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Aug. 29, 1498 – Vasco da Gama decided to depart Calicut and
return to Kingdom of Portugal.
Aug. 29, 1533 - Atahualpa, the last Incan King of Peru, was
murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro. The Inca Empire
died with him.
Aug. 29, 1632 – British philosopher John Locke was born in
Wrington, Somerset, England. His ideas were a foundation for much of the
Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
Aug. 29, 1758 – The first American Indian reservation was
established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
Aug. 29, 1776 - General George Washington held a meeting
with his generals. The Generals agreed that General Miffin's Pennsylvania
Regiments should make up the rear guard as the rest of the army withdrew from
Brooklyn.
Aug. 29, 1778 – During the American Revolutionary War,
British and American forces battled indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
Aug. 29, 1779 - In modern-day Elmira, New York, near the
state’s southwestern border with Pennsylvania, Continental forces led by Major
General John Sullivan and Brigadier General James Clinton defeated a force of
Loyalists and Indians commanded by Captain Walter Butler and Chief Joseph Brant
in what is now known as the Battle of Chemung or Newtown, N.Y.
Aug. 29, 1813 – Paddy Welsh and William Weatherford hid
their main force in the woods and tall grass about six miles from Fort Mims,
where soldiers and settlers were enjoying a supply of whiskey that had arrived
that day.
August 29, 1813 - Two black slaves tending cattle outside
Fort Mims also reported that "painted warriors" were in the vicinity,
but mounted scouts from the fort found no signs of the war party. To the
detriment of Fort Mims, Major Daniel Beasley had the second slave flogged for
"raising a false alarm."
Aug. 29, 1861 – During the Civil War, in North Carolina,
Confederate troops at Fort Hatteras surrendered after a two-day battle.
Aug. 29, 1861 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought at Morse's Mill, Mo.
Aug. 29, 1862 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee dealt a
stinging defeat to Union General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run,
Virginia—a battle that arose out of the failure of Union General George
McClellan’s Peninsular campaign earlier in the summer.
Aug. 29, 1863 – The H.L. Hunley submarine sank during
training exercise, killing five of her crew.
Aug. 29, 1863 – During the Civil War, a skirmish occurred at
Carperton's Ferry, Ala.
Aug. 29, 1864 - Democrats nominated George B. McClellan for
president to run against the Republican incumbent, Abraham Lincoln.
Aug. 29, 1885 - The first prizefight under the Marquis of
Queensberry Rules was held in Cincinnati, Ohio. John L. Sullivan defeated
Dominick McCaffery in six rounds.
Aug. 29, 1892 – “Pop” Billy Shriver of the Chicago Cubs
caught a ball that was dropped from the top of the Washington Monument in
Washington, D.C.
Aug. 29, 1895 – The Monroe Journal reported that “work on
the Monroeville Academy building goes bravely on. The outside walls have
already been put up and the materials for the interior work are on the ground
and being put in place as rapidly as possible. The dimensions of the building
are 36 x 60 feet, which will afford ample room for present necessities.”
Aug. 29, 1896 – The first issue of The Monroe Democrat
newspaper was published by D.M. Gordon and associates. That newspaper moved to
Daphne, Ala. about two years later.
Aug. 29, 1900 - William Carver, Kid Curry, Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid robbed a Union Pacific train of more than $30,000 near Tipton,
Wyoming.
Aug. 29, 1911 – State Superintendent of Education Henry J.
Willingham and State Auditor C. Brooks Smith visited Monroeville and Jones Mill
(now Frisco City) to announce that the state high school commission had awarded
Monroeville the County High School by a unanimous vote on Aug. 24.
Aug. 29, 1911 – The 19th Annual Session of the Second
District Agricultural School opened in Evergreen, Ala. with Henry T. Lile as
President.
Aug. 29, 1911 – The Evergreen Motor Car Co., which “featured
entirely and completely Ford automobiles and Ford products,” was established by
C.P. Deming Sr., H.W. Dunn, W.B. Ivey and R.B. Lee. It operated under that name
in the same block on Rural Street until Sept. 1, 1955 when it sold out to Bryon
Warren, who changed the name to Warren Ford Co.
Aug. 29, 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to
make contact with European Americans, emerged from the wilderness of
northeastern California.
Aug. 29, 1918 – Laula M. Middleton was born near Evergreen,
Ala. He would later become a military pilot and would be killed in World War
II. Evergreen’s airport was later named in his honor. A memorial marker for
Middleton came be found in Belleville United Methodist Church Cemetery.
Aug., 29, 1920 – Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker was born in
Kansas City, Kansas.
Aug. 29, 1922 – The first radio advertisement was broadcast
on WEAF-AM in New York City. The Queensboro Realty Company bought 10 minutes of
time for$100.
Aug. 29, 1940 – Evergreen’s Rotary Club defeated Brewton’s
Rotary Club, 19-9, in a softball game in Brewton, Ala.
Aug. 29, 1941 - “The Pittsburgh Kid,” a movie version of
Alabama author Octavus Roy Cohen's book “Kid
Tinsel,” was released.
Aug. 29, 1951 – The final issue of “The Frisco City Sun” was
published. The first issue was published on June 6, 1950.
Aug. 29, 1957 – Future NFL player Benjamin Rudolph born in
Evergreen.
Aug. 29, 1958 – The United States Air Force Academy opened
in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Aug. 29, 1971 - Hank Aaron became the first baseball player
in the National League to hit 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.
Aug. 29, 1971 - Alabama author Emma Gelders Sterne died in
San Jose, Calif.
Aug. 29, 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon was ordered by
Judge John Sirica to turn over the Watergate tapes. Nixon refused and appealed
the order.
Aug. 29, 1977 - Lou Brock brought his total of stolen bases
to 893. The record he beat had been held by Ty Cobb for 49 years.
Aug. 29, 1983 - The anchor of the USS Monitor from the U.S.
Civil War was retrieved by divers.
Aug. 29, 1985 – Sparta Academy opened the 1985 football
season with a 34-12 win over Greenville Academy at Stuart-McGehee Field in
Evergreen, Ala. Chad Grace and Danny Reed led Sparta’s offense with two
touchdowns each, and Mark Rigsby, who also scored a touchdown, led the defense
with eight solos, six assists, an interceptions and two caused fumbles.
Aug. 29, 1987 – Evergreen Mayor Pat Poole and Anthony Baker,
the president of Polyfelt, were scheduled to appear on television on Evelyn
Babcock’s weekend show, “Update,” on WAKA-TV in Selma, Ala. at 6:30 a.m.
Babcock invited Poole and Baker to be on the show to discuss how Polyfelt
selected Evergreen as the city to build its manufacturing plant.
Aug. 29, 1988 – Public schools in Conecuh County, Ala.
opened on this day to start the 1988-89 school year.
Aug. 29, 1989 – English explorer and painter Peter Scott
passed away at the age of 79 in Bristol, England.
Aug. 29, 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a
television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
Aug. 29, 2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the
Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, was assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with
nearly 100 worshipers as they left a mosque in Najaf.
Aug. 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 hurricane,
made landfall on the Louisiana coast, and became one of the greatest natural
disasters in U.S. history. Katrina left a wake of destruction stretching across
the northern Gulf coast from Louisiana to Florida, killing an estimated 1,836
people and causing over $108 billion in damage. Before it reached land, it was
the strongest hurricane ever measured in the Gulf of Mexico, with winds of up
to 175 miles per hour.
Aug. 29, 2008 – Hillcrest High School upset Class 6A Theodore, 21-20, at
Brooks Memorial Stadium in Evergreen, Ala. The game included Theodore junior
linebacker C.J. Mosley, who would go on to star at Alabama and to be selected
in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens.
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