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| William "Billy" Glenn Rushing |
June 15, 1215 - King John of England put his seal on the
Magna Carta.
June 15, 1479 – Italian model Lisa del Giocondo was born
Lisa Gherardini in Florence and went on to become the model for Leonardo da
Vinci’s famous portrait, Mona Lisa, which is currently housed in the Louvre in
Paris.
June 15, 1502 – Christopher Columbus landed on the island of
Martinique on his fourth voyage.
June 15, 1542 – English captain and explorer Richard
Grenville was born in Bideford, Devon, England.
June 15, 1607 - Colonists in North America completed James
Fort in Jamestown, Va.
June 15, 1648 – Margaret Jones was hanged in Boston for
witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
June 15, 1692 – In connection with the Salem witchcraft
trials, Cotton Mather wrote a letter requesting the court not use spectral
evidence as a standard and urging that the trials be speedy. The Court of Oyer
and Terminer paid more attention to the request for speed and less attention to
the criticism of spectral evidence.
June 15, 1752 – Benjamin Franklin is believed to have
performed his famous kite experiment and proved that lightning is electricity.
June 15, 1763 – Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa was born in
Kashiwabara, Japan.
June 15, 1775 – During the American Revolutionary War,
George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army by
the Second Continental Congress. John Adams formally nominated Washington for
the position, and Washington accepted the next day.
June 15, 1776 - The Assembly of the Lower Counties of
Pennsylvania declared itself independent of British and Pennsylvanian
authority. This act created the state of Delaware.
June 15, 1780 - Thomas Sumter was elected commander in chief
of the South Carolina militia and was appointed Brigadier General.
June 15, 1792 – Scottish-Australian colonel and explorer Sir
Thomas Mitchell was born in Grangemouth, Scotland.
June 15, 1804
– New Hampshire approved the Twelfth Amendment to the United States
Constitution, ratifying the document.
June 15, 1816
– At the Villa Diodati in the village of Cologny, Switzerland, Lord Byron read
“Fantasmagoriana” to his four
house guests — Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont and John Polidori
— and challenged each guest to write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary
Shelley writing the novel “Frankenstein,”
John Polidori writing the short story “The
Vampyre,” and Byron writing an unfinished vampire novel “Fragment of a Novel” and the poem “Darkness.”
June 15, 1821 – The official charter was issued to Alabama
Masonic Lodge No. 3 in Monroeville.
June 15, 1830 – Prominent Greenville, Ala. businessman W.W.
“Billy” Wilkinson, who was known as the “farmer’s friend,” was born in Dale
County, Ala.
June 15, 1836 – Arkansas was admitted as the 25th U.S.
state.
June 15, 1843 – Norwegian composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg was
born in Bergen, Norway.
June 15, 1849 - The eleventh president of the United States,
James Knox Polk, passed away at the age of 53 in Nashville, Tenn.
June 15, 1861 – The Jefferson County Volunteers were
organized at Enon Camp Ground at Elyton and soon became Co. B, 10th Alabama Regiment,
C.S.A.
June 15, 1861
– During the Civil War, Confederate forces abandoned Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia,
falling back into the Shenandoah Valley. Federal forces also occupied Jefferson
City, Missouri.
June 15, 1862 - Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart returned
from his ride around the Army of the Potomac. Robert E. Lee had sent him on a
reconnaissance of Union positions. On June 12, Stuart began his ride in which
he circled the entire Union force.
June 15, 1862 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought at
St. Marks in Wakulla County, Fla.
June 15, 1862 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought near Seven Pines, Va. and at Big Creek Gap, Tenn.
Federal reconnaissance was also conducted near New Market, Virginia.
June 15, 1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln put out an
emergency call for 100,000 troops from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and West
Virginia, wanting them to help protect Washington, D.C., America’s capital city.
The call was not needed because the Confederates did not move toward Washington.
Although the troops were not needed, and the call could not be fulfilled in
such a short time, it was an indication of how little the Union authorities
knew of Lee’s movements and how vulnerable they thought the Federal capital
was.
June 15, 1863 – During the Civil
War, the siege at Vicksburg, Miss. entered Day 28.
June 15, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought near Trenton, Tenn. and near Williamsport, Md.
June 15, 1864 – During the American Civil War, the Second
Battle of Petersburg began as Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac and Robert
E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia collided for the last time as the first wave
of Union troops attacked Petersburg, a vital Southern rail center 23 miles
south of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va. The two massive armies would
not become disentangled until April 9, 1865, when Lee surrendered and his men
went home.
June 15, 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery was established
when 200 acres around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General
Robert E. Lee) were officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S.
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
June 15, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought near White Hare, Mo.; near Malvern Hill and Smith’s
Store, Va.; in Georgia along Noonday Creek, at Brush Mountain, Gilgal, Golgotha
Church, and near Allatoona; at Ratliffs, Como and Magnolia Landing, La.; at
Moscow, Tenn.; and at Beulah Landing, Miss.
June 15, 1878 - Eadweard Muybridge used a series of cameras
set on trip wires to film a running horse. Legend has it that his goal was to
win a bet over whether or not horses had all four feet up at some point during
their gait. His ingenious solution to this wager is credited as being the birth
of the motion picture industry.
June 15, 1891 – Richard Francis Burton was laid to rest in
the sandstone tent tomb in Mortlake, London.
June 15, 1895 – A regular communication of Monroeville
Masonic Lodge No. 153 was scheduled for this day to elect officers and handle
other business. F.M. Jones was the lodge’s secretary.
June 15, 1896 - Dr. L.J. Robbins left the Pineville
community for Mt. Pleasant on this Monday, and he was expected to be absent for
some time.
June 15, 1896 - Miss Sophie Neville opened a school in the
Pleasant Ridge neighborhood on this Monday, according to The Monroe Journal.
June 15, 1896 - Capt. Thomas A. Nettles of Longstreet was in
Monroeville on this Monday attending a meeting of the Monroe County Board of
Pension Commissioners, of which he was a member.
June 15, 1898 - The U.S. House of representatives approved
the annexation of Hawaii.
June 15, 1902 – Psychologist and psychoanalyst Erik Erickson
was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
June 15, 1906
– Belgian SS officer Léon Degrelle was born in Bouillon, Wallonia, Belgium.
June 15, 1909 - Benjamin Shibe patented the cork center
baseball.
June 15, 1914 – Cartoonist Saul Steinberg was born near
Bucharest, Romania.
June 15, 1915 – The first telephone line between Evergreen,
Ala. and the community of Brooklyn, Ala. was scheduled to be in operation on
this date, according to Manager Jones of the local telephone exchange.
Junt 15, 1916 – The Conecuh Record reported that J. Frank
Davis, who had been appointed postmaster at Andalusia, was a Conecuh County
boy, the son of the late M.A. Davis of Old Town beat. He moved to Andalusia
several years before and had been engaged in the mercantile business. He
succeeded J.F. Brawner, who was another native of Conecuh, son of Wm. Brawner,
and was born in Evergreen, moving to Andalusia when a small boy.
June 15, 1916 – The Conecuh Record reported that Mrs. W.C.
Crumpton had left for Chicago, where she was to spend the summer months with
her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Carter. While in Chicago, Crumpton
planned to study at the American Conservatory under the famous piano teacher,
Silvio Scionti, and was to also take a special course in the newer methods of
piano teaching. In the fall, Crumpton planned to return to Evergreen and again
take charge of the music classes in the two schools.
June 15, 1916 – The Monroe Journal reported that the
following officers of Monroe Lodge No. 458 had been elected for the ensuing
Masonic year: A.H. Johnson Jr., worshipful master; J.B. DuBose, senior warden;
J.W. Rutherford, junior warden; A. Massey, treasurer; J.D. McKinley, secretary;
C.L. Johnson, senior deacon; H.T. Rachels, junior deacon; J.E. Norwood, tiler.
There was to be a public installation of officers at Franklin on July 7. The
brethren of other lodges were earnestly requested to attend.
June 15, 1916 – The Monroe Journal reported that the
following officers of Monroeville Lodge No. 153 had been elected for the
ensuing year: A.B. Coxwell, worshipful master; W.T. Bayles, senior warden; J.T.
Newberry, junior warden; D.J. Hatter, treasurer; J.A. Lazenby, secretary;
Ivison Ryland, senior deacon; M.R. Sowell, junior deacon; L.L. Hendrix, tyler;
C.A. Williams, chaplain.
June 15, 1916
– U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of
America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
June 15, 1917 - Some two months after America’s formal entrance into World War I against Germany, the United States Congress passed the Espionage Act, which essentially made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country’s enemies.
June 15, 1918 – During World War I, Army 1LT William “Billy”
Glenn Rushing, a 25-year-old Mexican War veteran, of Atmore, Ala. “died from an
accident” in Tours, Departement d'Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France. He was the
son of Atmore mayor and Escambia County Probate Judge W.E. Rushing, graduated
with an electrical engineering degree from Auburn in 1915, and served as an
aviator in France. It was while on an assignment as a ferry pilot, out of
Tours, France, guarding off German planes to protect transport ships bringing
soldiers and munitions of war into France, that Rushing lost his life. Making a
turn, in some way his Farman-type plane went into a nose dive, and he was
almost instantly killed. Though flying at an altitude of 6,000 feet when the
accident occurred, when the plane plunged into a wheat field below, his body
was not mangled or disfigured in any way. He was initially laid to rest in
Grave No. 84, Tours, France, and was later brought back to Atmore for reburial.
In recognition of this record of service, his comrades named the Atmore
American Legion Post the Billy Glenn Rushing Post No. 90 when it was chartered on
Feb. 2, 1923. Born on Sept. 13, 1893 in Troy in Pike County, Rushing is buried
in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Atmore.
June 15, 1920 – H.P. Lovecraft completed “The Cats of
Ulthar,” which was originally published in Issue No. 11 of The Tryout in
November 1920.
June 15, 1921 – The Evergreen Courant reported, in news from
the Holly Grove community, that the young men of Holly Grove had organized a
baseball team and had procured their equipment. “This they intend to pay for as
soon as necessary funds can be raised,” The Courant said. “The opponents of
this team will find that they have been playing ball before they finish nine
periods with this team.”
June 15, 1921 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Dr. H.T.
Fountain of Burnt Corn attended the dedication of the White House of the
Confederacy and was among those who represented Conecuh County.
June 15, 1921 – The Evergreen Courant reported, under the
headline, “Irish Potato Season at Repton Closes,” that Repton had about
finished shipping Irish potatoes for the season, having shipped something like
30 cars from Repton and that vicinity. Each car contained about 500 bushels.
The price received was about $1 per bushel on an average. This was the first
time Repton had planted Irish potatoes, but the experiment had clearly
demonstrated the fact that Repton could compete with any place in the state
growing Irish potatoes.
June 15, 1925 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the
Cleveland Indians, 17-15. The Athletics had been down 11 runs heading into the
bottom of the eighth inning.
June 15, 1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park
was founded.
June 15, 1935 – Advertising executive and writer Ilene
Beckerman was born in Manhattan.
June 15, 1937 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien lost 16
members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to
occur on an 8000-meter peak.
June 15, 1938 - Johnny Vandemeer of the Cincinnati Reds
pitched his second straight no-hitter.
June 15, 1938 – National Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder
Billy Williams was born in Whistler, Ala. He went on to play for the Chicago
Cubs and the Oakland Athletics. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1987.
June 15, 1939 – The Monroe Journal announced that a new
newspaper in Frisco City, Ala. called The Frisco City Sun, had begun
publication with Eugene C. Thomley as editor.
June 15, 1945 – William Faulk Jr., 17, and John Quates, 15,
drowned in the Evergreen, Ala. Golf Course pond during the afternoon.
June 15, 1945 - Alabama author Amelie Rives died in
Charlottesville, Va.
June 15, 1947 – The Evergreen Greenies were scheduled to
play Monroeville on this Sunday in Monroeville, Ala.
June 15, 1947 – Science writer Dava Sobel was born in New
York City.
June 15, 1949 - Eddie Waitkus of the Philadelphia Phillies
was seriously injured when obsessed female fan, Ruth Ann Steinhagen, entered his
hotel room at Chicago’s Edgewater Beach Hotel and shot him.
June 15, 1951 - Downing Lodge No. 580, A.F. and A.M., of
Castleberry held their annual meeting on this Friday night at the Masonic Hall
with Benjamin Barlow presiding. The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: William Stanley Howell, worshipful master; William James Ellis,
senior warden; Alton W. Thompson, junior warden; C.N. Jackson, treasurer; C.U.
LeCroy, secretary; S.A. McGraw, senior deacon; C.W. Albreast, junior deacon; and
C.A. Poole, tyler.
June 15, 1952 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the New
York Giants, 14-12, after being down 11-0 in the fifth inning.
June 15, 1952 – On this Sunday, the temperature reached 100
degrees in Evergreen, Ala.
June 15, 1953 – Army Pvt. Lawrence D. Grantham, 20, of
Covington County, Ala. was killed in action in Korea. Born on June 27, 1932, he
was buried in the Whistler Cemetery (Therrell Annex) in Mobile County, Ala. Grantham
was a member of Co. F, 7th Infantry, 3rd Infantry
Division in Korea.
June 15, 1958 – National Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman
Wade Boggs was born in Omaha, Neb. He went on to play for the Boston Red Sox,
the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He was inducted into the
Hall of Fame in 2005.
June 15, 1961 – The Evergreen Courant reported that three
Conecuh County, Ala. teachers had announced their retirements after the end of
the recent school year. They were Frances Shaver of Evergreen High School,
Eleaner Dean Holland of Brockton School and Mary Bradley of Castleberry.
June 15, 1962 – As part of Lyeffion High School’s summer
“Recreation Hour” program, a color film of the 1962 Senior Bowl was shown in
the Lyeffion gym.
June 15, 1963 - Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants
threw a no-hitter. It was the first Giants no-hitter since Carl Hubbell in
1929.
June 15, 1964 – Actress, producer and director Courteney Cox
was born in Birmingham, Ala.
June 15, 1964 - At a meeting of the
National Security Council, McGeorge Bundy, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s
national security advisor, informed those in attendance that President Johnson
had decided to postpone submitting a resolution to Congress asking for
authority to wage war.
June 15, 1965 - U.S. planes bombed
targets in North Vietnam, but refrained from bombing Hanoi and the Soviet
missile sites that surrounded the city.
June 15, 1966 – Aviation pioneer Robert G. Fowler passed
away at the age of 81. He landed in Evergreen, Ala. on Jan. 15, 1912 during the
first ever west to east cross-country flight across the United States.
June 15, 1968 – National Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder
Sam Crawford passed away at the age of 88 in Hollywood, Calif. During his
career, he played for the Cincinnati Reds and the Detroit Tigers. He was
inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1957.
June 15, 1970 – Charles Manson went on trial for the Sharon
Tate murders.
June 15, 1971 – The Sparta Academy Quarterback Club
sponsored a barbecue chicken dinner, which was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at
the Old Louisville & Nashville Depot in Evergreen, Ala. The club’s newly
elected officers included President Pete Taylor, Vice President Bob Owens and
Secretary-Treasurer Ralph Culbreth.
June 15, 1977 - The New York Mets dealt Tom Seaver to the
Cincinnati Reds.
June 15, 1983 – Alabama Lt. Gov.
George McMillan visited Conecuh County, Ala. and spoke at the County Courthouse
as part of his gubernatorial campaign.
June 15, 1988 – “Bull Durham” was released in theatres.
June 15, 1988 – Poole Truck Line founder Walter Poole
retired from the company to participate in a business venture with his son,
Pat.
June 15, 1989 - Nirvana's first album "Bleach" was
released.
June 15, 1991 – Evergreen 14-&15-year-old Babe Ruth
All-Stars were announced. Team members included Sedrick Fluker, Shannon Sims,
Eric Owens, Matthew Jones, Marlo McDaniel, Rhett Wilson, Willie Womack, Robert
Ball, Isaac McMillan, Shannon Shufford, Britt Ward, Bryant Robinson, Steven
Bledsoe and Robert Rabren. Rhett Wilson was named the MVP of the
14&15-year-olds, and Shannon Sufford was the runner-up.
June 15, 1991 – Evergreen’s 13-year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars
were announced. Team members were Reggie Boykin, Tommy Byrd, Josh Scott, Lavon
Merrills, Detrick Womack, James Johnson, Kevin Riley, Chad Wilson, Joey
Griffin, Henry Holt, Lewis Lowe and Gabriel Potts. – Detrick Womack was named
the Most Valuable Player of the Evergreen 13-year-old Babe Ruth Baseball League
and Reggie Boykin was the runner-up.
June 15, 1991 – Eight people were injured in a two-vehicle
accident that occurred on this Saturday afternoon on County Road 29, about
three miles from Evergreen, Ala.
June 15, 1991 – Lizbeth McMillan of Evergreen, Ala. passed
away at the age of 88 (or 87 years) at Evergreen Nursing Home. Known as “Miss
Lib,” she taught school for 46 years and for 43 of those years she taught the
fifth grade in the same classroom at Evergreen City School, before retiring in
1969. The sister of former City School principal W.P. (Paul) McMillan, she is
buried in Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Bullock County, Ala.
June 15, 1993 - Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 100th career home
run making him the sixth youngest to reach 100.
June 15, 1999 – Will Clark of the Baltimore Orioles got his
2000th hit versus the Kansas City Royals.
June 15, 2003 - In northeast London, a trailer was stolen
that contained thousands of copies of J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter and
The Order Of The Phoenix." The empty trailer was discovered two days
later.
June 15, 2005 - More than two weeks after Alabama teen
Natalee Holloway vanished while on a high school graduation trip to the
Caribbean island of Aruba, police there search the home of 17-year-old Joran
Van der Sloot, one of the last known people to see the young woman alive.
Although Van der Sloot would emerge as a prime suspect in the case, he was
never charged. Holloway’s disappearance generated massive media attention in
the United States; however, her body never has been found, and in 2012 she was
declared legally dead.
June 15, 2005 - The New York Yankees announced plans for a
new $800 million stadium. The plans called for the building to be next to
Yankee Stadium and be ready by the 2009 season.
June 15, 2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to
successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.
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