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| Repton Masonic Lodge in Repton, Ala. |
May 6, 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commenced in which Incan
forces attempted to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
May 6, 1536 – King Henry VIII ordered that English-language
Bibles be placed in every church.
May 6, 1775 - New Jersey Royal Governor William Franklin
wrote that the violence at Lexington and Concord greatly diminished the chances
of reconciliation between Britain and her North American colonies.
May 6, 1778 - Continental Army Colonel Ethan Allen returned
to the United States as part of a prisoner exchange. He had been captured by
the British on Sept. 27, 1776.
May 6, 1835 – James Gordon Bennett Sr. published the first
issue of The New York Herald.
May 6, 1851 – John Dellet Morrissette died near Houston,
Texas. A veteran of the War of 1812, he was an early Monroe County lawyer and
planter. Born on Oct. 16, 1793 in Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tenn., he was
elected to the state legislature in 1829 and state senate in 1845 and 1849. He
is buried in the Morrissette Family Cemetery at Packers Bend.
May 6, 1856 – American explorer Robert Peary was born in Cresson, Pa. He
claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his
expedition on April 6, 1909.
May 6, 1956 – Sigmund Freud was born in Freiburg, Moravia.
May 6, 1859 – German geographer and explorer Alexander von
Humboldt passed away at the age of 89 in Berlin.
May 6, 1861 – During the Civil War, Richmond, Virginia was
declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
May 6, 1861 - The long-expected
became actual on this day as the legislatures of Tennessee and Arkansas both
passed Ordinances of Secession from the Union. Based on which one was ruled to
have acted earlier, Tennessee became the ninth and Arkansas the tenth members
of the Confederate States of America. The real question was whether Kentucky
and Missouri would follow their neighbors’ lead. Strong efforts were underway
both to assure and prevent this outcome.
May 6, 1862 - Union forces occupied Williamsburg, Virginia.
May 6, 1862 – During the Civil War,
skirmishes were fought on White River in Arkansas; near Harrisonburg, Va.; and
in the vicinity of Camp McDonald and Arnoldsburg, West Virginia.
May 6, 1863 – During the Civil War, the Battle of
Chancellorsville ended with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by
Confederate troops.
May 6, 1863 – Joseph Tarpley Peacock, who was the father of
Lewis Lavon Peacock, filed a claim on behalf of his son James T. Peacock, who
died on Feb. 2, 1863 while serving with the Third Alabama.
May 6, 1863 - A nine-day Federal
operation between the White and St. Francis Rivers, Ark. began. A Federal
operation between Bowling Green, Ky. to the Tennessee state line began.
Skirmishes were fought at Warrenton, Va. and at West Union, West Virginia.
May 6, 1864 - In the opening battle in the biggest campaign
of the Civil War, Union and Confederate troops continued their desperate
struggle in the Wilderness forest in Virginia. General Ulysses S. Grant,
commander of the Union forces, had joined George Meade’s Army of the Potomac to
encounter Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in the tangled Wilderness
forest near Chancellorsville, the site of Lee’s brilliant victory the year
before. The fighting was intense, and raging fires that consumed the dead and
wounded magnified the horror of battle. But little was gained in the confused
attacks by either side. In two days, the Union lost 17,000 men to the
Confederates’ 11,000. This was nearly one-fifth of each army.
May 6, 1864 – A number of the members of the Conecuh Guards
were killed or wounded on this day during the Battle of the Wilderness in
Virginia. Augustus Johnston and Newton Snowden were killed in the battle. 2nd
Lt. John S. Stearns, 2nd Sgt. Alfred H. Floyd, 3rd Cpl. James Robertson, M.A.
Cooper, Henry C. Chapman and Stephen Quinley were wounded. Stearns, who was
also wounded in Knoxville, Tenn. in November 1863, died in 1880. Floyd lost a
leg due to the wounds he received at the Wilderness, was honorably discharged
and later moved to Texas. Chapman was placed on the retired list and moved to
Texas after the war. Cooper and Quinley also moved to Texas after the war.
May 6, 1864 – Lt. Col. Hilary Abner Herbert of Greenville,
Ala. received a severe, disabling wound in his left arm at the Battle of the
Wilderness. He would go on to serve as a U.S. Representative from Alabama’s
Second Congressional District and as Secretary of the Navy under Grover
Cleveland.
May 6, 1864 – During the Civil War,
skirmishes were fought with Indians near Boynton’s Prairie, Calif.; at Tampa,
Fla.; at Tunnel Hill, Ga.; in the vicinity of Morganfield, Ky.; at Bayou
Lamourie, at Boyce’s Plantation, in the Calcasieu Pass, Napoleonville and at
Well’s Plantation, La.; near Bloomfield, Mo.; near City Point, Port Walthall
Junction and Chester Station, Va.; and at Princeton, West Virginia. A five-day
Federal operation between Patterson, Mo. and Cherokee Bay, Ark. began.
May 6, 1865 – During the Civil War,
Federal reconnaissance was conducted from Richmond to Staunton and
Charlottesville, Va.
May 6, 1868 – French journalist and novelist Gaston Leroux
was born in Paris.
May 6, 1886 - Dr. J.T. Russell left on this Thursday evening
for Hunter’s Mill, where he was to deliver an address the following day to the
people in the interest of his candidacy for representative, according to The
Monroe Journal.
May 6, 1886 - Dr. J.T. Packer and Capt. T.S. Wiggins returned
from an unsuccessful fishing excursion to Flat Creek, according to The Monroe
Journal.
May 6, 1889 – The Eiffel Tower officially opened to the
public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
May 6, 1896 - Capt. F.M. Jones, after spending several weeks
with relatives and friends at Monroeville, left on this Wednesday for his home
at Milton, Fla., accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Q. Salter.
May 6, 1899 – The “Spanish Evacuation Centennial” was held
at St. Stephens, Ala., which at the time was only a wilderness with a few
overgrown ruins.
May 6, 1901 – The dispensation (organizational) meeting for
Repton Masonic Lodge No. 575 was held in Repton, Ala.
May 6, 1903 - The Chicago White Sox committed 12 errors
against the Detroit Tigers.
May 6, 1907 – Pro Football Hall of
Fame coach Weeb Ewbank was born in Richmond, Indiana. He went on to coach the
Baltimore Colts and the New York Jets. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in
1978.
May 6, 1914 – Poet and critic
Randall Jarrell was born in Nashville, Tenn.
May 6, 1915 – Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisc.
May 6, 1915 – The Monroe Journal reported that “beginning
the first week in May, merchants of the city began observance of the rule of
six o’clock closing, except on Saturdays, thus affording proprietors and
employees an opportunity for needed recreation.”
May 6, 1915 – Babe Ruth hit his first Major League home run
while pitching for the Boston Red Sox. The game was also his pitching debut.
May 6, 1915 – The Monroe Journal reported that Monroeville
city officials were having the downtown square enclosed to prevent damage to
the surface by vehicles. The square had recently been graded and the
surrounding walks “nicely graveled.”
May 6, 1915 - After a first attempt
to capture the village of Krithia, on the Gallipoli Peninsula, failed on April
28, 1915, a second was initiated on this day by Allied troops under the British
commander Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston.
May 6, 1920 - Dramatist William Berney was born in
Birmingham, Ala.
May 6, 1925 - Ty Cobb hit his fifth homerun in only two
games. The feat tied Cap Anson's record in 1884.
May 6, 1929 - The American League announced that it would
discontinue the MVP award.
May 6, 1931 – National Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder
Willie Mays was born in Westfield, just outside of Bessemer, Ala. He went on to
play for the New York/San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets. He was
inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1979.
May 6, 1934 - The Boston Red Sox hit a record of four
consecutive triples.
May 6, 1935 – As part of the “New Deal,” Executive Order
7034 created the Works Progress Administration.
May 6, 1937 - The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and
was destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New
Jersey. Thirty-six people were killed.
May 6, 1937 – Evergreen’s baseball team beat Jay, 6-3. Doc
Jones pitched, registering his first win of the season. Evergreen scored in the
second, eighth and ninth innings with Jay pushing runs across in the second,
fifth and sixth. Jim Lane drove in the winning run by slamming a scorching line
drive to left scoring Seabrook who had walked and stole second. “Coach”
Clements, who base running has been sensational throughout early games,
continued his swiping tactics in both games during the previous week, stealing
second and third in this game.
May 6, 1938 – The Panama City Pels baseball team beat the
Evergreen Greenies, 12-0, in Panama City on this Friday night.
May 6, 1940 – John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
for his novel “The Grapes of Wrath.”
May 6, 1946 - The New York Yankees became the first Major
League Baseball team to travel by plane.
May 6, 1952 - Conecuh County voters went to the polls on
this Tuesday to select nominees for state, district and county offices,
climaxing one of the quietest campaigns Conecuh County had seen in many years.
As a consequence, only some 2,668 ballots were cast out of a possible more than
4,000 on the qualified list of voters. Ideal weather prevailed throughout the
day.
May 6, 1954 – Roger Bannister became the first person to run
the mile in under four minutes.
May 6, 1957 - U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles in Courage.”
May 6, 1957 - Alabama journalist Buford Boone of The Tuscaloosa News
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Reporting for his editorials on
segregation.
May 6, 1958 – Evergreen High School’s baseball team traveled
to Frisco City on this Tuesday for their first game in the area playoffs. This
also proved to be their last game in the playoffs as they lost, 8-2. The
winning pitcher for the Whippets was J. Dunn, although he was relieved by R.
Dunn in the fourth inning. J. Dunn also led the Frisco City hitters as he
collected a home run. Ken Tucker pitched for the Aggies and pitched a good ball
game, but was a victim of poor support with E.H.S. committing several errors.
Frisco City jumped to a quick 1-0 lead, but the Aggies scored two runs in the
third inning to go ahead for the only time as the Whippets scored three runs
the next inning and went ahead to stay.
May 6, 1967 – Army PFC Bobby Waits Cameron, 20, of Hayden in
Butler County, Ala. was killed in action in Binh Duong, Vietnam. Born on May
28, 1946, he was a member of Co. A, 14th Infantry, 25th
Infantry Division. He is buried in the Red Hill Church of God Cemetery in Jefferson
County.
May 6, 1970- Hundreds of colleges
and universities across the nation shut down as thousands of students joined a
nationwide campus protest in reaction to the shooting of four students at Kent
State University by National Guardsmen during a campus demonstration about
President Nixon’s decision to send U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into
Cambodia.
May 6, 1972 - The remnants of South
Vietnam’s 5th Division at An Loc continued to receive daily artillery battering
from the communist forces surrounding the city as reinforcements fought their
way from the south up Highway 13.
May 6, 1975 – Three armed men robbed the Union Bank of
Castleberry, Ala. around noon and got away with about $6,400.
May 6, 1976 - Dr. Elijah Williams of Evergreen, the pastor
of Bethel Baptist Church in Clausell, drowned on this Thursday morning while
fishing in a private pond near Evergreen, according to the Conecuh County
Sheriff’s Department. Williams, 68, was pronounced dead by the coroner after
his body was recovered from the pond by the Conecuh County and Bermuda rescue
squads. Law enforcement officials said the boat from which Williams was fishing
apparently capsized.
May 6, 1976 - The Monroeville Fire Department, the Peterman
Fire Department and the Bermuda Fire Department were among six departments
called to Evergreen on this Thursday night to aid firemen there who were
extinguishing a large fire in the downtown area.
May 6, 1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously
selected Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421
other entries.
May 6, 1983 – The “Hitler Diaries” were revealed as a hoax
after examination by experts.
May 6, 1989 – The Third Annual Strawberry Festival was held
in Castleberry, Ala. and “several thousand” visitors attended the event. In the
five-mile run, Alan Ash was the top male finisher with a time of 30:16.03, and
Dale Ash was to the top women’s finisher with a time of 36:09.30. In the
three-mile run, Eddie Barton was the top male finisher, running the race in
18:09.30, and Melissa Denbow was the top female finisher, running the distance
in 19:46.45.
May 6, 1992 - Anthony Young of the New York Mets began a
losing streak of 26 games.
May 6, 1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and
French President François Mitterrand officiated at the opening of the Channel
Tunnel, the tunnel under the English Channel that links England and France.
May 6, 1994 – Episode No. 23 of “The X-Files” – entitled
“Roland” – aired for the first time.
May 6, 1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby
was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he
disappeared.
May 6, 1996 - The television program “My Son Is Innocent,”
teleplay by Alabama author Robert Inman and Philip Rosenberg, was broadcast.
May 6, 1998 – Kerry Wood struck out 20 Houston Astros to tie
the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did
not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
May 6, 2005 – James Leroy Stacey of Frisco City died at the
age of 80 at Monroe County Hospital in Monroeville, Ala.
May 6, 2005 - The Harper Lee Award for Alabama's
Distinguished Writer was given to Alabama author Andrew Hudgins at the Alabama
Writers Symposium in Monroeville, Ala.
May 6, 2010 – National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Robin
Roberts passed away at the age of 83 in Temple Terrace, Fla. During his playing
career, he played for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Baltimore Orioles, the
Houston Astros and the Chicago Cubs. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in
1976.
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