Baseball legend Cy Young. |
July 12, circa 100 B.C. – Gaius Julius Caesar was born in
Rome. He was the great military leader who managed to capture for the Roman
Empire most of what became France and Great Britain.
July 12, 1389 – King Richard II appointed poet Geoffrey
Chaucer to the position of Chief Clerk of the King’s Works in Westminster.
Chaucer is best remembered for his greatest work, “The Canterbury Tales.”
July 12, 1493 – Hartmann Schedel's “Nuremberg Chronicle,”
one of the best-documented early printed books, was published.
July 12, 1562 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of
Yucatán, burned the sacred books of the Maya.
July 12, 1584 – English navigator and explorer Steven
Borough passed away at the age of 58 and was buried at Chatham.
July 12, 1776 – Captain James Cook began his third voyage.
July 12, 1780 – In what is known as the Battle of Huck’s
Defeat, Philadelphia lawyer Captain Christian Huck and 130 Loyalist cavalry,
belonging to British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton’s legion, suffered
defeat at the hands of 500 Patriot militiamen at Williamson’s Plantation in
South Carolina. The British lost between 25 and 50 men killed, including Huck,
at least twice as many wounded and 29 captured. Only one Patriot died, and
Continental morale received a significant a boost.
July 12, 1804 - In Weehawken, N.J., former U.S. Secretary of
the Treasurery Alexander Hamilton died from a wound he suffered in a duel with
Aaron Burr the day before. Hamilton was either 47 or 49 years old.
July 12, 1817 – Author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, tax
resister and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Mass.
July 12, 1861 - Special Confederate commissioner Albert Pike
completed treaties with the members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, giving
the new Confederate States of America several allies in Indian Territory. Some
of these tribes even sent troops to serve in the Confederate army, and one
Cherokee, Stand Watie, rose to the rank of brigadier general.
July 12, 1862 – The Medal of Honor was created when
President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a measure calling for the awarding of
a U.S. Army Medal of Honor, in the name of Congress, "to such
noncommissioned officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by
their gallantry in action, and other soldier-like qualities during the present
insurrection."
July 12, 1862 - The Confederate ironclad Arkansas was
completed and steered down the Yazoo and into the Mississippi River. The ship
lasted only 23 days before running aground and being blown up by the crew on
August 6 to avoid capture.
July 12, 1862 – During the Civil War, a five-day Federal
operation began in the vicinity of Decatur, Ala. with a skirmish near Davis
Gap.
July 12, 1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed the
battle where Union forces repelled Jubal Early's army on the outskirts of
Washington, DC.
July 12, 1892 – Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., the inventor
of the modern game of baseball, passed away in Honolulu,
O'ahu, Kingdom of Hawai'I at the age of 72.
July 12, 1901 - Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox got his 300th
career victory. He ended his career with 511 wins.
July 12, 1904 – Poet Pablo Neruda was born Neftali Ricardo
Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile.
July 12, 1912 – Evergreen’s baseball team beat Pollard, 1-0,
in Evergreen, Ala.
July 12, 1915 – Wiley House returned home on this Monday
after spending several days with his sister Mrs. C.A. Sinquefield. He was fully
recovered from the pistol and knife wounds he received from John Salter and
Robert Watkins on June 23, 1915.
July 12, 1918 – Croatian explorer Dragutin Lerman died at
the age of 54 in Kreševo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where his gravestone is still
visible. He was a member of the 1882 Henry Morton Stanley expedition to Congo
and was one of Stanley's most trusted men.
July 12, 1930 – The thermometer at the Evergreen, Ala.
weather observation station registered a high mark of 107.5 degrees on this day
and the day before.
July 12, 1931 - A major league baseball record for doubles
was set as the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs combined for a total of
23.
July 12, 1946 - "The Adventures of Sam Spade" was
heard on ABC radio for the first time.
July 12, 1954 - The Major League Baseball Players
Association was organized in Cleveland, Ohio.
July 12, 1978 – The Wilson-Finlay House (also known as Mist
Lady, the Joshua Wilson House and the Finlay House) in Gainestown in Clarke
County, Ala. was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
July 12, 1979 – The infamous “Disco Demolition” night was
held at Comiskey Park in Chicago, which led to at least nine injuries, 39
arrests and the cancellation and forfeiture of the second game of a
doubleheader between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers.
July 12, 1980 – Local weather reporter Earl Windham reported
a high temperature of 101 degrees in Evergreen, Ala.
July 12, 1980 – Brenda Joy Yancey, 34, drowned in the
Sepulga River at Cobb’s Landing at about 8:30 p.m.
July 12, 1982 - "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial"
broke all box-office records by surpassing the $100-million mark of ticket
sales in the first 31 days of its opening.
July 12, 1984 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
members of the Evergreen Little League All Star team were Richard Melton, Keith
Richardson, Broderick Gross, Bryan Garrett, Ryan Burt, Mickey Jones, Michael
Floyd, Kevin Townson, Jamie Deason, Greg Stanton, Jamie Shipp, Scott Jones,
Richard Byrd and Kenny Meeks. The coaches were Willie Byrd and Earnest Boykin.
July 12, 1984 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies
recorded his 100th strikeout for the 18th consecutive season.
July 12, 2000 - The movie "X-Men" premiered in New
York.
July 12, 2010 – The Wiggins Cemetery at Mexia, Ala. was
added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register.
July 12, 2010 – Alabama native Bo Jackson threw the
ceremonial first pitch before the 2010 Home Run Derby at Angel Stadium in
Anaheim California and participated in the celebrity softball game.
July 12, 2015 - In Gothenburg, Sweden, Dave Grohl of the Foo
Fighters fell off the stage and broke his leg. He had his leg set backstage and
returned to perform more songs.
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