 |
| Francis Drake |
June 6, 1586 – Francis Drake's forces raided St. Augustine
in Spanish Florida.
June 6, 1622 – French-American missionary and explorer
Claude-Jean Allouez was born in Saint-Didier-en-Velay, France. He is best known
for being a Jesuit missionary, who explored North American and founded several
missions, including the St. Francis Xavier Mission in Wisconsin.
June 6, 1755 – American soldier Nathan Hale was born in
Coventry, Connecticut Coloney. He became a soldier in the Continental Army
during American Revolutionary War and is considered to be America's first spy.
He is known for his famous quote "I only regret that I have but one life
to lose for my country."
June 6, 1775 - Marinus Willett and a small group of Sons of
Liberty confronted British soldiers as they were evacuating New York City. They
seized wagonloads of weapons.
June 6, 1799 – Aleksandr Pushkin, the father of modern
Russian literature, was born in Moscow.
June 6, 1812 – The last issue of The Mobile Centinel, the
first newspaper in Alabama, was published at Fort Stoddert. The first issue was
published on May 11, 1811 (some sources say May 23, 1811.)
June 6, 1813 – During the War of 1812, at the Battle of
Stoney Creek, a British force of 700 under John Vincent defeated an American
force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
June 6, 1815 – Rev. William C. Morrow was born in Pulaski
County, Tenn. He went on to become a Presbyterian minister whose first
assignment was to serve Old Flat Creek Church at Turnbull in Monroe County,
Ala.
June 6, 1833 - Andrew Jackson became the first U.S.
president to ride in a train. It was a B&O passenger train.
June 6, 1840 – In this day’s issue of Philadelphia’s
“Saturday Evening Post,” Edgar Allan Poe bought advertising space for the
prospectus of “The Penn,” a monthly literary journal he intended to begin
publishing. The journal was never produced before Poe's death.
June 6, 1849 – Edmund P. Gaines passed away at the age of 76
in New Orleans and was buried in the Church Street Graveyard in Mobile, Ala.
Born in Culpepper County, Va. on March 20, 1777, he and a detachment of mounted
riflemen arrested former Vice President Aaron Burr on the road north of Fort
Stoddert in February 1807 and escorted him to Washington, D.C. for trial on
charges of treason.
June 6, 1862 - On this day, after a lengthy naval battle,
the Union claimed Memphis, Tenn., the Confederacy's fifth-largest city, a naval
manufacturing yard, and a key Southern industrial center.
June 6, 1865 – Confederate soldier Lafayette Washington Duke
of Co. C, 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment was released after taking the Oath of
Allegiance. Wounded and given furlough home to Monroe County on June 27, 1862,
he was taken prisoner at the Wilderness on May 5, 1864, forwarded to Point
Lookout, Md. on May 18, 1864 and then to Elmira Prison, N.Y. on Aug. 15, 1864.
He eventually returned home to Monroe County, became a Baptist minister and
eventually moved to Texas. He is buried in Waco, McLennan County, Texas.
June 6, 1865 - Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill died from
shot in the back that he received while escaping from a Union patrol near
Taylorsville, Ky. He was 27 years old.
June 6, 1868 – English sailor and explorer Robert Falcon
Scott was born in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK. He
led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition,
1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. During the second
venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on Jan. 17,
1912 only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian
expedition.
June 6, 1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroyed all of
downtown Seattle.
June 6, 1890 – Hugh T. Fountain was appointed to another
term as postmaster at Burnt Corn, Ala.
June 6, 1895 – The Monroe Masonic Chapter No. 4 was
scheduled to hold a regular convocation in the Masonic Hall at Perdue Hill,
Ala. at 10 a.m. to elect officers, pay dues and handle other business maters.
June 6, 1907 – National Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Bill
Dickey was born in Bastrop, La. He played his entire career for the New York
Yankees. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1954.
June 6, 1915 – 1,600 pounds of dynamite in a warehouse of
the Blacksher Warehouse Co. at Uriah, Ala. exploded on this Sunday afternoon.
The explosion, which was felt and heard for miles around, injured seven people,
but no one was killed. The warehouse and two residences were destroyed, debris
was scattered for some distance, but the cause of the explosion was unknown.
June 6, 1925 – Hall of Fame Alabama high school football
coach and former Livingston College coach Morris Higginbotham was born in
Birmingham, Ala.
June 6, 1925 – Poet Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia.
June 6, 1933 – The first drive-in theater opened in Camden,
New Jersey.
June 6, 1934 - Myril Hoag of the New York Yankees hit six
singles in a game against the Boston Red Sox.
June 6, 1939 - The New York Giants hit five home runs in the
fourth inning in a 17-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
June 6, 1944 – Major Vernon “Junie” Burns of Megargel, Ala.
was severely wounded while commanding a 70-man landing craft at Normandy Beach
when their boat struck a mine. He’d played guard on Auburn’s football team for
three seasons prior to this. His leg was later amputated, but he received a
Silver Star for valor in combat for preventing 11 of his men from drowning.
June 6, 1946 – The National Basketball Association was
created with eleven teams.
June 6, 1948 – The Rev. Sam Granade preached his first
sermon in Evergreen, Ala. as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Evergreen.
June 6, 1949 - George Orwell’s novel of a dystopian future, “Nineteen Eighty-four,” was first published.
June 6, 1950 – The first issue of "The Frisco City
Sun" was published. The last issue was published on Aug. 29, 1951.
June 6, 1965 - Tom Tresh of the New York Yankees hit home
runs on three consecutive at-bats against the Chicago White Sox.
June 6, 1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44
a.m. in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was was shot the
evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.
June 6, 1972 – Monroe County High School left-handed pitcher
Larry Snowden was selected in the 30th round of the 1972 MLB June Amateur Draft
by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
June 6, 1992 - Eddie Murray passed Mickey Mantle on the
all-time switch-hitter RBI list. Mantle held the record at 1,509.
June 6, 1996 – Sixteen guests and staff members at the
Craigcarroch House Hotel on the shore of Loch Ness reported having seen the
powerful wake of some large marine creature moving across the lake for five to
10 minutes. Although none of the witnesses to the event said that they actually
saw Nessie, Kate Munro, one of the hotel’s owners, said that it had to have
been a very large creature to create such a frothy disturbance and to move in a
zigzagging motion on an otherwise placid lake surface.
June 6, 1996 - John Valentin became the 14th player in
Boston Red Sox history to hit on all at-bats during a game. He hit for the
cycle when he went 4-for-4 against the Chicago White Sox.
June 6, 1996 - Baseball's executive council told Marge
Schott, owner of the Cincinnati Reds, to give up day-to-day operations within a
week or face a suspension of more than a year. Schott had caused controversy
with comments she made concerning Adolph Hitler in an ESPN interview.
June 6, 2001 - U.S. District Court Judge Matsch rejected a
request to delay the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy
McVeigh. The date was left at June 11.
June 6, 2002 – In what is now called the “Eastern
Mediterranean Event,” a near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter
exploded over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting
explosion was estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful
than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
June 6, 2003 - The Seattle Mariners were defeated by the New
York Mets to end their 13-game road winning streak.
June 6, 2008 – The Huntsville Stars retired former president
and general manager Don Mincher’s No. 5 jersey in an on-field ceremony even
though he never played for the team.
No comments:
Post a Comment