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May 7, 1692 – In connection with the Salem witchcraft
trials, George Burroughs was returned to Salem and placed in jail.
May 7, 1718 – The city of New Orleans was founded by
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
May 7, 1748 – Playwright and activist Olympe de Gouges was
born in Montauban, France.
May 7, 1763 - Major Henry Gladwin, British commander of Fort
Detroit, foiled Ottawa Chief Pontiac’s attempt at a surprise attack. Romantic
lore holds that Gladwin’s Seneca mistress informed him of the western Indians’
plans for an uprising.
May 7, 1789 - The first U.S. Presidential Inaugural Ball was
held in New York City.
May 7, 1800 - The U.S. Congress divided the Northwest
Territory into two parts. The western part became the Indiana Territory and the
eastern section remained the Northwest Territory.
May 7, 1806 – Planter and attorney James Edmonds Saunders
was born in Georgia. He and his wife would found the plantation at Rocky Hill
Castle in the mid-1820s between Town Creek and Courtland.
May 7, 1812 – Victorian poet and playwright Robert Browning was
born in Camberwell, England.
May 7, 1824 – The world premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony took place in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by
Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
May 7, 1833 – German composer Johannes Brahms was born in
Hamburg, Germany.
May 7, 1837 - German geographer and explorer Karl Mauch was
born in Stetten im Remstal, Württemberg.
May 7, 1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado struck Natchez,
Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United
States history.
May 7, 1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was
born in Votkinsk, Russia. He wrote symphonies, operas, and three great ballets:
“Swan Lake” (1876), “The Nutcracker” (1892), and “The
Sleeping Beauty” (1889).
May 7, 1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest
surviving weekly newspaper, was published for the first time in Cambridge,
Mass.
May 7, 1861 – The Conecuh Guards (Co. E of the 4th Alabama
Infantry Regiment) was mustered into the Confederate States Army at Lynchburg,
Va.
May 7, 1861 – The day before, the
Tennessee legislature had voted to pass an Ordinance of Secession. The vote,
however, was very narrow, and the split was geographic. West Tennessee sided
with the Confederacy. The eastern part of the state, however, was strongly
pro-Union. On this day, as Gov. Isham Harris was putting the finishing touches
on an alliance with the South, a riot between the factions broke out in
Knoxville. One man was killed in the fighting--which side he was on is not
known--and Harris decided against submitting the issue to popular referendum.
May 7, 1862 – 4th Cpl. Joseph A. Thomas of the Conecuh
Guards was wounded at Battle of Eltham’s Landing, where Confederate troops
attacked Union forces.
May 7, 1862 – During the Civil War,
skirmishes were fought at Crogan’s Ranch, Calif.; at Horse Creek, Mo.; at
Somerville Heights, West Point and Barhamsville, Va.; and in the vicinity of
Wardensville, West Virginia. A Federal operation to Mulberry Point, on the
James River in Virginia was conducted.
May 7, 1863 - Confederate General
Earl Van Dorn was shot dead in his headquarters tent at Spring Hill, Tenn. by a
certain Dr. Peters. Van Dorn was allegedly messing with Dr. Peters’ wife.
May 7, 1863 – During the Civil War,
skirmishes were fought in the San Andres Mountain, at Cajoude Arivaypo, in the
New Mexico Territory; at Raccoon Ford and West Point, Va.; and at Cairo Station
and Harrisville, West Virginia.
May 7, 1864 – 59TH ALABAMA: General Ransom ordered
Bushrod Johnson to Port Walthall Junction, but Gracie’s brigade remained at
Drewry’s Bluff.
May 7, 1864 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought
near Florence and another near Decatur, Ala.
May 7, 1864 - Union General William T. Sherman advanced toward
Atlanta, Georgia.
May 7, 1864 – During the Civil War, following two days of
intense fighting in Virginia’s Wilderness forest, the Army of the Potomac,
under the command of Union General Ulysses S. Grant, moved south. Grant’s
forces had clashed with Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern
Virginia in a pitched and confused two-day battle in which neither side gained
a clear victory. Nonetheless, Lee could claim an advantage, since he inflicted
more casualties and held off the Yankees, despite the fact that he was
outnumbered.
May 7, 1864 – During the Civil War,
skirmishes were fought near Dalton (Battle of Rocky Face Ridge,) Nickajack Gap
and Varnell’s Station, Ga.; at Bayou Boeuf, La.; at Benton, Miss.; and at
Turkey Island, on the James River in Virginia. The Army of the James briefly
seized the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad before retiring.
May 7, 1868 – Samuel S. Cornwell was named postmaster at
Burnt Corn, Ala.
May 7, 1870 – The Monroe Journal reported that the constable
of Winona “lately attempted to arrest two lewd women at the hotel and was
resisted by the probate judge, whom he knocked down. The judge had the
constable arrested for assault and battery, and the constable had the judge
arrested for interfering with him in the discharge of his duty. A justice of
the peace tried the cases and fined the judge and the two women $10 each, and
the hotel keeper $50 for keeping a house of ill fame.”
May 7, 1870 – The Monroe Journal reported, under the
headline “THAT DIFFICULTY,” that the “difficulty that occurred on the river
road near Bell’s Landing, among the road hands, was wound up by the prompt
arrest of a number of the participants, and the matter laid before the grand
jury, then in session. It is not known what disposition the grand jury made of
the affair; but, no doubt, they did their duty.”
May 7, 1870 – The Monroe Journal reported, under the
headline “WHICH IS IT?” that the “Court week just past is said to have been the
most quiet and orderly occasion of the kind that has ever happened in
Monroeville. We heard two old residents say that it could only be accounted for
by the hard times or an improvement in the morals of the people. We can tell
you, gentlemen. It is the superior intelligence of the people, acquired by
reading The Monroe Journal.”
May 7, 1885 – Major and Mrs. Charles Lewis Scott of
Monroeville, along with Colonel and Mrs. B.L. Hibbard and Master John Hibbard,
left for Mobile. A short time before, President Grover Cleveland had appointed
Major Scott to be Minister to Venezuela.
May 7, 1886 – The Monroe Journal reported that the time of
meeting of the Temperance Society had been changed from Tuesday night to
Saturday evening.
May 7, 1886 – The Monroe Journal reported that A.M. Leslie
and W.G. McCorvey returned from Montgomery a few days before.
May 7, 1886 – The Monroe Journal reported that Gen. H.D.
Clayton, Monroe’s “wise choice as a candidate for governor,” was expected to be
in Monroeville in a few days.
May 7, 1886 – The Monroe Journal reported that Dr. G.G.
Stallworth of Evergreen had been professionally engaged in town for a few days.
May 7, 1896 – The Monroe Journal reported that J.M. Lee and
wife arrived in Monroeville a few days before from Waxahatchie, Texas, bringing
the two children that were left orphans by the death of Mr. and Mrs. J.C.
Stallworth a year or so before, and who as a last request committed their
helpless little ones to the tender, fatherly care of their brother, Hon. N.J.
Stallworth.
May 7, 1896 – The Monroe Journal reported, in news from the
Mexia community, that L.N. Lambert had purchased an interest in the mercantile
establishment of Messrs. Sawyer and Brown.
May 7, 1896 – The Monroe Journal reported, in news from the
Jones Mill community, that Jones and Sawyer were putting a front to their store
house.
May 7, 1896 – The Monroe Journal reported, in news from the
Manistee community, that it had been reported that the small pox was raging in
that community, but it was not the small pox residents there were glad to know.
May 7, 1896 – This day’s edition of The Monroe Journal
carried the following advertisement – “I WANT TO BUY: Confederate School Books,
Confederate Bibles, Confederate Prayerbooks, Confederate Sheet Music,
Confederate Song Books, Confederate Stamps, Confederate Magazines, Confederate
Newspapers, Confederate Buttons, Confederate War Buckles, Confederate Paroles,
Confederate Documents, Anything and Everything Published during, or relating to
the late war. Write with stamp to Wm. E. Mickle, Mobile, Ala.”
May 7, 1896 - Q. Salter of Monroeville spent this Thursday
at Mexia registering voters.
May 7, 1898 – The army museum transferred the skull of
Randolph County, Ala. native and Lincoln assassination conspirator Lewis Powell
to the Smithsonian, where it was stored for nearly 100 years.
May 7, 1898 - Prof. C.B. Glenn and Dr. Marcellus McCreary
went fishing on this Saturday and reported the “best luck of any fishermen we
have yet heard from, having caught 103 fishes in exactly 110 minutes,”
according to The Evergreen Courant. “Such royal sport is enjoyed and
appreciated by none more than by a teacher or a pill-roller, unless it is a
weary quill driver.”
May 7, 1905 – On this Sunday afternoon, preaching services
were held for the first time in the recently completed new church building at
Wesly Chapel, near Perdue Hill. The Rev. C.H. Motley was the preacher.
May 7, 1906 – A municipal election was held in Monroeville,
Ala. on this day for the election of mayor and five councilmen for the ensuing
year. J.W. Fore was Monroeville’s incumbent mayor, and he was re-elected in the
election, which was described as a “warm number.” H.C. DuBose, J.I. Watson and
J.B. Barnett were elected as Councilmen.
May 7, 1906 - Capt. Charlie Johnson, the veteran
steamboatman, passed through Monroeville on this Monday en route to River Ridge
to spend a few days with his family.
May 7, 1906 - Major James Tait Beck, 55, probate judge of
Wilcox County, died at an infirmary in Selma on this Monday, where he had been
under medical treatment for several weeks. Judge Beck, a prominent Freemason,
was one of the most popular men in Wilcox County and had held the office of
probate judge for several terms. Born on Feb. 26, 1851, he was buried in the
Camden Cemetery.
May 7, 1906 – Monroe County, Ala. native John Alford
Marshall, 78, died in Appleby, Nacogdochese County, Texas. He served during the
Civil War in Co. H of the 2nd Alabama Cavalry under Capt. James H.
McCreary. After the close of the war, Marshall moved to Panola County, Texas,
but later moved to Nacogdochese County, where he lived until his death. Born on
Sept. 5, 1827 in Alabama, he was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Appleby,
Nacogdochese County, Texas. (His tombstone says that he died on May 5, 1906.)
May 7, 1912 - Columbia University approved final plans for
awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories.
May 7-9, 1912 - The 22nd Annual Reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans was held in Macon, Ga.
May 7, 1914 – Joe Howard Riley was convicted in the Circuit
Court of Wilcox County of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 30 years in
prison.
May 7, 1915
– During World War I, German submarine U-20 sank the RMS Lusitania,
killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking
turned many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
May 7, 1917 - A.C. Lee, Esq., presided “with becoming
dignity” as special judge of the Monroe County court on this Monday “in
consequence of the indisposition of Judge Fountain,” according to The Monroe
Journal.
May 7, 1919 - Dr. Madison Swadener was scheduled to deliver
an address on “American Ideals and World Prohibition” at the Monroe County high
school auditorium on Wednesday evening, May 7, at 8:30. Swadener had the
reputation of being one of the finest speakers in the United States.
May 7, 1920 - Alabama author Robert O. Bowen is born in
Bridgeport, Conn.
May 7, 1925 - The Philadelphia Phillies had their eighth
game in a row postponed.
May 7, 1928 - Alabama author Hudson Strode's play “The
Dance Below” was performed on Broadway as part of the Little Theatre
Tournament.
May 7, 1928 - Alabama journalist Grover Cleveland Hall of The
Montgomery Advertiser was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
for his editorials on racial and religious intolerance and violence.
May 7, 1929 – National Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder,
third baseman and manager Dick Williams was born in St. Louis, Mo. He went on
to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Baltimore Orioles, the Cleveland Indians,
the Kansas City Athletics and the Boston Red Sox. He also managed the Red Sox,
the Oakland Athletics, the California Angels, the Montreal Expos, the San Diego
Padres and the Seattle Mariners. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008.
May 7, 1931 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
paving of the Castleberry-Brewton highway was about half complete.
May 7, 1932 - William Faulkner reported to work as a
screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
May 7, 1933 – Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny
Unitas was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. He went on to play for Louisville, the
Baltimore Colts and the San Diego Chargers. He was inducted into the Hall of
Fame in 1979.
May 7, 1936 – English explorer and author Robin
Hanbury-Tenison was born.
May 7, 1936 – The Andalusia (Ala.) Country Club was
scheduled to hold its largest invitational golf tournament ever.
May 7, 1938 – On this Saturday, the Evergreen Greenies
baseball team played the Panama City Pels in Evergreen, Ala. The game was
called at the end of the ninth inning due to darkness, and the score was 3-3.
May 7, 1940 – British writer Angela Carter was born Angela
Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, England.
May 7-Aug. 20, 1942 – As had been the custom for the past
several years, the stores and offices in Evergreen, Ala. agreed to observe a
“half holiday” on Thursday afternoons during the summer.
May 7, 1942 - The Monroeville golf tournament, which had
been in progress for two weeks, came to a close on this Thursday. B.A. Parnell
defeated Lucian Jones and won first place in the tournament. Other top golfers
in the tournament included A.B. Blass, H.M. Brock, David Edington, E.S.
Gardner, L.L. Hendrix, David Katz, R.M. Lazenby, W.L. Shirah and B.H.
Stallworth.
May 7, 1945 - Baseball owner Branch Rickey announced the
organization of the United States Negro Baseball League, which included six
teams.
May 7, 1946 - An unusually heavy vote was cast in the Monroe
County primary election on this Tuesday. In the race for sheriff, E.E. Nicholas
won over his opponent, J.L. Bowden. In the race for representative, W.W.
Garrett and W.E. Deer will enter the second primary with O.O. McGinty running
third, according to incomplete returns. Melton Linam defeated C.C. Ward and
G.E. Lambert for Commissioner in District One. In District Three, E.M. Deer is
said to have received a majority over his opponents, J.L. Dees and Victor
Salter.
May 7, 1951 – Cleveland Indians pitcher Charles
“Bubba” Harris, a native of Sulligent, Ala., appeared in his last Major League
game.
May 7, 1952 – Geoffrey W.A. Dummer first presented
the concept of the integrated circuit, also known as the microchip,
which is the basis for all modern electronic equipment.
May 7, 1954
– During the Indochina War, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ended in a French
defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13). During the
siege, 1,600 French troops were killed, 4,800 were wounded, and 1,600 missing.
The Viet Minh captured 8,000 French and marched them off on foot on a 500-mile
trek to prison camps; fewer than half survived the march. Viet Minh casualties
were estimated at approximately 7,900 killed and 15,000 wounded.
May 7, 1956 - Bill White of the New York Giants hit a home
run on his first at bat.
May 7, 1957 - Indian's pitcher Herb Score was hit in the
face by a line drive by Gil McDougald.
May 7, 1959 - At Los Angeles Coliseum, 93,103 people watched
the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees.
May 7, 1968 – Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace died in
office of cancer at the age of 41, amid her husband George C. Wallace's ongoing
second presidential campaign. On her death, she was succeeded by Lieutenant
Governor Albert Brewer, who had run without Republican opposition in the
Wallace-Martin race.
May 7, 1968 – Veteran Southern Pine Electric Cooperative
lineman Dewey Frank Nobles, 45, of Evergreen, Ala. died from injuries he
sustained when he fell from an electrical pole while working a little after
noon. A lifelong resident of Evergreen, he served overseas with the U.S. Army
during World War II. Born on Oct. 10, 1922, he was buried in Magnolia Cemetery
in Evergreen. During WWII, he served in 117th Field Artillery, 31st
Infantry Division.
May 7, 1969 – Army Spc. Roosevelt Franklin Penn, 21, of
Fulton in Clarke County, Ala. was killed in action in Vietnam. Born on Jan. 3,
1958, he was buried in the Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery in Clarke County,
Ala.
May 7, 1971 – Charles Johnson first opened his barbershop in
a block building behind Mel’s Dairy Dream on South Alabama Avenue in
Monroeville, Ala., where it remained until 1977 when he moved his shop to Pike
Street.
May 7, 1975 - U.S. President Gerald Ford declared an end to
the Vietnam War.
May 7, 1976
– NBA power forward and center Calvin Booth was born in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. He
went on to play for Penn State and the Washington Wizards, the Dallas
Mavericks, the Seattle Supersonics, the Milwaukee Bucks, the Philadelphia
76ers, the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Sacramento Kings.
May 7, 1976
– Medal of Honor recipient Michael P. Murphy was born in Smithtown, N.Y. He
went on to become a U.S. Navy SEAL officer and was killed at the age of 29
after his team was compromised and surrounded by Taliban forces near Asadabad,
Afghanistan.
May 7, 1981 – The Monroe Journal reported that a local bill
providing for a referendum to determine if Monroe County citizens wanted to
elect their superintendent of schools was scheduled to pass the state Senate on
Wed., May 6, according to State Senator Reo Kirkland of Brewton. In April 1981,
the bill passed the House of Representatives, where it was introduced by Rep.
Jimmy Warren of Castleberry. After the bill’s passage and signing by the
governor, the question of whether the school superintendent should be changed
to an elected position was to be put before county voters during the next
general, special or county-wide election.
May 7, 1981 – The Monroe Journal reported that the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad had announced plans to abandon within three
years a 16-mile spur running from Camden to Nadawah, according to reports from
the Washington Bureau of The Montgomery Advertiser. Nadawah, located near the
Wilcox County line, is a small community in the eastern tip of Monroe County.
May 7, 1982 - A United States Federal jury ruled that the
NFL violated antitrust laws by preventing the Oakland Raiders from moving to
Los Angeles.
May 7, 1983 - August Hoffman performed a record 29,051
consecutive sit-ups.
May 7, 1983 - There was to be a Men’s Class C Softball tournament
on this Saturday at the Evergreen Municipal Park sponsored by the American
Cancer Society. This was to be a double elimination tournament and trophies
were to be awarded to first, second, third and fourth place with individual
first place trophies.
May 7, 1986
– Canadian Patrick Morrow became the first person to climb each of the Seven
Summits.
May 7, 1991 – Anthony Evans, a former Conecuh County, Ala.
resident, was scheduled to appear on the television game show “Wheel of
Fortune” on this Tuesday. Evans, the son of Edgar and Adrain Evens of Freehold,
N.J., was a senior at Freehold High School. He was the grandson of Lou Allen
Evans and the late Ellie Evans of Rt. 1, Evergreen.
May 7, 1992 – Evergreen, Ala. weather reporter Harry Ellis
reported that total rainfall for the month of April 1992 was 3.11 inches.
May 7, 1995 - The Minnesota Twins and the Cleveland Indians
played 17 innings in six hours and 36 minutes. The Twins won, 10-9.
May 7, 1999 - The Harper Lee Award for Alabama's
Distinguished Writer was given to Alabama author Madison Jones at the Alabama
Writers Symposium in Monroeville, Ala.
May 7, 2003 - U.S. President George W. Bush lifted U.S.
sanctions against the old government of Iraq.
May 7, 2006 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit
his 713th home run which brought him one home run away from tying Babe Ruth on
the career list.
May 7, 2007 – Israeli archaeologists discovered the tomb of
Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
May 7, 2017 – A UFO incident took place around midnight on
this Sunday in Montgomery. The witness in this case was standing with a
coworker in a parking lot outside their workplace, taking a break, when they
observed seven, red orbs cross the sky, traveling South-Southwest at a moderate
rate of speed. The witness said they had a hard time telling how high the
objects were in the sky, and the orbs eventually disappeared into the clouds.
“First there were two red orbs observed as they disappeared into the clouds,”
the witness said. “Three more orbs appeared, coming from and going to the same
direction, and as they disappeared, two final orbs appeared coming from and
going to the same direction.” The witness noted that the orbs moved silently,
and he was sure that they were not helicopters or planes. They were all exactly
the same color. The witness wondered if the lights were caused by drones, but
he couldn’t see how seven drones could be controlled by one person.
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