Barbara Ann Allen Rainey |
July 13, 1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir
Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, N.C.
July 13, 1787 – The Continental Congress, under the Articles
of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules
for the Northwest Territory. It also established procedures for the admission
of new states and limited the expansion of slavery.
July 13, 1793 – English poet John Clare was born in
Helpston, Northamptonshire.
July 13, 1798 – English Romantic poet William Wordsworth
first saw the ruins of Tintern Abbey while on a walking tour of Wales with his
sister, Dorothy. This experience inspired his poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles
above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13,
1798.” Wordsworth claimed the 1,200 lines came to him with the greatest of
ease, entirely in his head.
July 13, 1824 - Marquis de Lafayette left France on the
American merchant vessel Cadmus, headed to America for his extended tour of the
United States.
July 13, 1832 - Henry Schoolcraft discovered the source of
the Mississippi River in Minnesota.
July 13, 1861 - Union General George B. McClellan
distinguished himself by routing Confederates under General Robert Garnett at
the Battle of Corrick's Ford in western Virginia. The battle ensured Yankee
control of the region, secured the Union's east-west railroad connections, and
set in motion the events that would lead to the creation of West Virginia. The
battle resulted in 70 Confederate casualties (including the death of Garnett,
the first general officer to die in the war) and 10 Union casualties.
July 13, 1863 - A nine-day Federal military operation began
in and about Huntsville, Ala.
July 13, 1863 – In what is now known as the “New York City
Draft Riots, opponents of conscription began three days of rioting in New York
City, which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history. Order
was not restored until Union soldiers returned from Gettysburg, and the riots
resulted in more than 1,000 casualties.
July 13, 1864 – During the Civil War, skirmishes occurred
near Greenpoint, Ten Islands and near the Coosa River at Stone’s Ferry, Ala.
July 13, 1865 – In the aftermath of the Civil War, President
Andrew Johnson named William Marvin as provisional governor of Florida.
July 13, 1896 - Philadelphia’s Ed Delahanty became the
second major league player to hit four home runs in a single game.
July 13, 1909 – The Nashville Americans played Greenville’s
baseball team in Greenville, Ala.
July 13, 1915 – The Evergreen City School’s board of
trustees elected the following teachers, all female, for the coming school year
– Ethel King, principal; Willie Cunningham, Sue Stallworth and Mae Simmons,
teachers; and Mary McCreary, assistant.
July 13, 1919 – The British airship R34 landed in Norfolk,
England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182
hours of flight.
July 13, 1923 – The Hollywood Sign was officially dedicated
in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It originally reads
"Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after
renovation in 1949. Originally built as an advertisement for the
"Hollywoodland" housing community, the landmark has since become an
icon of the entertainment industry. Over the years, the sign was subject to a
conspiracy to steal its letters, the deterioration and loss of the
"H" and two "O's", and, ultimately, adoption by the
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which dropped the "land" portion of
the sign.
July 13, 1939 – Evergreen’s baseball team was scheduled to
play a double header against Atmore in Atmore, Ala. on this Thursday afternoon.
July 13, 1940 - Author Dorothy Baughman was born in
Prattville, Ala.
July 13, 1944 - Erno Rubik, the creator of Rubik's Cube
puzzle, was born in Budapest, Hungary.
July 13, 1960 - John F. Kennedy won the Democratic
nomination to run for president of the United States. He beat Senator Lyndon
Johnson.
July 13, 1969 - Former Alabama Governor George Wallace
criticized President Richard Nixon for his handling of the Vietnam War and said
he favored an all-out military victory if the Paris talks failed to produce
peace soon. Wallace had run unsuccessfully against Nixon as a third party
candidate in the 1968 presidential election.
July 13, 1972 - Carroll Rosenbloom, owner of the Baltimore
Colts, and Robert Irsay, owner of the Los Angeles Rams, traded teams.
July 13, 1973 – Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence
of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating
the Watergate break in.
July 13, 1977 - Lightning struck three times on this night,
hitting Con Edison substations and shutting down the power grid and causing a
massive, 25-hour blackout in New York City. The city went dark at about 9:30
p.m. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports had to be shut down for eight hours,
tunnels in and out of the city were closed, and thousands of people had to be
evacuated from the subways.
July 13, 1979 – Castleberry, Ala. Mayor Forrest Moore
Castleberry passed away at the age of 76 in a Monroeville hospital. A native of
Castleberry and the town’s mayor continuously since 1963, he attended the
University of Alabama and worked as a journalist from 1923 to 1963, working at
newspapers in Alabama and Florida. During his career, he worked for The
Evergreen Courant, The Birmingham News, The Montgomery Advertiser-Journal, The
Mobile Press Register and as the Montgomery bureau chief for United Press
International. He also, at one time, represented Conecuh County in the state
legislature.
July 13, 1979 – Circuit Judge Robert E.L. Key administered
the oaths of office to Conecuh County Tax Collector J. Marvin Johnston and Tax
Assessor Delma E. Bowers. Johnston was entering his third term in office,
having first been elected in 1966, re-elected in 1972 and in 1978. Bowers was
entering his fourth term in office, having first been elected in 1960 and
re-elected in 1966, 1972 and 1978.
July 13, 1980 – Local weather reporter Earl Windham reported
a high temperature of 102 degrees in Evergreen, Ala.
July 13, 1982 – Barbara Ann Allen Rainey, the first female
pilot in the history of the U.S. Armed Forces, was killed in a plane crash at
Middleton Field in Evergreen. Allen, who was a flight instructor, along with
her trainee Ensign Donald Bruce Knowlton were practicing touch-and-go landings
at Middleton Field, when the aircraft banked sharply, lost altitude, and
crashed. Allen, who was 33 years old, and Knowlton were both killed in the
crash.
July 13, 1982 – Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game was
played outside the United States for the first time when it was played in
Montreal, Canada.
July 13, 1984 - Sportscaster Howard Cosell asked to be
released from his duties on "Monday Night Football." He said that he
was "tired of being tied to the football mentality."
July 13, 1985 – Vice President George Bush became the Acting
President for the day when President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove
polyps from his colon.
July 13, 1995 - Geddy Lee of Rush sang "Oh Canada"
before the All-Star Game at Baltimore's Camden Yards.
July 13, 1998 - "Image of an Assassination" went
on sale. The video documentary is of Abraham Zapruder's home video of U.S.
President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.
July 13, 2004 - Author Catherine Rodgers died in Auburn,
Ala.
July 13, 2009 - President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Regina
M. Benjamin to be Surgeon General of the United States. A graduate of Morehouse
College and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Benjamin specialized in
Family Medicine at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. Founder and CEO of
the BayouClinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, Benjamin since 1990 has been
providing health care to the low income community.
July 13, 2010 - George Steinbrenner, the larger-than-life,
longtime owner of the New York Yankees, who re-established the team as one of
baseball’s most successful franchises, died of a heart attack at age 80 in
Tampa, Florida. Under Steinbrenner, who owned the team from 1973 until his
death, the Yankees won seven World Series championships and 11 American League
pennants. Nicknamed “the Boss,” the influential, demanding and controversial
owner also built the Yankees into baseball’s first billion-dollar team.
No comments:
Post a Comment