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April 29, 1770 – James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay,
Australia.
April 29, 1776 - General George Washington ordered Brigadier
General Nathanael Greene to take command of Long Island and set up defensive
positions against a possible British attack on New York City.
April 29, 1776 – English explorer and author Edward Wortley
Montagu passed away in Padua, Italy at the age of 62.
April 29, 1781 – During the Revolutionary War, British and
French ships clashed in the Battle of Fort Royal, off the coast of Martinique.
April 29–30, 1825 – During his tour of the United States,
the Marquis de Lafayette visited St. Louis, Missouri.
April 29, 1852 - The first edition of Peter Roget's
Thesaurus was published.
April 29, 1859 – Property in Monroeville, Ala. for a new
jail was purchased from John B. Welch and his wife, Rosanne, for $50.
April 29, 1861 – During the Civil War, Maryland's House of
Delegates voted not to secede from the Union.
April 29, 1862 – During the Civil War, New Orleans fell to
Union forces under Admiral David Farragut. Union troops officially took
possession of the city after the surrender of Fort Jackson and Fort. St.
Phillip, completing the occupation that had begun four days earlier on April
25.
April 29, 1863 - Union Colonel Abel Streight's command was
attacked by troops under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford
Forrest. On this day, the Union had set a trap and held the Confederates under
fire and wounded Captain William Forrest (Nathan Bedford's brother).
April 29, 1863 – Poet C.P. Cavafy was born in Alexandria,
Egypt.
April 29, 1863 - American newspaper magnate and newspaper
publisher William Randolph Hearst was born in San Fransico, Calif.
April 29, 1864 – Theta Xi fraternity was founded at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the Civil War.
April 29, 1865 – Confederate General Richard Taylor
negotiated a ceasefire with Union General Edward Canby at Magee Farm in Kushla,
near Mobile. These were the preliminary arrangements for the surrender of the
last Confederate States Army east of the Mississippi River. Taylor's forces,
comprising 47,000 Confederate troops serving in Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, were the last remaining Confederate force east of the Mississippi
River.
April 29, 1899 – Bandleader, pianist and composer Edward
Kennedy, better known as Duke Ellington, was born in Washington, D.C.
April 29, 1903 – The Evergreen Courant reported that H.E.
Shaver had picked up in Evergreen, Ala. wire and insulators to be used in the
construction of a telephone line from Mt. Union and Herbert to Evergreen, Ala.,
which was due to be complete that week. Shaver noted that the line would likely
be extended to Brooklyn, a distance of about 11 miles.
April 29, 1903 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Charles
J. Crawford and William H. Crawford had passed the bar exam.
April 29, 1909 – The Conecuh Record reported that “one
automobile may now be seen on the streets of Evergreen, being owned by Hon.
Jas. F. Jones. No doubt many more will be seen here before many weeks.” On May
5, Jones and Henry Hawthorne would travel to Monroeville in Jones’ new
automobile.
April 29, 1909 – Before a large crowd, Evergreen beat
Andalusia in baseball, 4-3, in 10 innings.
April 29, 1912 – C.A. Thames, 82, of Brooklyn, Ala. passed
away at his family home in Brooklyn. He was buried the following day with full Masonic
honors.
April 29, 1928 - A movie version of Alabama author Jack
Bethea's book “Honor Bound” was
released.
April 29, 1931 – Editor Robert Gottlieb was born in New York
City.
April 29, 1934 – Pro Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Luis
Aparicio was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He went on to play for the Chicago
White Sox, the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Red Sox. He was inducted into
the Hall of Fame in 1934.
April 29, 1941 - The Boston Bees agreed to change their name
to the Braves.
April 29, 1945 – During World War II, Adolf Hitler married
his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designated Admiral Karl
Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following
day.
April 29, 1948 – Charles “Bubba” Harris, a native
of Sulligent, Ala., made his Major League debut as a pitcher for the Philadelphia
Athletics.
April 29, 1948 – The Evergreen Courant reported that pitcher
James Carpenter and R.E. Ivey, both of Evergreen, Ala., played leading parts in
a recent, 8-2 Sunflower Trojan baseball victory over East Mississippi.
Carpenter struck out 12, and Ivey hit a crucial double. Grissett and Tolbert
also hit doubles in the game.
April 29, 1948 – The Evergreen Courant reported that during
a recent meeting, the newly organized Evergreen (Ala.) Chapter of the Order of
Demolay elected officers. Those officers included George Hendrix, M.C.; John
Ellis, Sr. C.; Joe Andrews, Jr. C.; Curtis Walker, Scribe; Wayne Cook, Treas.;
T.Y. Henderson, S.D.; Dudley Bartlett, J.D.; Bert Gaston, Sentinel; Jeff
Moorer, S. Steward; P.J. Godwin, Jr. Steward; R.J. Sanford, Jr. Marchal; Willie
Cobb, Jr. Alamaner; Junior Ward, Chaplain; Shelton Craig, Standard Bearer;
Gwynn Daniels, Orator; Wayne Congleton, 1st Preceptor; Sidney Williamson, 2nd
Preceptort; Billie Langham, 3rd Preceptor; Georgie Brown, 4th Preceptor.
April 29, 1952 - Controversial speaker and author David Icke
was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
April 29, 1953 - The first experimental 3D-TV broadcast took
place in the US with a showing of an episode of “Space Patrol.”
April 29, 1957 - The Boston Red Sox traded Mobile, Alabama’s
Milt Bolling along with Russ Kemmerer and Faye Throneberry to the Washington
Senators for Bob Chakales and Dean Stone. Milt was immediately put to work with
the Senators, starting at shortstop occasionally in May and June before
becoming their everyday starter from July through the end of the season.
April 29, 1957 – Conecuh County’s annual Fat Calf Show was
scheduled to be held with 26 4H Club and FFA members participating.
April 29, 1963 – A meeting of the Evergreen Junior Baseball
League was scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Conecuh County Courthouse in Evergreen,
Ala. The league’s officers included Earl Windham, President; Ed Smith, Vice
President; Leslie Huggins, Secretary-Treasurer; Ray Owens, Player Manager; Joe
Sasser, Chief Scorer; and Henry Allman, Chief Umpire.
April 29, 1967 - Alabama author Mary Elizabeth Vroman died
in Brooklyn, N.Y.
April 29, 1974 – Dr. Cecil E. Price, 51, died from “as the
result of massive heart failure” at his office. He practiced medicine in
Conecuh County, Ala. for over a quarter of a century and at one time was the
only physician in practice in the county.
April 29, 1974 – Birmingham, Ala. native Lee May became the
17th player in MLB history to hit two home runs in one inning.
April 29, 1979 - The final episode of "Battlestar
Galactica" was aired on ABC.
April 29, 1981 - Steve Carlton, of the Philadelphia
Phillies, became the first left-handed pitcher in the major leagues to get
3,000 career strikeouts.
April 29, 1985 - Billy Martin was brought back, for the
fourth time, to the position of manager for the New York Yankees.
April 29, 1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City
of Los Angeles Public Library damaged or destroyed 400,000 books and other
items.
April 29, 1986 - Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox set a
major-league baseball record by striking out 20 Seattle Mariner batters.
April 29, 1988 - The Baltimore Orioles set a new major
league baseball record by losing their first 21 games of the season.
April 29, 1994 – Episode No. 22 of “The X-Files” – entitled
“Born Again” – aired for the first time.
April 29, 2002 - Darryl Strawberry was sentenced to 18
months in prison for violating his probation on a 1999 conviction on drug and
solicitation of prostitution charges.
April 29, 2014 – Former Beatrice, Ala. mayor Alan Bishop, a
native of Haleyville, passed away at his home at the age of 57.
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