also fought at Sulphur Springs and Warrenton
Springs in Virginia. A five-day Federal reconnaissance was also carried out
from Edgefield toward Clarksville, Tenn.
Nov. 15, 1862 - President Abraham
Lincoln had no hobbies, few close friends, and did not go in for theater,
music, or other frivolous entertainment. He did have one area of enjoyment that
he just could not resist: he loved gadgets. He would go out at any hour to see
demonstrations of new devices being shown off by their proud inventors, or
undergoing testing by one or another military research office. On this day,
accompanied by Secretary of State William Seward and Treasury Secretary Salmon
P. Chase, he went to the Navy Yard, at the confluence of the Anacostia and
Potomac Rivers. They were to watch Capt. John A. B. Dahlgren, commander of the
yards, test a device called the Hyde rocket. It was set in its perforated
launch tube, fired, and promptly exploded on the “pad”, showering debris all
around. Dahlgren, horrified that he had nearly killed his commander-in-chief
and wiped out the upper levels of the U.S. Government, ordered development of
rocketry cancelled.
Nov. 15, 1863 – William H. Snowden of the Conecuh Guards was
wounded in a skirmish at Lenoir Station, Tenn. He would later be honorably
discharged, and he returned to live in Conecuh County, Ala. Snowden passed away
at the age of 73 on Nov. 25, 1914 and was buried in the Brooklyn Baptist Church
Cemetery.
Nov. 15, 1863 – During the Civil War, Union Major General
William T. Sherman arrived with his Federal force at Bridgeport, Ala. en route
to the relief of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Nov. 15, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought in Newton County, Ark.; at Danville, Miss.; on
John’s Island, S.C.; and at Lenoir's Station, Loudon, Pillowville and Stock
Creek in Tennessee. A four-day Federal Expedition from Charlestown, West
Virginia to New Market, Va. began, resulting in skirmishes at Woodstock,
Edenburg and Mount Jackson in Virginia. A three-day Federal Expedition from
Vidalia to Trinity in Louisiana also began.
Nov. 15, 1864 – William Tecumseh Sherman set off on his
famous March to the Sea and ordered that Atlanta's military resources,
including munitions factories, clothing mills and railway yards, be burned. The
fire got out of control and left Atlanta in ruins. The March to the Sea ended
on Dec. 21 when Union troops reached Savannah.
Nov. 15, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Clinton, La. and near Collierville, Tenn.
Skirmishes were also fought at Jonesboro and near East Point, Rough and Ready
and Stockbridge in Georgia. These skirmishes occurred on the first day of Union
Major General William T. Sherman’s “March to the Sea.”
Nov. 15, 1868 – Romanian biologist, zoologist and explorer
Emil Racovită was born.
Nov. 15, 1881 – Newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams
was born Franklin Leopold Adams in Chicago.
Nov. 15, 1887 – Artist Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun
Prairie, Wisc.
Nov. 15, 1887 – National Book Award and Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet Marianne Moore was born in Kirkwood, Mo.
Nov. 15, 1895 – At an early morning hour, the boiler at W.J.
Newberry’s steam mill and gin establishment at Mexia, five miles west of
Monroeville, exploded, wrecking a part of the mill machinery and killing Tom
Nettles, the fireman. Nettles was “horribly bruised and scalded,” and
Newberry’s loss amounted to several hundred dollars.
Nov. 15, 1914 – Harry Turner became the first player to die
from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League," the direct
predecessor to the National Football League.
Nov. 15, 1915 - The fall term of the Monroe County (Ala.)
Circuit Court was scheduled to convene on this Monday.
Nov. 15, 1917 - With his country embroiled in a bitter international conflict that would eventually take the lives of over 1 million of its young men, 76-year-old Georges Clemenceau was named prime minister of France for the second time.
Nov. 15, 1918 – During World War I, Army Pvt. Zeilin Simpson, 31, of Roy (present-day Frisco City, Ala.) died from wounds he received on Nov. 11 while serving with Co. I, 321st Infantry. Born on May 10, 1887, he was buried in the Mexia Cemetery. (Some sources say he died on Nov. 13, 1918.)
Nov. 15, 1926 - The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) debuted
with a radio network of 24 stations. The first network radio broadcast was a
four-hour "spectacular."
Nov. 15, 1934 – Poet Ted Berrigan was born in Providence,
R.I.
Nov. 15, 1935 - Dr. George Walter Gaillard, well known
Monroe County physician, died from pneumonia at the age of 78 at his home in
Perdue Hill shortly after 10 p.m. on this Friday night. The son of Dr. S.S.
Gaillard and Mrs. Sue Frye Gaillard, G.W. Gaillard was born at Perdue Hill on
Nov. 5, 1857 in the same residence in which he died. He graduated in medicine
from the Louisville Medical College in 1882 and served his internship at the
Louisville City Hospital in 1883. The following year he returned to Monroe
County and for more than 50 years he had practiced his profession in Monroe
County and “was highly esteemed by everyone.” He was buried in the McConnico
Cemetery at Perdue Hill.
Nov. 15, 1939 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin
D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
Nov. 15, 1940 - 75,000
men were called to Armed Forces duty under the first peacetime conscription in
American history.
Nov. 15, 1940 – Alabama Governor Frank M. Dixon visited
Evergreen while on the way to the Alabama Gulf Coast, where he intended to do
some hunting and fishing. Dixon arrived around noon and visited offices in the
Conecuh County Courthouse. It was believed that this was the first time that a
sitting Alabama governor had visited the courthouse after he was elected.
Nov. 15, 1943
– During the Holocaust, German SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered that Gypsies
were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration
camps."
Nov. 15, 1955 – The Evergreen City
Council passed a resolution to place a traffic policeman at the intersection of
West Front and Rural Streets during “rush hours.” Those hours approved were
from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., and 3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Nov. 15, 1959 – Richard Hickock and Perry Smith arrived at
the Clutter farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas with the intent to rob successful
farmer Herbert Clutter. Instead, they murdered Clutter, his wife and two
teenage children, and this crime inspired Truman Capote's non-fiction book “In
Cold Blood.”
Nov. 15, 1962 – Ed Smith of Palatka, Fla., the manager of
the newly formed Conecuh-Monroe Gas District, spoke to the Evergreen Rotary
Club at the Evergreen Methodist Church.
Nov. 15–20, 1963 - In Dallas, Texas, George C. Wallace
announced his intention to oppose the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy, for
the Democratic nomination for President. Days later in Dallas, Kennedy was dead
from an assassin's bullet, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded him
as president.
Nov. 15, 1966 - General Earle
Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressed a gathering at Brown
University and approximately 60 students walked out to protest his defense of
U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Nov. 15, 1969 – During the Vietnam War, in Washington, D.C.,
250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war,
including a symbolic "March Against Death.”
Nov. 15, 1969 – American cartoonist Jessica Abel was born in
Chicago, Ill.
Nov. 15, 1970 – The Evergreen Jaycees held a successful drag
race fundraiser at Middleton Field with an estimated crowd of between 2,000 to
5,000 people in attendance. (The Courant estimated that 2,300 people attended
the event.) Top drivers from across the Southeast took part in the event, and
the Jaycees realized a profit of near $2,000 from the event.
Nov. 15, 1977 – The Evergreen City Council voted unanimously
to approve a new zoning ordinance for the city.
Nov. 15, 1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski began
smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing
the plane to make an emergency landing.
Nov. 15, 1985 – A research assistant was injured when a
package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor
exploded.
Nov. 15, 1985 - The City of Evergreen hosted a “Welcome to
Evergreen” supper at Giuseppi’s, honoring Chemi Linz Corporation of Austria,
which was to begin construction of a $10 million manufacturing facility in
Evergreen in early 1986. Chemi Linz officials present were Anthony Baker,
project manager, and Dr. Peter Woisetschlager, plant consultant. City officials
present included Mayor Pat Poole and Councilmen Aubrey Padgett, Jones Sasser,
T.L. Sims and John Claiborne, City Clerk Miller Sellers, City Attorney Tommy
Chapman and Chief of Police James Powell.
Nov. 15, 1998 - Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys moved
into third place on the all-time touchdown list when he got his 127th.
Nov. 15, 1998 - Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions
registered his fifth straight 100-yard running game. It was the 75th of his
career.
Nov. 15, 1999 - Mercury transited across the sun. While such
crossings happen about 13 times a century, this was a rare "grazing
occultation" that won't happen again till 2391.
Nov. 15, 2005 - Major League Baseball players and owners
agreed to tougher penalties for steroid use for the next season. The new rules
called for a 50-game suspension for a first offense, 100 games for the second,
a lifetime ban for a third, plus testing for amphetamines.
Nov. 15, 2006 - Emmitt Smith was named winner of ABC's
"Dancing with the Stars."
Nov. 15, 2012 – The Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant in Georgiana
was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.
Nov. 15, 2013 – Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive tackle
and coach Mike McCormack died at the age of 83 in Palm Desert, Calif. During
his career, he played for the University of Kansas, the New York Yanks, the
Dallas Texans and the Cleveland Browns, and he also served as head coach for
the Philadelphia Eagles the Baltimore Colts and the Seattle Seahawks. He was
inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984.
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