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Nov. 12, 1729 – French explorer Louis Antoine de
Bougainville was born in Paris, France. A contemporary of the British explorer
James Cook, he took part in the Seven Years' War in North America and the
American Revolutionary War against Britain. Bougainville later gained fame for
his expeditions, including circumnavigation of the globe in a scientific
expedition, the first recorded settlement on the Falkland Islands, and voyages
into the Pacific Ocean.
Nov. 12, 1775 - Upon hearing of England’s rejection of the
so-called Olive Branch Petition on this day, Abigail Adams wrote to her
husband, John Adams, “Let us separate, they are unworthy to be our Brethren.
Let us renounce them and instead of supplications as formerly for their
prosperity and happiness, Let us beseech the almighty to blast their councils
and bring to Nought all their devices.”
Nov. 12, 1813 - Sam Dale, Jeremiah Austill, and James Smith
became frontier heroes in a Creek War episode on the Alabama River known as “The
Canoe Fight.” From their canoe, paddled by a black man named Caesar, the three
Americans engaged a large canoe carrying nine Creek warriors. As militiamen and
Indians watched from opposite sides of the river, Dale, Austill, and Smith
killed the nine warriors in hand-to-hand combat. (Other sources say this event
occurred on Jan. 12, 1813.)
Nov. 12, 1815 – Feminist Elizabeth
Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York.
Nov. 12-13, 1833 – In a spectacle
seen across the Southeast, a fantastic meteor shower caused this night to be
known as “the night stars fell on Alabama.” The shower created such great
excitement across the state that it became a part of Alabama folklore and for
years was used to date events. A century later it inspired a song and
book, and in 2002 the state put the phrase "Stars Fell on Alabama" on
its license plates.
Nov. 12, 1861 – During the Civil
War, Federal reconnaissance to Pohick Church and Occoquan Creek, Va. began.
Nov. 12, 1861 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought on Laurel Creek, Cotton Hill, West Virginia.
Nov. 12, 1862 – During the Civil War, the Federal courier station on Stone’s River, Tenn. was captured, and a skirmish was fought near Suffolk, Va.
Nov. 12, 1863 – During the Civil War, skirmishes were fought at Roseville, Ark.; at Greenleaf Prairie in the Indian Territory; at Corinth, Miss.; and near Cumberland Gap, Tenn. Federal operations also began about Saint Martinsville in the Bayou Tech country of Louisiana.
Nov. 12, 1864 - Union General
William T. Sherman ordered the business district of Atlanta destroyed before he
embarked on his famous March to the Sea. He had captured Atlanta in early
September 1864, and he ordered a systematic destruction ofthe city to prevent
Confederates from recovering anything once the Yankees abandoned it. By one
estimate, nearly 40 percent of the city was ruined.
Nov. 12, 1864 – During the Civil War, skirmishes were fought near Centreville, Mo.; near Cedar Creek, Newtown (or Middletown,) and Nineveh, Va.; and with Indians at Ash Creek near Fort Larned, Kansas.
Nov. 12, 1889 – DeWitt Wallace, the
founder of “Reader’s Digest,” was born in St. Paul, Minn.
Nov. 12, 1892 - William
"Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first professional football player on
record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic
Association.
Nov. 12, 1895 - Five days after a huge fire on Nov. 7, fire
destroyed every business and house on the west side of the railroad tracks in
Evergreen, Ala.
Nov. 12, 1895 – “Quite a sensation”
occurred when Top Moseley and Judge Stallworth got into an altercation in
Monroeville, Ala. Moseley was said to have been interfering with an employee of
Stallworth’s, and Stallworthh ordered him off his property. Moseley and
Stallworth exchanged words, and Stallworth hit Moseley with his cane. Moseley
seized the cane and hit Stallworth twice in the face before fleeing the scene.
A “crowd of boys” pursued Moseley and several shots were fired, but the chase
was abandoned after Moseley “took to the woods.”
Nov. 12, 1912 – Dr. Woodrow Wilson
Eddins born in Peterman, Ala. He went on to deliver over 9,000 babies, more
than the entire population of Monroeville today.
Nov. 12, 1912 – The frozen bodies
of Robert Scott and his men were found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Nov. 12, 1914 – After an illness of
about two weeks, former Conecuh County Sheriff Wiley W. Pridgen, 49, passed
away in Evergreen, Ala. Pridgen, who was born on July 21, 1865, moved to
Evergreen from Brewton in 1896 and was a partner in the stock and livery business
with Walter Lee. A native of Texas, who came to Alabama 25 years before his
death, Pridgen was later elected Conecuh County Sheriff, and he was an active
member of the local Knights of Pythias lodge. His remains were shipped by train to Thomaston, Texas
for burial, with his stepfather A.W. Eatman and Walter Lee serving as escorts.
He was buried in Thomaston Community Cemetery in Thomaston in DeWitt County,
Texas.
Nov. 12, 1914 – Mrs. W.C. Brantley
passed away at her home near Repton, Ala. and was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery
the next day.
Nov. 12, 1914 – The four-act
comedy, “Hazel Adams,” was performed at Monroe County High School in
Monroeville, Ala., starting at 8 p.m., a fundraiser for the school’s Domestic
Science Department.
Nov. 12, 1915 – “The Master Hand,”
starring Nat Godwin, was scheduled to be shown at the Arcade Theatre in
Evergreen, Ala.
Nov. 12, 1917 - A movie version of
Alabama author Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews' book “The Courage of the Commonplace” was released.
Nov. 12, 1920 - Judge Keneshaw
Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of the American and National
Baseball Leagues.
Nov. 12, 1921 – A fiddler’s
convention was held in Paul, Ala.
Nov. 12, 1923 – English
archaeologist and explorer Ian Graham was born in Campsea Ashe, a
village in the East Anglia county of Suffolk, England. His
explorations of Maya ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala and Belize
helped establish the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions published
by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Among his related works is a
biography of an early predecessor, the 19th-century British Maya explorer
Alfred Maudslay.
Nov. 12, 1929 – Children’s novelist
Michael Ende, best known for his 1979 book “The Neverending Story,” was born in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Nov. 12, 1932 – Ed Morrow, 30, was
found dead from a shotgun wound near Heath’s Mill on the Farnham Plantation
near Belleville, Ala. Deputy Sheriff W.A. Moore, Coroner L.B. Chapman and a
coroner’s jury composed of C.A. Hart, C.E. Mills, Howard Landon, H.J. Owens,
M.L. Sheffield and E. Lundy went to the scene, investigated and determined that
his death was the result of a “gunshot wound inflicted by a person and persons
unknown.” Moore went on to arrest Elisha Brown, Lewis King and Vester Daily in
connection with Morrow’s death.
Nov. 12, 1933 - In Philadelphia,
the first Sunday football game was played.
Nov. 12, 1933 – Hugh Gray took the
first known photos alleged to be of the Loch Ness Monster. Gray was walking
along the shore of Loch Ness when he saw an "object of considerable
dimensions, making a big splash with spray on the surface of the
Loch." He had his camera with him, and captured what some believe to
be the first photographic evidence of the Loch Ness Monster. Others have
dismissed the image as a distortion of a dog swimming through the water.
Nov. 12, 1944 – Sportscaster Al
Michaels was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Nov. 12, 1945 – Singer and musician
Neil Young was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Nov. 12, 1945 – Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist and short-story writer Tracy Kidder was born in New
York City.
Nov. 12, 1953 - The National
Football League policy of blacking out home games was upheld by Judge Allan K.
Grim of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
Nov. 12, 1954 – Ellis Island
formally closed its doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants to
the United States in its more than a half century of service.
Nov. 12, 1956 – Prof. George
Singer, famous hypnotist, conducted a two-hour show on hypnotism at the
Evergreen City School Auditorium in Evergreen, Ala. The show was sponsored by
the Evergreen Jaycees.
Nov. 12, 1958 – A team of rock
climbers led by Warren Harding completed the first ascent of The Nose on El
Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
Nov. 12, 1959 – The Monroe Journal
reported that the “strange disappearance” of the Fred Hayles family of Uriah,
Ala. remained unsolved after a month-long investigation covering several states
had failed to produce any evidence as to their whereabouts. The family had been
missing from their home since Oct. 10, and members of the missing family
included Hayles, who was a farmer, his wife, four children his father.
Nov. 12, 1964 – The Evergreen
Courant reported that the Evergreen Jaycees had named Evergreen High School’s
Alvin Dees as Player of the Week for his performance in the Nov. 6
Evergreen-T.R. Miller game. Dees, a senior tackle and linebacker, received the award
earlier in the season after Evergreen’s game against Greenville. Dees was named
to the Birmingham Post-Herald’s All State football team in 1963.
Nov. 12, 1964 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Cadet
2nd Lt. David Hyde Jr., the son of Mr. D.T. Hyde of Evergreen, Ala., had been
appointed Platoon Leader in Co. A by Col. John W. Paddock, Professor of
Military Science at the University of Alabama’s Army ROTC Cadet Brigade. In
addition to his activities in the Cadet Brigade, Cadet Hyde had been a member of
the ROTC Rifle Team from 1962-1964. Hyde was a graduate of Evergreen High
School in Evergreen, Ala.
Nov. 12, 1965 – Monroe County High School, under head coach
Ronnie Dees, beat Frisco City High School, 38-0, in Frisco City in the season
finale for both teams. The win also gave MCHS the county championship with wins
over all three of the other county teams and put the Tigers record at 8-1-1.
Standout MCHS players in that game included Frank McCreary, Randy McDonald,
Tommy McMillon, Mike Segers and Larry Wiggins. Standout Frisco players included
Pat Boothe, Donnie Griffey, Wayne Ikner, Mike Johns, Jim Kelly and Donnie
Wiggins.
Nov. 12, 1967 - The Detroit Lions
set a National Football League record when they fumbled the ball 11 times. They
only lost possession five of the 11 times.
Nov. 12, 1969 – During the Vietnam War, independent
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My Lai Massacre.
Nov. 12, 1969 - In Washington, D.C., the federal government began to assemble 9,000 troops to assist the police and National Guard with massive protests and demonstrations scheduled for November 14-15. The Defense Department announced that the troops were being made available at the request of the Justice Department and were to augment 1,200 National Guardsmen and a 3,700-man police force.
Nov. 12, 1970 - Alabama author
Michelle Richmond was born in Demopolis, Ala.
Nov. 12, 1971 – During the Vietnam War, as part of Vietnamization,
U.S. President Richard Nixon set Feb. 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal
of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
Nov. 12, 1972 - Don Shula, coach of
the Miami Dolphins, became the first NFL head coach to win 100 regular season
games in 10 seasons.
Nov. 12, 1976 – Vampire novelist
Richelle Mead was born in Michigan.
Nov. 12, 1986 – Katie Sue Burt, the
widow of the late Conecuh County Commission Chairman David L. Burt, who passed
away on Nov. 7, 1986, took the oath of office as Chairman of the Conecuh County
Commission shortly after 9 a.m. in the commission meeting room. The oath of
office was administered by Circuit Judge Robert E.L. Key in the presence of the
members of the commission, members of the Burt family and friends.
Nov. 12, 1993 – Episode No. 9 of
“The X-Files” – entitled “Space” – aired for the first time.
Nov. 12, 1994 – Heather Watson was
named Conecuh County’s Junior Miss during the county’s annual Junior Miss
program at Ed Reid State Technical College in Evergreen, Ala. Other contestants
that year included Rachel Bohannon, Kelly Booker, Amanda Chavers, Kristie Ivey,
Ruby Lett, Carmon Salter and Monica Williams.
Nov. 12, 1997 - The UN Security
Council imposed new sanctions on Iraq for constraints being placed on UN arms
inspectors.
Nov. 12, 2002 - Stan Lee filed a
lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment Inc. that claimed the company had cheated
him out of millions of dollars in movie profits related to the 2002 movie
"Spider-Man." Lee was the creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk
and Daredevil.
Nov. 12, 2003 – In Nasiriyah, Iraq,
at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003
invasion of Iraq, were killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police
base.
Nov. 12, 2008 – Pilgrims Rest
Cemetery in Escambia County, Ala. was added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery
Register.
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