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Jan. 1, 404 AD - The last gladiator battle was fought in
Rome.
Jan. 1, 1735 – American Revolutionary War Patriot Paul
Revere was born in Boston, Mass.
Jan 1, 1739 – Bouvet Island was discovered by French
explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
Jan. 1, 1764 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a prominent
Freemason, played for the Royal Family at Versailles in France.
Jan. 1, 1773 – The hymn “Amazing Grace,” written by John
Newton, was first presented at a prayer meeting in Olney, Buckinghamshire,
England.
Jan. 1, 1776 – During the American Revolutionary War,
Norfolk, Va. was burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
Jan. 1, 1781 – During the American Revolutionary War, 1,500
soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command
rebelled against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey
in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
Jan. 1, 1788 – The first edition of London’s oldest daily
newspaper, The Times of London, previously named The Daily Universal Register,
was published.
Jan. 1, 1800 – John Hill Dailey was born in Ohio. He came to
Alabama as a young man and first settled at Belleville. A few years later, he
moved to Tunnel Springs, where he became an extensive planter and owner of many
slaves. He passed away at the age of 91.
Jan. 1, 1803 – Emperor Gia Long ordered all bronze wares of
the Tây Sơn dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal
Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
Jan. 1, 1808 - The U.S. banned the importation of slaves
from Africa.
Jan. 1, 1825 – During his tour of the United States, the
Marquis de Lafayette attended a banquet hosted by the U.S. Congress.
Jan. 1, 1836 – David People was given a license to sell whiskey
and keep a tavern in Monroe County, Ala. for one year.
Jan. 1, 1846 – English soldier and explorer John Torrington,
at around the age of 21, died during an expedition to find the Northwest
Passage and was buried on Beechey Island.
Jan. 1, 1853 – Australian farmer and explorer Gregory
Blaxland died at the age of 74 in New South Wales. He is
noted especially for initiating and co-leading the first successful
crossing of the Blue Mountains by European settlers.
Jan 1, 1862 – During the Civil War,
the Federal shelling of Fort McRee and Fort Barranacas in Pensacola, Fla.
began.
Jan. 1, 1862 – During the Civil
War, the first of three days of Federal operations between Dayton and Rose
Hill, Mo. began.
Jan. 1, 1862 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought at Port Royal, S.C.
Jan. 1, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Helena, Ark.; at Bath Springs, Miss.; and in the
vicinity of Clifton, Stewart’s Creek, and La Vergne, Tenn.
Jan. 1, 1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the final
Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebel states
and Confederate territory were free. A preliminary proclamation was issued in
September 1862, following the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in
Maryland. The act signaled an important shift in the Union’s Civil War aims,
expanding the goal of the war from reunification to include the eradication of
slavery.
Jan. 1, 1863 - Confederate troops under General John
Bankhead Magruder captured Galveston, Texas.
Jan. 1, 1864 – During the Civil
War, 30 days of sustained Federal operations in Northeastern Arkansas began.
Skirmishes were also fought at Lunenburg and Sylamore in Arkansas; at
Dandridge, Tenn.; in Charleston Harbor, S.C. and vicinity; and at Bunker Hill,
West Va.
Jan. 1, 1864 – During the Civil
War, Federal operations against Indians, mostly Hoopas, began in the Humboldt
Military District of California.
Jan. 1, 1864 – During the Civil
War, a four-day Confederate operation began in Middle Tennessee.
Jan 1, 1864 – During the Civil War,
a four-day Federal expedition began between Beatlton to Front Royal, Va. A
skirmish was also fought at Rectortown, Va.
Jan. 1, 1865 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought at Bentonville, Ark. and with Snake Indians on the
Canyon City Road in Oregon.
Jan. 1, 1865 – During the Civil
War, the Federal Campaign of the Carolinas began.
Jan. 1, 1879 – Novelist E.M. Forster was born Edward Morgan
Forster in London.
Jan. 1, 1889 - Friedrich Nietzsche was said to have suffered
a nervous breakdown after seeing a horse whipped by a cab driver.
Jan. 1, 1892 – The Ellis Island Immigrant Station formally
opened in New York.
Jan. 1, 1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the
FBI, was born in Washington, D.C.
Jan. 1, 1896 – Abner Dees died at the age of 75, according
to The Monroe Journal. He was born on Oct. 15, 1820.
Jan. 1, 1898 – The City of Pensacola, Fla. established a
full-time, paid fire department.
Jan. 1, 1900 – The Louisville & Nashville rail line
between Pine Apple and Repton, Ala. was completed.
Jan. 1, 1900 - Alabama ushered in 1900 with cold temperatures
and little fanfare. Snow was recorded in Birmingham and Montgomery at the start
of the holiday weekend and freezing temperatures continued to Mon., Jan. 1.
Most citizens did not celebrate the start of the 20th century until 1901 and
The Birmingham Age-Herald remarked “the first day of the last year of the
nineteenth century dawned dull enough in Birmingham.”
Jan. 1, 1901 - Alabama newspapers welcomed a new year and a
new century. Declaring Jan. 1, 1901, as the first day of the 20th Century (and
not January 1, 1900), the Montgomery Journal predicted that
“Montgomery can well afford to welcome the year and the century with
enthusiasm.” Likewise, the Birmingham Age-Herald carried a prominent front-page
cartoon with a depiction of Father Time greeting the twin babies of the new
year and the new century.
Jan. 1, 1902 - The first Tournament of Roses (later the Rose
Bowl) collegiate football game was played in Pasadena, Calif. This was the
first college football bowl game, and Michigan beat Stanford, 49-0.
Jan. 1, 1906 – Medal of Honor recipient Richmond Pearson
Hobson of Greensboro, the “Hero of the Merrimac,” was scheduled to deliver a
lecture at the Conecuh County Courthouse in Evergreen, Ala.
Jan. 1, 1908 – For the first time, a ball was dropped in New
York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
Jan. 1, 1911 – National Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman
Hank Greenberg was born in New York. He would go on to play for the Detroit
Tigers and the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in
1956.
Jan. 1, 1912 – The annual meeting of Camp Capt. William Lee,
No. 338, of the United Confederate Veterans was held and G.R. Boulware was
re-elected camp commander. Other officers elected included M.B. Salter, sergeant
major; Rev. J.D. Wright, chaplain; Dr. W.B. Shaver, surgeon. Delegates to the
next encampment were W.F. Tomlinson, J.T. Fincher and J.W. Cook.
Jan. 1, 1913 – The parcel post system was put into operation
at every post office in the U.S. Under this system, parcels weighing up to 11
pounds were transported by mail.
Jan. 1, 1915 – A meeting of Camp William Lee, No. 338, was
scheduled to be held. It was said to be the 24th Annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans of Camp Wm. Lee, No. 338.
Jan. 1, 1915 – Alabama Gov. Emmit O’Neal appointed Ben. D.
Turner, about 28 years old, of Washington County as the judge of the first
judicial circuit to succeed Judge John T. Lackland of Grove Hill, who died on
Dec. 25, 1914. Other candidates for the position included W.F. Herbert of
Demopolis and J.B. Barnett of Monroeville.
Jan. 1, 1915 - Alabama author John Henrik Clarke was born in
Union Springs, Ala.
Jan. 1, 1915 – During World War I, in the early-morning hours of New Year’s Day, 1915, the 15,000-ton British HMS class battleship Formidable was torpedoed by the German submarine U-24 and sank in the English Channel, killing 547 men.
Jan. 1, 1916 – The 26th Annual Reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans Camp, Capt. Wm. Lee, No. 338, was scheduled to be held at
the Conecuh County Courthouse in Evergreen, Ala. During the reunion, members
were to elect officers for the ensuing year and the collection of dues. All
veterans who were physically able were required to attend and participate in
the meeting.
Jan. 1, 1919 - J.D. Salinger, the author of “The Catcher in
the Rye,” was born Jerome David Salinger in New York City.
Jan. 1, 1925 – H.P. Lovecraft’s wife of just 10 months,
Sonia Haft Greene, went to Cleveland, Ohio to take a job there, and Lovecraft
moved into a single apartment near the seedy Brooklyn area called Red Hook. The
couple divorced in 1929.
Jan. 1, 1925 – Monroe Journal editor Q. Salter editorialized
that with this day’s issue of the newspaper, The Journal “enters upon its 59th
year of publication, 37 of which have been under the present management.
Assuming the duties and responsibilities of the position as a beardless youth
with little experience, the publisher has endeavored to steer a consistent
course, adhering steadfastly to those ideals which he believed to be for moral
and social welfare and for the material development of town and county. He has
doubtless made many mistakes and fallen into many errors of judgement during
these years, but an indulgent public has generously overlooked them and
accorded consistent patronage far beyond his merit, for which he is grateful.”
Jan. 1, 1925 – The Monroe Journal reported that Mr. Noble J.
Sproule of Stenen, Saskatchewan was visiting his sister, Dr. Ida A. Fraser.
Mrs. Sproule and children had been in Monroeville for several weeks, and when
Mr. Sproule left his home the temperature was 30 below zero.
Jan. 1, 1926 – Coach Wallace Wade’s University of Alabama
football team, the first southern team to be honored with an invitation to the
Rose Bowl, beat the University of Washington, 20-19, in Pasadena, Calif. This
was the first of six Rose Bowl appearances for Alabama and the first time a
southern football team was invited to play in a national bowl game. That year’s
Rose Bowl was also carried from coast to coast on network radio for the first
time.
Jan. 1, 1927 – Pro Football Hall of Fame halfback, kicker
and punter Doak Walker was born in Dallas, Texas. He went on to play for SMU
and the Detroit Lions. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in
1986.
Jan. 1, 1932 – The United States Post Office Department
issued a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George
Washington's birth.
Jan. 1, 1933 - Miami defeated Manhattan, 7-0, in the first
ever Orange Bowl, which was then called the Festival of Palms Bowl.
Jan. 1-2, 1934 – The Purcell Stage Circus, featuring
monkeys, dogs, pony and clowns, which had played at the Grand Theatre in
Montgomery, was scheduled to play at the Evergreen Theatre on this Monday and
Tuesday in Evergreen, Ala.
Jan. 1, 1934
– Nazi Germany passed the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased
Offspring."
Jan. 1, 1935 – Tulane beat Temple, 20-14, in the first ever
Sugar Bowl. The game was played at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans.
Jan. 1, 1935 - The El Paso All-Stars beat the Rangers
(Texas), 25-21, in the first ever Sun Bowl, which was played in the El Paso
High School stadium.
Jan. 1, 1935 – Cartoonist B. Kliban was born in Connecticut.
Jan. 1, 1936 – In Lovecraftian fiction, despite the high
quality of care given to the patients at Oakdeene Sanitarium, the Sanitarium is
best remembered for the scandal caused by the death of some inmates on this
night. This facility first appeared in 1977’s “The Horror at Oakdeene” by Brian
Lumley.
Jan. 1, 1936 - The "New York Herald Tribune" began
microfilming its current issues on this date.
Jan. 1, 1937 – TCU beat Marquette, 16-6, in the first ever
Cotton Bowl in Dallas Texas.
Jan. 1, 1939 – The new Commercial Hotel, which had been
under construction since mid-summer, was scheduled to open in Monroeville, Ala.
The 30-room hotel was owned by Mrs. W.B. Strong.
Jan. 1, 1939 - Alabama author James Seay was born in Panola
County, Miss.
Jan. 1, 1952 - As of this date, there were four Confederate
Pensioners living in Monroe County, all widows of former Confederate soldiers.
They were Mrs. Susan C. Easley of Beatrice, Mrs. B.A. Porter of Frisco City,
Mrs. B. Sawyer of Frisco City and Mrs. Sadie O. Sellers of Peterman. Their
names were published in the Jan. 17, 1952 edition of The Monroe Journal.
Jan. 1, 1953 - Legendary singer-songwriter Hank Williams
died at the age of twenty-nine near Oak Hill, West Virginia. Over 20,000 people
attended his funeral in Montgomery, Ala. Williams was inducted into the Country
Music Hall of Fame in 1961 and received the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Lifetime
Achievement award for Performing Achievement in 1985.
Jan. 1, 1953 – Alabama, under head coach Harold Drew, beat
Syracuse, 61-6, in the 1953 Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla. Offensive left guard
Jeff Moorer of Evergreen, Ala. played all of the last quarter on offense and he
is believed to be the first Evergreen athlete to play in a college football
bowl game. Other players on Alabama’s team included Bart Starr, Tommy Lewis of
Greenville and Hootie Ingram. Lewis scored two touchdowns in the game.
Jan. 1, 1954 - The Rose Bowl and the Cotton Bowl were shown
in color for the first time.
Jan. 1, 1954 – Rice beat Alabama, 28-6, in the 1954 Cotton
Bowl Classic at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. Rice won the game, but its
victory was overshadowed by Greenville, Ala. native Tommy Lewis and his
"12th man tackle" of Rice running back Dicky Moegle in the second
quarter.
Jan. 1, 1959 - Fidel Castro’s forces overthrew the
government of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba during
the Cuban Revolution.
Jan. 1, 1960 – The first traffic fatality in Alabama of 1960
occurred early on this Friday morning on State Highway 41 near Range when
Ulysses Glenn, a 27-year-old convict was fatally wounded when he was thrown
from a truck hauling prisoners to work.
Jan. 1, 1961 - Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Mich. was renamed
Tigers Stadium.
Jan. 1, 1963 – Lee Roy Jordan of Excel was named the MVP of
the Orange Bowl, a game in which Bear Bryant’s 9-1 Alabama Crimson Tide beat
8-2 Oklahoma, 17-0, in Miami, Fla. With President John F. Kennedy and First
Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in attendance, Jordan recorded an Alabama bowl record
of 31 tackles in the victory. The game was broadcast nationally on ABC.
Jan. 1, 1966 – During the Vietnam War, advance elements of
the 1st Regiment of the Marine 1st Division arrived in Vietnam, and the entire
division followed by the end of March, establishing its headquarters at Chu Lai.
Jan. 1, 1967 - Sonny & Cher were banned from the
Tournament of Roses for supporting Sunset Strip rioters.
Jan 1, 1967 – During the Vietnam War, Operation Sam Houston
began as a continuation of border surveillance operations in Pleiku and Kontum
Provinces in the Central Highlands by units from the U.S. 4th and 25th Infantry
Divisions.
Jan. 1, 1967 – Pro Football Hall of Fame outside linebacker
and defensive end Derrick Thomas was born in Miami, Fla. He went on to play at
the University of Alabama and the Kansas City Chiefs. He was inducted into the
Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.
Jan. 1-2, 1975 – The “Call of the Wild,” based on Jack
London’s famous story and starring Charlton Heston, was to be shown at the Pix
Theatre in Evergreen, Ala. on this Wednesday and Thursday. W.B. Epperson was
the theatre’s manager.
Jan. 1, 1976 – In connection with the “Amityville Horror”
incident, cloven hoofprints attributed to an enormous pig appeared in the snow
outside the house. The claim of cloven hoofprints in the snow on Jan. 1, 1976
was later rejected by other researchers, because a check on the weather records
showed that there had been no snow in Amityville on the day in question.
Jan. 1, 1976 - A radio version of author Ambrose Bierce's
story "One of the Missing" was broadcast as part of the series The
CBS Radio Mystery Theatre.
Jan. 1, 1976 – The first baby born
in the Monroe County Hospital in 1976 was Albert Leon Rabon, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wilber Rabon of Castleberry. Born Jan. 1 at 3:42 a.m., Albert weighed nine
pounds, two ounces and was 21 inches long.
Jan. 1, 1978 – On this night, the Conecuh County (Ala.)
Rescue Squad located and rescued lost hunter Dennis Monk, who was reported
missing by his hunting companion about 6:15 p.m. in the Murder Creek Swamp
area. Monk was found around 10:30 p.m. and was brought out of the swamp around
1 a.m. on Jan. 2. Alabama State Troopers, Conecuh County Sheriff’s Deputies and
Evergreen police assisted in the search.
Jan. 1, 1978 – The Dickinson House, located on Dickinson
Avenue in Grove Hill, was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and
Heritage.
Jan. 1, 1992 - The ESPN Radio Network was officially
launched.
Jan. 1, 1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) went into effect.
Jan. 1, 2001 - The second phase of Alabama’s mandatory
liability insurance requirements began as the Alabama Department of Revenue
started mailing insurance verification survey forms to vehicle owners.
Jan. 1, 2002 - A movie version of Alabama author Walker
Percy's book “The Moviegoer” was released.
Jan. 1, 2006 – Monroeville, Ala.
was featured in National Geographic magazine in a story titled “To Catch a
Mockingbird” by Cathy Newman with photos by Michael Nichols.
Jan. 1, 2007 - Darrent Williams of
the Denver Broncos was killed in a drive-by shooting outside a nightclub in
Denver, Colo.
Jan. 1, 2011 - The new Oak Island
Treasure Act came into effect and allowed for treasure hunting to continue on
the island under the terms of a license issued by the Minister of Natural
Resources.
Jan. 1, 2016 – A UFO was reported seen around 7:15 p.m. on
this Friday in Pinson, about 15 miles northeast of Birmingham, Ala. The witness
in this case, along with his wife, mother and daughter, reported seeing three,
unusual lights in the shape of an inverted triangle in the southern sky. The
witness said these lights were larger and brighter than the visible stars, and
the strange lights were orange or yellowish-orange in color. The witnesses
watched as the lights moved “very slowly” to the east and appeared to rotate
slightly. In all, the witnesses watched these strange lights for three to four
minutes before the lights disappeared behind clouds to the southwest.
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