Christopher 'Kit' Carson |
July 7, 1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeated larger Aztec
army at the Battle of Otumba.
July 7, 1534 – During the European colonization of the
Americas, the first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of
St. Lawrence in New Brunswick occurred.
July 7, 1777 – During the American Revolutionary War,
American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga were defeated by the British
in the Battle of Hubbardton, the only Revolutionary War battle to be fought in
Vermont.
July 7, 1817 – Walter H. Crenshaw was born at Abbeville
Court House, S.C., the eldest son of Judge Anderson Crenshaw, who moved with
his family to Butler County, Ala. in 1821. He served as a state representative,
Speaker of the State House, state senator, President of the State Senate,
officer in the state militia, and Butler County Criminal Court Judge.
July 7, 1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting
against abolitionists began.
July 7, 1846 – During the Mexican–American War, American
troops occupied Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition
of California. The U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey
after the surrender of a Mexican garrison there.
July 7, 1852 – According to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s
stories, Dr. John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick, was born on this day.
July 7, 1860 – Composer Gustav Mahler was born in Kaliště,
Bohemia. He wrote 10 symphonies and served as the conductor for both the Metropolitan
Opera and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
July 7, 1863 – The United States began its first military
draft. Exemptions cost $300.
July 7, 1863 – Union Lt. Colonel Christopher "Kit"
Carson, perhaps the most famous trapper and guide in the West, left Santa Fe
with his troops and started his campaign against the Indians of New Mexico and
Arizona.
July 7, 1865 – During the American Civil War, four
conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.
July 7, 1865 – Randolph County, Ala. native Lewis Powell,
convicted of repeatedly stabbing Secretary of State William H. Seward in a
failed attempt to kill him, was hanged alongside convicted Abraham Lincoln
assassination conspirators Mary Surratt, David Herold and George Atzerodt.
July 7, 1865 - Mary Surratt was executed by the U.S.
government for her role as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Many expected President Andrew Johnson to pardon Surratt because the U.S.
government had never hanged a woman. Ever since her death, numerous sightings
of Mary Surratt’s ghost and other strange occurrences have been reported around
Fort McNair. A hooded figure in black, bound at the hands and feet as Surratt
had been at the time of her execution, has allegedly been seen moving about.
Several children of soldiers have reported a “lady in black” who plays with
them.
July 7, 1887 – Artist Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk,
Russia.
July 7, 1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signed the
Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
July 7, 1900 – Warren Earp, the youngest of the famous clan
of gun fighting brothers, was shot and killed by John Boyett in a gunfight at
the Headquarters Salone in Willcox, Az. Later, Boyett was tried for murder and
found innocent on the grounds that he had acted in self-defense
July 7, 1906 – National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Leroy
Robert “Satchel” Paige was born in Mobile, Ala. He would go on to play for the
Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns and the Kansas City Athletics. He was
inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971.
July 7, 1907 – Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein was
born in Butler, Mo.
July 7, 1909 – An intruder entered the home of F.M. Rountree
in Conecuh County, Ala. and was shot, but the intruder got away.
July 7, 1912 – Jim Thorpe, a former two-time college
football All-American, won the pentathlon at the fifth modern Olympics in
Stockholm, Sweden.
July 7, 1915 – Author and poet Margaret Walker was born in
Birmingham, Ala. Her mother’s relatives lived in Greenville and she set a
portion of her 1966 novel, “Jubilee,” in Greenville. Walker is best known for
her collections of poetry and her novel, “Jubilee,”
which is based on her maternal grandmother's memories of slavery. Walker taught
for many years at Jackson State University in Mississippi and she
died in 1998.
July 7, 1915 – Mrs. J.G. Barrow suffered a broken collarbone
during an automobile accident on this Thursday evening on Cary Street in
Evergreen, Ala. She was in the car with her daughter, Mrs. Buford Powell, when
their vehicle’s brakes failed going up the street’s steep incline, went down
the embankment and overturned. No one else was injured, but the vehicle’s
windshield was “demolished.”
July 7, 1928 – The Evergreen Motor Car Co. was scheduled to
officially open in its new location inside “the pretty new building recently
completed on Rural Street.” All seven models of the New Ford Car were to be on
display on this day, several of which have not been shown in Evergreen, Ala.
before.
July 7, 1930 – Congress approved the funds to build the
Hoover Dam.
July 7, 1933 - Author John Logue was born in Bay Minette,
Ala.
July 7, 1933 – Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author
David McCullough was born in Pittsburgh, Pa.
July 7, 1937 - During the All-Star Game, Earl Averill hit a
line drive that broke one of Dizzy Dean's toes.
July 7, 1947 – The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of
an alien spaceship, occurred near Roswell in New Mexico.
July 7, 1948 - Photos of an alleged alien, nicknamed 'Tomato
Man,' were taken at a UFO crash site in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon.
July 7, 1948 – Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck bought
Satchel Paige’s contract on Paige’s 42nd birthday, and Paige made his MLB debut
two days later, entering in the fifth inning against the St. Louis Browns with
the Indians trailing, 4-1. Paige gave up two singles in two innings, striking
one man out and inducing one batter to hit into a double play. The Indians lost
the game, 5-3, in spite of Paige’s contribution.
July 7, 1953 - The Dodgers set a major league record when
they got a home run in their 24th consecutive game.
July 7, 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed
the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
July 7, 1964 - Shea Stadium hosted it's first and only
All-Star game.
July 7, 1970 – Marine Lance Cpl. David Marshall Haveard of
Brewton killed in action in Vietnam.
July 7, 1963 – Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin was
born in Clarke County, Ala. Raised in Dickinson, he won an Edgar for Best Short
Story in 1999 for “Poachers.” His novel, “Hell
at the Breech,” a fictionalized version of the Mitcham War of
Clarke County, Ala., was published in 2003.
July 7, 1980 – The Reeves Chapel Methodist Church and
Cemetery near Camden, Ala. was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and
Heritage.
July 7, 1987 - Alabama author Sara Henderson Hay died in
Pittsburgh, Pa.
July 7, 1988 – The Evergreen Courant reported that new
Evergreen High School head football coach Hugh Fountain was asking all boys
interested in playing junior varsity and varsity football to meet with him
every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the field house.
July 7, 1988 – The Evergreen Courant reported that former
Executive Vice President Bill Johnson had been appointed President of Poole
Truck Line, Inc. The appointment was announced by John Bowron, President of
NEOAX’s I.U. International Truckload Group, Poole’s parent company.
July 7, 1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdrew from
northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi
Kurdish Civil War.
July 2, 2000 - Amazon.com announced that they had sold
almost 400,000 copies of "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire,"
making it the biggest selling book in e-tailing history.
July 7, 2005 – New Hope Baptist Church in Natchez, Ala. was
added to National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the
Interior.
July 7, 2011 – National Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder,
third baseman and manager Dick Williams passed away at the age of 82 in Las
Vegas, Nev. During his career, he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the
Baltimore Orioles, the Cleveland Indians, the Kansas City Athletics and the
Boston Red Sox, and he went on to manage 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.
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