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| Lewis Powell |
April 14, 1775 – The first abolition society in North America
was established when the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held
in Bondage was organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin
Rush. In 1784, the society changed its name to the Pennsylvania Society for
Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully
Held in Bondage.
April 14, 1828 – Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of the
English Language” was published.
April 14, 1860 – The first Pony
Express rider reached San Francisco, Calif. from St. Joseph, Mo. The pony
riders carried additionally, along with the mail, a small personal bible.
April 14, 1863 – William Bullock
patented the modern printing press in Baltimore, Md. His invention was the
first rotary printing press to self-feed the paper, print on both sides, and
count its own progress — meaning that newspapers, which had until then relied
on an operator manually feeding individual sheets of paper into a press, could
suddenly increase their publication exponentially.
April 14, 1865 – U.S. Secretary of
State William H. Seward and his family were attacked in his home by Lewis
Powell, a native of Randolph County, Ala.
April 14, 1865 – Just five days
after the surrender of the Civil War’s Confederate leader, General Lee, U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary attended the play "Our
American Cousin" at Ford's Theater. At 10:13 p.m., during the third act of
the play, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head. Lincoln never regained
consciousness and died the next morning.
April 14, 1865 – Having received orders from Union General
Edward Canby to return to Blakeley, Union
Brigadier General T.J. Lucas left Claiborne, Ala. with prisoners,
wounded and some 350 “contrabands” who came into his lines, and moved back upon
the river road by which Lucas came, reaching Stockton on April 17.
April 14, 1865 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought
near Tuskegee, Ala. on the Columbus Road.
April 14, 1865 - The Stars and Stripes was ceremoniously
raised over Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
April 14, 1866 - Anne Sullivan Macy, tutor and companion to
Alabama author Helen Keller, was born in Feeding Hills, Mass.
April 14, 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the kinetoscope,
a viewing device that was a precursor to the film projector.
April 14, 1910 - U.S. President William Howard Taft threw
out the first ball for the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.
April 14, 1911 – Pro Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Addie
Joss passed away at the age of 31 in Toledo, Ohio. He played his entire career
for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1978.
April 14, 1912 – The British passenger liner
RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage, hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic at
23:40 and began to sink. In all, 1,517 people lost their lives and more than
700 survived.
April 14, 1914 – Hail and windstorm that night did
considerable damage to the strawberry crop in Conecuh County, Ala.
April 14, 1915 – The Evergreen Courant reported that F.S.
Stallworth had purchased the grocery business of R.P. Millsap & Co. The
Courant also reported that Mrs. M.D. Wiggins of Monroeville, Ala. had assumed charge
of the Jones House on the corner next to the Methodist Church and planned to
run a hotel out of the location.
April 14, 1925 - WGN became the first radio station to
broadcast a regular season Major League Baseball game. The Cubs beat the
Pirates, 8-2.
April 14, 1934 – Major League Baseball outfielder Marty
Keough was born in Oakland, Calif. He went on to play for the Boston Red Sox,
the Cleveland Indians, the Washington Senators, the Cincinnati Reds, the
Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs.
April 14, 1939 – “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck was
first published by the Viking Press.
April 14, 1941 – Controversial Major League Baseball
outfielder, infielder and manager Pete Rose was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He
went on to play for the Cincinnati Reds, the Philadelphia Phillies and the
Montreal Expos, and he managed the Reds from 1984 to 1989.
April 14, 1942 – Inverness, Ala. native Billy Hitchcock made
his Major League debut, taking the field for the first time for the Detroit
Tigers.
April 14, 1955 - In a ceremony at Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Ala., Wernher von Braun and 102 other German-born scientists, technicians, and family members based at Redstone Arsenal became American citizens. Recruited to the United States at the end of World War II, the scientists conducted rocket research crucial to the development of the U.S. space program.
April 14, 1960 – Evergreen High School’s baseball team
played Escambia County High School in the conference championship game in
Atmore, Ala. Evergreen entered the game 4-0 with wins over conference opponents,
W.S. Neal and Flomaton. Jeff Moorer was Evergreen’s head coach and players on
the team included Billy Bateman, pitcher; Billy Melton, catcher; Leon Stinson,
first base; Jacob Coleman, second base; Shannon Griggers, third base; James
Reeves, shortstop; Jerry Windham, left field; Johnny Ivey, center field; and
Jimmy Eddins, right field.
April 14, 1965 – Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were hanged
at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing for the 1959 murder of the Herbert
Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. Their crime became the subject of Truman
Capote’s book, “In Cold Blood.”
April 14, 1966 – Pro Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Greg
Maddux was born in San Angelo, Texas. During his career, he played for the
Chicago Cubs, the Atlanta Braves, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego
Padres. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2014.
April 14, 1966 – Baseball hall of fame pitcher Don Sutton,
who was born in Clio, Ala., made his major league debut as a member of the Los
Angeles Dodgers.
April 14, 1966 – Charles C. Higdon, a 23-year-old, 1960
graduate of Evergreen High School, was commissioned an Army 2nd Lt. after
graduating from the Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga.
April 14, 1966 – Burglars cracked the safe at the
Conecuh-Monroe Counties Gas District office and got away with over $1,500, but
most of the loot (around $900) was in checks that had been marked “for deposit
only.”
April 14, 1969 - For the first time, a major league baseball
game was played in Montreal, Canada.
April 14, 1969 – Major League Baseball catcher and manager
Brad Ausmus was born in New Haven, Conn. He went on to play for the San Diego
Padres, the Detroit Tigers, the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
April 14, 1975 – German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and
explorer Günter Dyhrenfurth passed away at the age of 88. He led the
International Himalaya Expedition (IHE) 1930 to Kangchenjunga, and another one,
IHE 1934, to the Baltoro-region in the Karakorams, especially to explore the
Gasherbrum-Group.
April 14, 1978 – Pro Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman
Joe Gordon passed away at the age of 63 in Sacramento, Calif. During his
career, he played for the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians, and he
also managed the Indians, the Detroit Tigers, the Kansas City Athletics and the
Kansas City Royals. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2009.
April 14, 1986 – The heaviest hailstones ever recorded
(2.2 lb) fell on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
April 14, 1990 - Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles began a
streak of 95 errorless games and 431 total chances by a shortstop.
April 14, 1992 – The Sterrett House in Camden, Ala. was
added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.
April 14, 1999 – The Sydney Hailstorm turned out to be one
of Australia's costliest natural disasters, with 500,000 tons of hailstones,
some as large as 3.5 inches in diameter, hitting New South Wales.
April 14, 1999 - Jose Canseco of the Tampa Bay Rays became
the 28th player to hit 400 career home runs. He was also the first non-United
States born player to hit 400 runs.
April 14, 2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad captured Abu Abbas,
leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise
liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
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