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June 1, 1637 – French missionary and explorer Jacques
Marquette was born in Laon, Kingdom of France.
June 1, 1774 - The British government ordered the Port of
Boston closed, and the Boston Port Act demanded payment for the tea destroyed
in the Boston Tea Party event before the port could reopen for any imports but
food.
June 1, 1776 - Patriots attempted to knock the light out of
the Sandy Hook lighthouse. They did not succede. The lighthouse is the oldest
in the United States.
June 1, 1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental
Army during the American Revolutionary War, was court-martialed in
Philadelphia, Pa. for malfeasance. He was charged with 13 counts of misbehavior
and illegally buying and selling goods.
June 1, 1792 - Kentucky became the 15th state of the U.S.
June 1, 1796 - Tennessee became the 16th state of the U.S.
June 1, 1800 - Alabama author Caroline Lee Hentz was born in
Lancaster, Mass.
June 1, 1825 – During his tour of the United States, the
Marquis de Lafayette arrived in Butler, Pa., where he stayed overnight.
June 1, 1825 – Future Confederate general and cavalry
officer John Hunt Morgan was born in Huntsville, Ala.
June 1, 1831 – British explorer James Clark Ross became the
first European at the Magnetic North Pole. However, this location gradually
moves over time, and it's currently drifting away from North America towards
Siberia.
June 1, 1843 - It snowed in Buffalo, Rochester and
Cleveland.
June 1, 1855 – The American adventurer William Walker
conquered Nicaragua.
June 1, 1861 – Thomas W. Simpson, an early Conecuh County,
Ala. settler and Freemason, died at his home near Belleville.
June 1, 1861 – During the Civil War, at the Battle of
Fairfax Court House, the first land battle of the American Civil War after the
Battle of Fort Sumter occurred, producing the first Confederate combat
casualty.
June 1, 1862 – During the Civil War’s Peninsula Campaign,
the Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ended inconclusively,
with both sides claiming victory. Gen. Robert E. Lee replaced Joseph Johnston
as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia after Johnston was severely
wounded at the Battle of Fair Oaks.
June 1, 1864 - The Battle of Cold Harbor began when
Confederate troops attacked Union troops a few miles from Richmond, Va.
June 1, 1864 - Cavalry troops under General Samual D.
Sturgis left Memphis in search of Confederate commander Nathan Bedford Forrest.
June 1, 1868 - The fifteenth president of the United States,
James Buchanan, died at the age of 77 in Lancaster, Pa.
June 1, 1871 – Eighteen-year-old hired trail boss John
Wesley Hardin, one of the deadliest men in the history of the Old West, who
lived in Pollard, Ala. for several years, arrived with his cattle herd in
Abilene, Kansas, where he briefly became friends with Town Marshal Wild Bill
Hickok. During his stay in Abilene, Hardin rented a room at the American House
Hotel and shot a stranger in the next room to death for snoring too loudly.
June 1, 1878 – Poet John Masefield was born in Ledbury,
England. Masefield was chosen as the U.K.’s poet laureate in 1930 and kept the
post for 37 years.
June 1, 1889 – Editor, translator, journalist and linguist
Charles Kay Ogden was born in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England.
June 1, 1895 – The Monroe County Board of Confederate
Pension Examiners was scheduled to meet at the Monroe County Courthouse.
Members of the board included Capt. Thomas A. Nettles, John I. Watson and Thos.
A. Rumbly.
June 1, 1909 – The 16th Annual commencement exercises of the
Southwest Alabama Agricultural School in Evergreen took place. The graduates
included Virginia Witherington, Maude S. Lowery, Sadie Moorer, Mary E.
Stallworth, Mae Binion, Lois Mixon, Chas. R. Wiggins, Andrew T. Riley and Paul
P. Salter. Speeches were delivered by Gov. B.B. Comer and State Treasurer W.D.
Seed of Tuscaloosa. School President H.T. Lile delivered the diplomas.
June 1, 1910 – The engine house of the Monroeville, Ala.
waterworks was destroyed by fire, putting the plant out of commission and
causing a serious water shortage. The plant was restarted within 20 to 30
hours.
June 1, 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole
expedition left Cardiff.
June 1, 1915 – The third day of Monroe County High School’s
four-day fourth-annual commencement exercises continued on this Tuesday with a
baseball game between MCHS and Finchburg at 3:30 p.m. A declamation contest was
held at 8 p.m.
June 1, 1915 – Graduation exercises were scheduled to be
held at Conecuh County High School in Castleberry, Ala. J.B. Hobdy with the
Department of Educaiton in Montgomery was to give the graduation address and
present diplomas to graduates.
June 1-3, 1915 – The 25th Annual Renuion of United
Confederate Veterans was held in Richmond, Va. A special round-trip train
ticket from Evergreen, Ala. to the reunion and back cost $16.35.
June 1, 1923 - The New York Giants beat the Philadelphia
Phillies, 22-8. The Giants scored in every inning of the game.
June 1, 1925 – Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig began his
legendary consecutive games played streak when Yankees manager Miller Huggins
sent Gehrig in to pinch hit for Paul “Pee-Wee” Wanninger against the Senators,
and for the next 14 seasons – despite a fractured rib, broken toe, sore back
and numerous other ailments – Gehrig played in every game. In all, the played
in 2,130 consecutive games, and his streak ended on May 2, 1939.
June 1, 1937 - Author Olivia Solomon was born in Tallassee,
Ala.
June 1, 1937 – Writer and neuroscientist Collen McCullough
was born in Wellington, Australia.
June 1, 1938 - Baseball helmets were worn for the first
time.
June 1, 1941 - Mel Ott hit the 400th home run of his career.
He also drove in his 1,500th career run.
June 1, 1950 - Author Michael McDowell was born in
Enterprise, Ala.
June 1, 1956 - The NAACP was barred from operating in
Alabama. Montgomery County Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones issued the order at
the request of Attorney General John Patterson, who argued that the NAACP was
not properly registered in the state. Jones also fined the organization
$100,000 and ordered it to turn over its records and membership lists to the
state. The ban lasted until October 1964.
June 1, 1961 – Birmingham, Ala. native Lee May signed an
amateur free agent contract with the Cincinnati Reds with a $12,000 bonus.
June 1, 1961 - Radio listeners in New York, California and
Illinois were introduced to FM multiplex stereo broadcasting. A year later, the
FCC made this a standard.
June 1, 1963 - Governor George Wallace vowed to defy an
injunction that ordered the integration of the University of Alabama.
June 1, 1967 – “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by
the Beatles was released for the first time.
June 1, 1968 – Wolff Motor Co. in Evergreen, Ala. first
opened when owner Pete Wolff purchased his first vehicle for sale.
June 1, 1968 – Helen Adams Keller passed away at the age of
87 in Easton, Conn.
June 1, 1972 - At Abbey Road Studios in London, Pink Floyd
began recording their album "Dark Side of the Moon."
June 1, 1973 – On a short run from Fort Lauderdale to
Freeport in the Bermuda Triangle, pilot Reno Rigoni and copilot Bob Corner
disappeared in a Cessna 180.
June 1, 1974 – Henry Jay Heimlich published his “Heimlich
maneuver” in the “Journal of Emergency Medicine.”
June 1, 1975 - Nolan Ryan pitched his fourth career
no-hitter in his 100th career victory.
June 1, 1980 – The Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut
as the first all-news station.
June 1, 1980 - Steve Garvey hit the 7,000th home run for the
Dodgers.
June 1, 1980 – National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube
Marquard passed away at the age of 93 in Baltimore, Md. During his career, he
played for the New York Giants, the Brooklyn Robins, the Cincinnati Reds and
the Boston Braves. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971.
June 1, 1992 – Monroe Academy grad B.J. Wallace drafted in
the first round of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft by the Montreal Expos.
June 1, 1996 - Alabama author Jesse Hill Ford died in
Nashville, Tenn.
June 1, 2000 - Dr. Woodrow Eddins, longtime Monroeville
physician, passed away.
June 1, 2003 – The Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum on the
campus of Alabama Southern Community College in Thomasville, Ala. was dedicated
on June 1, 2003, Windham's 85th birthday.
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