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Feb. 28, 1510 – Spanish cartographer and explorer Juan de la
Cosa died in Turbaco, Columbia.
Feb. 28, 1525 – The Aztec king Cuauhtémoc was executed by
Hernán Cortés's forces.
Feb. 28, 1533 – Essayist Michel de Montaigne was born in
Perigord in Bordeaux, France.
Feb. 28, 1692 - In Salem, Massachusetts 10 children identify
the "witches" in their community who afflicted them: Sarah Good, Sarah
Osborne and an old Native American woman named Tituba. Warrants were obtained,
and they were arrested.
Feb. 28, 1766 - Revolutionary War soldier and Georgia
Governor John Clarke was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Clarke
County, Ala. was named in his honor on Dec. 10, 1812.
Feb. 28, 1784 - John Wesley chartered the first Methodist Church
in the United States.
Feb. 28, 1824 - Charles Blondin, the first person to walk
across Niagra Falls on a tightrope, was born in St Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Feb. 28, 1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the
first railroad incorporated for the commercial transportation of people and
freight.
Feb. 28, 1829 – Edgar Allan Poe’s foster mother, Frances
Allan, died.
Feb. 28, 1834 – Charles Pawson Atmore was born on the island
of Guernsey. Atmore, Ala. would later be named in his honor.
Feb. 28, 1836 - The Alamo endured prolonged cannonade fire
from Santa Anna’s artillery batteries.
Feb. 28, 1840 – French explorer Henri Duveyrier was born in
Paris, France.
Feb. 28, 1855 – Hinchey W. Warren passed away at the age of
67 near Sparta, Ala. and was buried in the Warren Family Cemetery. A War of
1812 veteran, he was also the great-grandfather of U.S. President Warren G.
Harding.
Feb. 28, 1858 – The ill-fated Eliza Battle left Demopolis,
Ala. fully loaded with passengers and with more than 1,200 bales of cotton.
During an already cold night, a strong north wind began to blow, with the air
temperature decreasing another 40°F in the two hours after nightfall. (13
Alabama Ghosts)
Feb. 28, 1861 - The U.S. territory of Colorado was
organized.
Feb. 28, 1862 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought near Fayetteville, Ark., at Osage Springs. Federal
operations at New Madrid, Mo. and Island Number 10 began. Charleston, Va. was
occupied by Federal forces.
Feb. 28, 1863 – During the Civil
War, the Federal naval attacked Fort McAllister, Ga., and a Naval encounter
occurred on the Ogeechee River, south of Savannah, Ga. A skirmish was also
fought out from Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory.
Feb. 28, 1864 – After getting captured by the Union at
Campbell’s Station, Noah Dallas Peacock (Lewis Lavon Peacock’s older brother)
was transferred from Asylum General Hospital in Nashville to Louisville
Military Prison.
Feb. 28, 1864 - A major Union cavalry raid began when
General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick led 3,500 troopers south from Stevensburg,
Virginia. Aimed at Richmond, the raid sought to free Federal prisoners and
spread word of President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and
Reconstruction in hopes of convincing Confederates to lay down their arms.
Kilpatrick took with him Colonel Ulrich Dahlgren to conduct the prisoner
release while Kilpatrick covered him with the main force
Feb. 28, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought along the Peal River and at Yazoo City, Miss.; at
Dukedom Tenn.; and at Ely’s Ford, Va. A Federal operation took place in
Gloucester County and Albermarle County, Va.
Feb. 28, 1865 – During the Civil
War, Nathan Bedford Forrest was finally appointed Lieutenant General, and a
skirmish was fought in the vicinity of Cheraw and Rocky Mount, S.C.
Feb. 28, 1872 - John Gassaway Rush passed away at the age of
54 and was buried in McIntosh Cemetery, which is located behind Andrews Chapel
in McIntosh, Ala. In 1860, he and his wife donated the land where the church
was constructed.
Feb. 28, 1887 - Alabama passed its first child labor law,
fixing age limits and restricting work hours for certain types of labor. The
legislation, which also protected women workers, was repealed in the 1890s, but
efforts of reformers like Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy of Montgomery resulted in
new child labor laws during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Feb. 28, 1894 – Novelist, playwright and screenwriter Ben
Hecht was born in New York City.
Feb., 28, 1895 – The Monroe Journal reported that “a little
colored girl was shot and killed by her brother near Perdue Hill last week. The
two children were playing with an old gun which went off with the above
result.”
Feb. 28, 1901 – The Town of Beatrice, Ala. was officially
incorporated as a municipality. While the Selma to Pensacola branch of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad was being built, the general superintendent
of construction, a Col. Seymour of Nashville, Tenn., asked that the town
growing up around the station in present-day Beatrice be named for his
granddaughter, Beatrice Seymour. The Beatrice post office was established in
1900. (Places Names in Alabama)
Feb. 28, 1901 – According to the Alabama League of
Municipalities, Opp was officially incorporated as a municipality.
Feb. 28, 1906 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
Evergreen Bottling Co. had opened a supply depot next door to McNutt’s barber
shop, and was prepared to supply dealers with bottled soda water, ginger ale,
etc. on short notice.
Feb. 28, 1906 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Frank
Simmons of Evergreen, Ala. had brought the newspaper a 9-1/2 pound “monster
turnip” that was bigger than the 7-3/4 pound turnip recently grown by J.J.
Pearce of Bowles.
Feb. 28, 1906 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the Daughters
of the Confederacy planned to make a donation to the Soldiers’ Home at Mountain
Creek and earnestly desired the cooperation of every Confederate veteran. All
contributions were to be left at the McCreary Drug Store. Mrs. M. McCreary was
President of the U.D.C. and Mrs. Edwin C. Page was Corresponding Secretary.
Feb. 28, 1915 - Asa Goodwin, the oldest man in Alabama, died
at Bessemer, Ala. on the eve of his 108th birthday. He was born in Henry
County, Ga. in 1807 and had lived since 1829 in Alabama and Mississippi. He was
survived by one son, 74 grandchildren, 227 great-grandchildren and 15
great-great-grandchildren.
Feb. 28, 1916 - Riley Kelly and W.R. Manning of Excel, Ala.
transacted business in Monroeville on this Monday.
Feb. 28, 1916 – Around noon on this Monday, a fire broke out
on the roof of M.M. Fountain’s cook room and threatened to destroy his house.
According to The Monroe Journal, “half a hundred citizens and visitors quickly
resolved themselves into a bucket brigade and the fire was soon extinguished
with slight damage.”
Feb. 28, 1916 – The L&N Railroad depot and freight house
at Monroe, together with all office furniture and supplies, were destroyed by
fire on this Monday night. There was only a small quantity of freight in the
warehouse at the time so the loss, aside from the building, was not heavy. The
fire was discovered at a late hour of the night by Mr. W.R. Shirley but was
already beyond control. It was believed that the building caught fire from an
overcharged telegraph wire, as an electric storm prevailed at an earlier hour
of the night.
Feb. 28, 1916 - Allied forces completed their conquest of the Cameroons, a German protectorate on the coast of western Africa.
Feb. 28, 1918 – During World War I, Army Pvt. Edward E.
English of Evergreen, Ala. “died in an accident.”
Feb. 28, 1921 – H.P. Lovecraft completed “The Quest of
Iranon,” which was originally published in the July-August 1935 issue of The
Galleon.
Feb. 28, 1925 – In Lovecraftian fiction, the lost island of
R’lyeh rose once again.
Feb. 28, 1930 – Major League Baseball third baseman Frank
Malzone was born in Bronx, N.Y. He would go on to play for the Boston Red Sox
and the California Angels.
Feb. 28, 1932 – H.P. Lovecraft completed “The Dreams in the
Witch House,” which was originally published in the July 1933 issue of Weird
Tales.
Feb. 28, 1933 – The Reichstag Fire Decree was passed in Germany,
a day after the Reichstag fire.
Feb. 28, 1945 – NFL defensive end Bubba Smith was born in
Orange, Texas. He would go on to play for Michigan State, the Baltimore Colts,
the Oakland Raiders and the Houston Oilers.
Feb. 28, 1946 – Ernie and Dot Lind, aka “The Shooting
Linds,” performed a “spectacular exhibition of fancy shooting” in Evergreen,
Ala.
Feb. 28, 1947 – Major League Baseball shortstop and second
baseman Marty Perez was born in Visalia, Calif. He would go on to play for the
California Angels, the Atlanta Braves, the San Francisco Giants, the New York
Yankees and the Oakland Athletics.
Feb. 28, 1952 – The Evergreen Courant reported that PFC
William Howard Peacock of Route One, Owasssa, Ala., was preparing to return to
Fort Campbell, Ky. from Camp Drum, N.Y. after several weeks of extensive cold
weather warfare training in Exercise Snow Fall in northern New York state.
Peacock was a member of the 11th Airborne Division and a gunner with the 188th
Airborne Regiment’s Support Command. He attended Evergreen High School, entered
the Army in 1949 and completed Parachutist School at Fort Benning, Ga.
Feb. 28, 1953 – NFL running back Roland Harper was born in
Seguin, Texas. He would go on to play for Louisiana Tech and the Chicago Bears.
Feb. 28, 1953 - In a Cambridge University laboratory,
scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix
structure of DNA.
Feb. 28, 1964 - A television version of Alabama author
Ambrose Bierce's story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" was
broadcast as part of the series “The
Twilight Zone.”
Feb. 28, 1965 – National Book Award-winning novelist Colum
McCann was born in Dublin.
Feb. 28, 1968 - General Earle
Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, returned from his recent round
of talks with General William Westmoreland in Saigon and immediately delivered
a written report to President Lyndon B. Johnson, stated that despite the heavy
casualties incurred during the Tet Offensive, North Vietnam and Viet Cong
forces had the initiative and were “operating with relative freedom in the
countryside.”
Feb. 28, 1976 – Actress Ali Larter was born in Cherry Hills,
New Jersey.
Feb. 28, 1980 – Evergreen High School’s varsity basketball
team, led by head coach Charles Branum, beat Wilcox County, 81-51, in the
opening round of the area tournament, which was played at W.S. Neal High School
in East Brewton, Ala. Horace Smith and Perona Rankins led Evergreen with 26
points and 22 points, respectively. Others scoring were Joe Mitchell, 12;
Sanford Moye, six; David Floyd, five; Philander Rogers, two; Johnny Allen, two;
Anthony Williams, two; Arturo Scott, two; and Michael Lampley, two.
Feb. 28, 1980 – Evergreen, Ala. radio station WBLO began
broadcasting after being off the air since Feb. 16 so that broadcast equipment
could be repaired and improved and the station’s signal expanded. John Bolton
was the station’s DJ.
Feb. 28, 1988 - A television version of Alabama author
Borden Deal's book “Bluegrass”
was broadcast.
Feb. 28, 1991 – The first Gulf War ended as U.S. President
George H.W. Bush declared a cease-fire, and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein pledged
to honor future United Nations peace terms.
Feb. 28, 1993 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
agents raided the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to
arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians
died in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
Feb. 28, 1995 - The Monroe County Hospital Board on this
Tuesday approved a new chief financial officer (CFO). Nellie Chunn, 24, of
Rocky Hill was recommended by Administrator Floyd Price to replace Chris Johns
as CFO. Chunn had worked as accounting manager at the hospital for the previous
three years. Chunn was a 1992 graduate of Troy State University with a degree
in computer science and accounting and a graduate of J.U. Blacksher High
School. She was selected from six applicants interviewed.
Feb. 28, 2002 - It was announced that John Madden would be
replacing Dennis Miller on "Monday Night Football." Madden signed a
four-year $20 million deal with ABC Sports.
Feb. 28, 2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting
centre in Al Hillah, Iraq killed 127.
Feb. 28, 2008 – The Barnes Cemetery in Butler County was
added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register.
Feb. 28, 2010 - Weather observer Harry Ellis reported that
total rainfall for the month of February 2010 was 3.50 inches and total
snowfall was five inches.
Feb. 28, 2014 – Country music singer-songwriter Hank Locklin
of Brewton, Ala. was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
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