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| Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville |
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, 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. (13 Alabama Ghosts)
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. He reported on the archaeological
ruins of Great Zimbabwe in 1871 during his search for the biblical land of
Ophir.
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, 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, 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, the Army of the Potomac,
under General Ulysses S. Grant, broke off from two days of intense fighting at
the Battle of the Wilderness and moved southwards toward Spotsylvania Court
House. Confederate General Robert E. Lee sent James Longstreet's corps to the
same location.
May 7, 1868 – Samuel S. Cornwell was named postmaster at
Burnt Corn, Ala.
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, 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, 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 – Pro 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, 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-Aug. 20, 1942 – As had been the custom for the past
several years, the stores and offices in Evergreen agreed to observe a “half
holiday” on Thursday afternoons during the summer.
May 7, 1945 - Baseball owner Branch Rickey announced the
organization of the United States Negro Baseball League, which included six
teams.
May 7, 1951 – Cleveland Indians pitcher Charles
“Bubba” Harris, a native of Sulligent, Ala., appeared in his last Major League
game.
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, 1969 – Army Spc. Roosevelt Franklin Penn of Fulton in
Clarke County, Ala. was killed in action in Vietnam.
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, 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, 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.
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