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Oct. 30, 1735 - John Adams, the second President of the
United States, was born in Braintree, Mass. His son, John Quincy Adams, became
the sixth President of the U.S.
Oct. 30, 1775 - The Continental Congress appointed seven
members to serve on an administrative naval committee tasked with the
acquisition, outfitting and manning of a naval fleet to be used in defense
against the British. Almost two weeks earlier, on October 13, 1775, Congress
had authorized the construction and arming of vessels for the country’s first
navy. Members of the first naval committee included some of the most
influential members of the Continental Congress and several “founding fathers,”
including John Adams, Joseph Hewes, John Langdon, Richard Henry Lee, Silas
Deane and Stephen Hopkins, the committee’s chairman.
Oct. 30, 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped
slave Nat Turner was captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave
rebellion in United States history.
Oct. 30, 1861 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought
near Morgantown, Ky.
Oct. 30, 1861 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought
near Greenbriar, West Virginia.
Oct. 30, 1862 - Union General Ormsby MacKnight Mitchell,
commander of the Department of the South, died from yellow fever at Beaufort,
S.C. In 1862, Mitchell directed raids into northern Alabama and captured
Huntsville, Ala. in April 1862.
Oct. 30, 1864 - Union forces recaptured Plymouth, N.C.
Oct. 30, 1864 – During the Civil War, a second day of
skirmishing occurred in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals (or Raccoon Ford), near
Florence, Ala.
Oct. 30, 1869 – Monroe County Probate Judge Murdock McCorvey
Fountain was born at Tunnel Springs, Ala. He graduated from Perdue Hill High
School in 1889 and was appointed Monroe County Sheriff in 1902 when Sheriff
John S. Howington was killed while in office. He was elected Monroe County
Probate Judge in 1916.
Oct. 30, 1885 – Poet and critic Ezra Pound was born in
Hailey, Idaho.
Oct. 30, 1898 – National Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman
Bill Terry was born in Atlanta, Ga. He played his entire career for the New
York Giants and managed the Giants from 1932 to 1941. He was inducted into the
Hall of Fame in 1954.
Oct. 30, 1912 - Alabama author Willis Brewer died in
Montgomery, Ala.
Oct. 30, 1914 – Julian Andrews shot and killed Wright Eddins
near Bone Hill church in northeastern Monroe County, Ala. Andrews was arrested,
brought to Monroeville and placed in jail.
Oct. 30, 1915 – Pioneering broadcast journalist Fred W.
Friendly was born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer in New York City.
Oct. 30, 1916 – National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Leon
Day was born in Alexandria, Va. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1995.
Oct. 30, 1917 – Major League Baseball shortstop and catcher
Bobby Bragan was born in Birmingham, Ala. He went on to play for the
Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers, and he also managed the Pittsburgh
Pirates, Cleveland Indians and the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves.
Oct. 30, 1919 - The professional baseball association ruled
that spitballs and shineballs were illegal.
Oct. 30, 1930 – The Evergreen Courant published a special
“Conecuh County Agricultural, Industrial and Historical Edition.” The front
page of the 50-page edition was printed in green ink, it was the largest
newspaper ever published in Conecuh County, Ala.
Oct. 30, 1936 – The first ever night football game in the
history of Frisco City High School was played on this day. Frisco City faced
Monroe County High School and lost, 13-12. It was FC’s only documented loss of
the entire season.
Oct. 30, 1936 – In a game played at 2:30 p.m. during the
Conecuh County Fair, Evergreen High School beat Repton High School, 47-0, at
Gantt Field in Evergreen, Ala.
Oct. 30, 1936 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and
biographer Robert Caro was born in New York City.
Oct. 30, 1938 - Martians invaded New Jersey! Well, at least
that's what many radio listeners thought, when they tuned into Orson Welles'
broadcast of “War of the Worlds” on CBS radio. As part of the realistic radio
play, an announcer interrupted a dance orchestra to describe a crash in a
farmer's field, and then later he warned of tentacled creatures inside giant
attack machines. The public went into a panic--it's estimated that as many as
one million people believed a real invasion was underway.
Oct. 30, 1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier
and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from the HMS Petard boarded U-559,
retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma
code.
Oct. 30, 1944 – Anne and Margot Frank were deported from
Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease
the following year, shortly before the end of World War II.
Oct. 30, 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs
signed a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
Oct. 30, 1948 - Alabama author Dennis Covington was born in
Birmingham, Ala.
Oct. 30, 1952 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
Evergreen City Council had approved a zoning plan and ordinance as presented to
them by the City Planning Commission.
Oct. 30, 1952 – The Evergreen Courant reported that all the
remaining right-of-way deeds for the paving of the portion of U.S. Highway 84
through Herbert and Cohassett to Andalusia by the Conecuh County (Ala.) Board
of Directors had been signed. Up to that point, county officials had been
working to have that portion of the highway paved for a number of years.
Oct. 30, 1952 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
State of Alabama, as part of a federal aid project, had completed the
construction of the new bridge over Murder Creek between Evergreen and Fairview
in Conecuh County, Ala. As of this date, the approaches to the bridge were
being completed and was expected to be finished at an early date.
Oct. 30, 1954 – In an incident attributed to the Bermuda Triangle,
a U.S. Navy Super Constellation disappeared with 42 passengers and crew while
flying in fair weather from Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. to the
Azores.
Oct. 30, 1964 – The Monroe County Board of Education
appointed Monroe County High School head coach James Allen as principal of MCHS
and promoted assistant coach Ronald M. Dees to head coach. The changes were
made due to the resignation of MCHS principal B.E. Lee, who had been named as
the president of the forthcoming junior college in Monroeville. The changes
were to take effect on Feb. 1, 1965.
Oct. 30, 1970 - Jim Morrison was sentenced to six months in
jail and fined $500 for exposing himself in Miami, Fla.
Oct. 30, 1974 – Excel High School began a streak of 20
straight games without a loss (including ties) that ended on Nov. 6, 1975.
Oct. 30, 1974 – As a member of the California Angels, Major
League Baseball player Nolan Ryan threw the fastest recorded pitch, at 100.9
MPH.
Oct. 30, 1979 - In a run-off, Richard Arrington was elected
as the first black mayor of Birmingham, Alabama’s largest city. Arrington
served in that post for nearly 20 years, until his resignation in July 1999.
Oct. 30, 1988 - Kurt Cobain smashed his very first guitar.
Oct. 30, 1988 - The New York Jets beat the Pittsburgh
Steelers for the first time.
Oct. 30, 2001 - In New York City, U.S. President George W.
Bush threw out the first pitch at Game 3 of the World Series between the New
York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Oct. 30, 2001 - The U.S. Postal Service temporarily
suspended the sale of envelopes pre-printed with postage due to developments in
the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Oct. 30, 2005 – National Baseball Hall of Fame catcher and
manager Al Lopez passed away at the age of 97 in Tampa, Fla. During his career,
he played for the Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers, the Boston Bees, the Pittsburgh
Pirates and the Cleveland Indians, and he managed the Indians and the Chicago
White Sox. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1977.
Oct. 30, 2006 - A television version of Alabama author Anne
Rivers Siddons's book “The House Next Door”
was broadcast.
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