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| USMC Major Clifton Bishop Andrews |
July 25, 1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar, on his search of El
Dorado, founded the city of Santiago de Cali.
July 25, 1538 – The city of Guayaquil, in present-day
Ecuador, was founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and
given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
July 25, 1567 – Don Diego de Losada founded the city of
Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
July 25, 1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, was deliberately driven
ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking. The survivors went on
to found a new colony there.
July 25, 1693 – Ignacio de Maya founded the Real Santiago de
las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.
July 25, 1759
– During the French and Indian War, in Western New York, British forces
captured Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandoned Fort Rouillé.
July 25, 1779 - An expedition from Massachusettes arrived at
Castine on Penobscot Peninsula with the objective of capturing a 750-man
British garrison.
July 25, 1780 - American General Horatio Gates took command
of the southern army from Major General Johann DeKalb at Coxe’s Mill, N.C. When
Gates took command, the Patriots numbered about 1,200 regulars, who were
severely debilitated by hunger and in need of equipment, as well as a large
group of militia, whose exact number is unknown. DeKalb, a German-born soldier
who had served in both the French and German armies before volunteering his
services to the Patriots, remained with the force as part of Gates’
headquarters staff.
July 25, 1783 – During the American Revolutionary War's last
action, the Siege of Cuddalore, was ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
July 25, 1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entered into his catalog the completion of one of
his most beloved works, Symphony Number 40 in G Minor
(sometimes called “The Great G Minor Symphony”).
July 25, 1794 – Accused of being a spy, Prussian aristocrat
and adventurer Friedrich von der Trenck, who had been sent to France by the
Austrian government to observe the events of the French Revolution, was
executed in Paris by the guillotine at the age of 67, two days before the fall
of Robespierre and the end of The Terror.
July 25, 1805 - Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to
establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city.
July 25, 1813 – Colonel James Caller of Washington County
crossed the Tombigbee River at St. Stephens with three small companies under
Captains Bailey, Heard, Benjamin Smoot and David Cartwright. Patrick May was
lieutenant of Capt. Smoot’s company. They passed through the town of Jackson,
marched to Fort Glass and was reinforced by a company under Capt. Sam Dale, with
Lt. Walter G. Creagh as second in command.
July 25, 1814 - George
Stephenson made the first successful demonstration of the steam locomotive in
Northern England. His engine pulled eight loaded wagons
of 30 tons’ weight about four miles an hour up a hill.
July 25, 1814
– During the War of 1812, at the Battle of Lundy's Lane, reinforcements arrived
near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a
bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commenced at 6 p.m.; the
Americans retreated to Fort Erie.
July 25, 1814 – During the War of 1812, an American attack
on Canada was repulsed.
July 25, 1825 – During his tour of the United States, the
Marquis de Lafayette again visited Wilmington, Delaware.
July 25, 1832 - The first recorded railroad accident in U.S.
history occurred when four people were thrown off a vacant car on the Granite
Railway near Quincy, Mass.
July 25, 1837
– The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph was successfully
demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone between Euston and Camden
Town in London.
July 25, 1839 – French captain and explorer Francis Garnier
was born at Saint-Étienne, Loire.
July 25, 1861 – During the Civil War, the U.S. Congress
passed the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, declaring that the Civil War was
being waged for the reunion of the states and not to interfere with the
institutions of the South, namely slavery. The measure was important in keeping
the pivotal states of Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland in the Union. For the first
year and a half of the war, reunification of the United States was the official
goal of the North, and it was not until Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of
September 1862 that slavery became a goal.
July 25, 1861 – During the Civil War, with his troops’
enlistment expiring, Robert Patterson was relieved of duty in the Shenandoah
Valley. He had failed to hold Joseph Johnston in Winchester to prevent Johnston
from moving east to support Beauregard at Manassas.
July 25, 1861 – During the Civil
War, the U.S. Congress approved the use of volunteers to put down the
rebellion.
July 25, 1861 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Mesilla, New Mexico and at Dug Springs and
Harrisonville in Missouri.
July 25, 1862 – During the Civil War, skirmishes were fought
at Courtland and Trinity in Alabama.
July 25, 1862 – During the Civil
War, a two-day Federal operation began in the vicinity of Mountain Store, Mo.
An eight-day Federal operation also began around Lake Ponchartrain and Pas
Manchac in Louisiana, and up the Peal River in Mississippi.
July 25, 1862 – During the Civil
War, a Federal operation began at Holly Springs, Miss., proceeded through
Bolivar, Tenn., and ended at Jackson, Tenn.
July 25, 1862 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Clinton Ferry, Tenn. and at Summerville, W.Va.
July 25, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Brownsville, Ark.; at Barbee's Cross Roads and
at Gloucester Court House in Virginia; near Springfield and Steubenville, Ohio;
and at Williamsburg and near New Hope Church in Kentucky.
July 25, 1863 – During the Civil
war, the Department of East Tennessee, comprised of 17,800 men under Simon
Bolivar Buckner, was merged into Braxton Bragg's Department of Tennessee. Major
General Buckner was assigned command of a corps.
July 25, 1864 – During the Civil War, a Federal cavalry
operation took place from Decatur to Courtland in Alabama.
July 25, 1864 – During the Civil
War, a Federal operation began against Sioux Indians in the Dakota Territory.
July 25, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought near Benton’s Ferry, on the Amite River, in Louisiana;
at Williamsport, Md.; at Pleasant Hill, Mo. and another at Benton, Ark.; and at
Bunker Hill and Martinsburg in West Virginia
July 25, 1866 – The Burnt Corn, Ala. post office was
discontinued, but was later reestablished on Aug. 5, 1867.
July 25, 1866 – The United States Congress passed
legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army, and Lieutenant General
Ulysses S. Grant became the first to be promoted to this rank.
July 25, 1868 - For the first time since 1861, Alabama's two
U.S. senators took their seats in Congress, thus signifying Alabama's
readmission to the Union. "Carpetbaggers" George E. Spencer and
Willard Warner, both natives of northern states, served as Republicans.
July 25, 1868 - The U.S. Congress passed an act creating the
Wyoming Territory.
July 25, 1896 - A basket picnic was scheduled to be held at
the Wiggins school house near Tekoa on this Saturday.
July 25-26, 1896 - Miss Sophie Neville, who was teaching at
Pleasant Ridge, spent this Saturday and Sunday in Monroeville, Ala.
July 25, 1896 - Prof. C.C. Sellers, principal of the
Finchburg Academy, was in Monroeville, Ala. on this Saturday. He reports that
60 pupils were enrolled at his school and more were still coming.
July 25, 1897 – Novelist Jack London set out to join the
Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon, a remote and unforgiving region in northwest
Canada and Alaska.
July 25, 1902 – Writer Eric Hoffer was born in New York
City.
July 25, 1904 – Newspaper editor and humor columnist Earl
Lee Tucker was born in Thomasville, Ala. For 30 years, Tucker wrote a popular
humor column, "Rambling Roses and Flying Bricks," which originated in
The Thomasville Times. Many of his columns were gathered in three books
published in 1958, 1959, and 1960.
July 25, 1905 – Nobel Prize-winning novelist Elias Canetti
was born in Ruse, Bulgaria. He is best known for his 1935 novel, “The Tower of
Babel.”
July 25, 1906 – Saxophonist Johnny “Rabbit” Hodges was born
in Cambridge, Mass.
July 25, 1906 - After a painful illness extending over many
months, John F. Deer died at his home in Monroeville, Ala. at noon on this
Wednesday. The interment was to take place at the Baptist cemetery the
following day with Masonic honors. Deer was twice elected to the office of
County Treasurer, but was forced by ill health to resign just before the close
of his second term. On the advice of his physician, he moved to New Mexico
where he remained several months but the fatal malady with which he was
afflicted had gained too firm a hold upon him, and he returned home without
material improvement, resigned to die with his family.
July 25, 1907 - Miss Jennie Faulk left on this day for New
York where she planned to purchase her fall stock of goods. She also planned to
visit the Jamestown exposition before she returned home.
July 25, 1907 – The Monroe Journal reported that J.S.
Lambard, a prominent merchant and planter of Gainestown, favored The Journal
with a pleasant call while passing through town the week before en route to
Riley, Ala., where he attended a reunion of the survivors of Co. C, 5th
Alabama, at the home of its commander, Capt. T.M. Riley.
July 25, 1910 – Prominent Conecuh County citizen and former
Confederate officer Pinckney D. Bowles passed away at the age of 75 at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Cobb, in Tampa, Fla., where he’d been several weeks prior
to his death. He is buried in the Old Evergreen Cemetery in Conecuh County,
Ala.
July 25, 1914 – Monroeville’s baseball team suffered its
first losses of the season, snapping a 23-game winning streak. They lost both
games of a double header against Finchburg, 4-2 and 16-4, in Monroeville, Ala.
July 25, 1914 – A reunion of Capt. Thomas Mercer Riley’s
Civil War company was held at Riley’s home with 10 members of the unit being
present - Capt. T.M. Riley, John A. McCants, Robert W. McCants, Hugh E.
Coutney, W.S. Wiggins, Bright Waters, Joseph F. Watson, Julius C. Finklea and
W.G. Riley.
July 25, 1917 – Edward C. Barnes was appointed to a second
term as Evergreen, Alabama’s postmaster.
July 25, 1917 - In Paris, France, the exotic dancer Mata
Hari (Margueretha Gertruida Zelle) was sentenced to death by a French court for
spying on Germany’s behalf during World War I.
July 25, 1923 – Jack M. Williams passed away at the age of
80 and was buried at the Awin Community Cemetery in Wilcox County, Ala. Born on
July 11, 1843, Williams was the first postmaster at Awin in Wilcox County. The
local explanation for the name “Awin” is tat Williams, after asking for
suggestions for a name for the post office, wrote “A win” beside the one the
majority of residents favored, and post office officials took his comment to be
the chosen name. The post office was established here in 1881.
July 25, 1929 – Grove Hill, Ala. was officially incorporated
as a municipality.
July 25, 1932 - Sam McCorrey shot and killed Mary Cooper
near Eliska on this Monday night. Immediately after the shooting, the Sheriff
was notified and Tuesday morning, July 26, the deputy was sent to the scene of
the killing where he found McCorrey ready to surrender. McCorrey’s statement
was to the effect that the Cooper woman was trying to take a shotgun away from
him when the weapon was accidentally discharged. McCorrey was placed in the
county jail to await the action of the grand jury. Both McCorrey and Cooper had
been living in the Eliska community about 12 years.
July 25, 1934 – The Nazis assassinated Austrian Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
July 25, 1938 – This Monday night was one of the biggest
nights the Evergreen troop had enjoyed in a long while. Before the regular
business meeting, the boys played games and had a watermelon cutting that
everybody enjoyed to the utmost, according to The Evergreen Courant. A short
business meeting was attended to in quick order. The efficiency contest saw an upheaval
in the standings as the Golden Eagle patrol passed the Beaver with a cool 136
points. The Silver Fox patrol remained in the third slot while the Pioneers
kept the cellar clean.
July 25, 1942 – The Norwegian Manifesto called for
nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
July 25, 1943 – The USS Eldridge was launched and was
commissioned on Aug. 27, 1943 with Lieutenant C. R. Hamilton, USNR, in command.
July 25, 1944 – Staff Sgt. Donald Everette Oliver, 25, of
Conecuh County, Ala. was killed in France while serving with the 29th
Infantry, 9th Division in World War II. Funeral services for Oliver
were held on July 2, 1948 at London Church with the Rev. C.L. Weekly
officiating. He was born on June 21, 1919 in Castleberry and was buried in the
London Cemetery in Conecuh County.
July 25, 1946 – In Amateur League Baseball action, the
Evergreen Greenies were scheduled to play their first home game of the season
against Uriah at the Evergreen High School stadium at 3 p.m. in Evergreen, Ala.
July 25, 1946 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Lt.
Ralph Edwin Boggs, the 25-year-old husband of Frances E. Boggs of Repton, Ala.,
had been awarded the Air Medal with a gold star in lieu of his second Air Medal
by Navy Secretary James Forrestal on behald of the President. Boggs, who had
been missing in action since July 24, 1945, earned the award for meritorious
service in aerial flight as leader of a fighter bomber division in action
against enemy forces in the Pacific. Born on Feb. 18, 1920, grave markers can
be found in National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii and Oakland
Memorial Cemetery in Clarksville, Ark.
July 25, 1946 - The Evergreen Courant reported that the U.S.
Employment Service in Evergreen, Ala. had been notified by the State Highway
Department that a work order had been released to the Scott Construction Co.
for work on the highway from Evergreen to Excel.
July 25, 1950 – The “Hub Drive-In” theater opened at Ollie,
Ala., between the present-day Huddle House and Days Inn, and was managed by
Ralph Mann.
July 25, 1952 – The archipelago of Puerto Rico became a
self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
July 25, 1953 – Pro Football Hall of Fame running back
Walter Payton was born in Columbia, Miss. He went on to play for Jackson State
and the Chicago Bears. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993.
July 25, 1955 – The Evergreen Giants beat the Red Sox,
14-12, in a game that was call at the end of the fifth inning due to darkness.
Players for the Giants included winning pitcher Eddie Lambert, David Hyde, Leon
Stinson and Terry Trawick. Players for the Red Sox included losing pitcher
LeGrand Lynch, Conner Warren and Billy Melton.
July 25, 1964 - Following a meeting
of the National Security Council to discuss the deteriorating situation in
Saigon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up a memo proposing air strikes against
North Vietnam.
July 25, 1965 - A seminal event in rock and roll history
took place when Bob Dylan "went electric" during his infamous performance
at the Newport Folk Festival. A hero to the folk music community, Dylan's
switch to electric guitar was seen as the ultimate act of betrayal by many in
the audience, who booed the performance. Urban legend has it that event
organizer Pete Seeger was so upset by the act that he threatened to cut the
wires to the stage with an axe.
July 25, 1965 – Tom Clausell, 72, went missing after he
apparently walked off from his home in Monroeville, Alabama’s Clausell
community on this Sunday night. He was reported missing the following Monday
afternoon, and an intensive two-day search involving 40 volunteers, members of
the Monroe County Rescue Squad and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department
ensued. Sheriff Charlie Sizemore called off the search on Wednesday afternoon
after all possible leads had been exhausted.
July 25, 1966 – Marine Corps Maj. Clifton Bishop Andrews,
39, of Fulton in Clarke County, Ala. was killed in action in Quang Nam, Vietnam.
Born on April 21, 1927 in Fulton, Andrews was buried in Bassett Creek Cemetery
in Fulton.
July 25, 1968 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the Boy
Scouts of Evergreen’s Troop 40 racked up an impressive record at Camp Euchee
during the previous week. The 22 boys returned home on Sat., July 20, after a
highly productive camping experience. With 50 percent of the registered Scouts
attending, the Evergreen troop was the largest in the camp near DeFuniak
Springs, Fla. During the week, the Scouts earned a total of 22 merit badges and
11 of them won the coveted Mile Swim Award. In the Water Carnival, Evergreen
Scouts won first place in the canoe race, second place in relay swimming and
third place in the Tee Shirt Relay. They were second in overall points. Troop
40’s original skit was one of the three chosen for presentation at the Order of
the Arrow campfire on visitors’ night. In addition to these honors, the
Evergreen Scouts pulled off what has been called the greatest practical joke in
the history of Camp Euchee, “The One-Eyed Euchee.” Adult helpers in this
camping experience in addition to Scoutmaster Jimmy Murphy were Reuben Hyde,
Ralph Garrett, Bob Bozeman, Mitchell Stevens, Odeil Pugh, Edwin Brown, Emmitt
McKenzie, Mrs. Cecil Price, Fred Stevens and Dr. Cecil Price, who generously
gave the boys their pre-camp physical exams.
July 25, 1968 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
schedule for Conecuh County schools for the 1968-69 school year had been
approved by the Conecuh County Board of Education, according to Harvey G. Pate,
superintendent of education. The opening of the Fall Term was set for Fri.,
Aug. 30, with a half-day session scheduled. Prior to that, teachers were to
meet in their respective schools on Aug. 28 and 29.
July 25, 1968 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Private
Sterling W. Lett, 19, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Lett Jr. of Evergreen, had
been awarded a plaque for scoring highest in his basic combat training
battalion on the physical combat proficiency test at Fort Benning, Ga. Lett was
a 1967 graduate of Marshall High School. He had been assigned to Ft. Sill,
Okla. for advanced training. Lett, Co. E, 2nd Brigade, U.S. Training
Center, Infantry, earned the award by scoring the maximum 500 points on the
test. His perfect score admitted him to the Training Center’s exclusive “500
Club.”
July 25, 1968 - A $134,000 public fishing lake – Alabama’s
23rd such state-owned and managed facility to be built with funds of
the Game and Fish Division – opened on this Thursday morning at Natchez, and
speakers at an afternoon dedication ceremony agreed that the lake was built
because of people working together. “People working together and pulling together
have made this possible,” State Conservation Director Claude Kelley of
Montgomery told a crowd of some 80 to 100 persons at dedication ceremonies that
afternoon.
July 25, 1969
– During the Vietnam War, U.S. President Richard Nixon declared the Nixon Doctrine,
stating that the United States now expected its Asian allies to take care of
their own military defense.
July 25, 1970 – The Evergreen Jaycees were scheduled to hold
their annual horse show at the Lenox Horse Arena in Lenox, Ala. Lawrence
Gladwell was the show chairman, and James Ansley was secretary. Harold Ryals
was master of ceremonies, and Dr. Carl Wilson was the show veterinarian.
July 25, 1976 – The spacecraft Viking 1 took the famous “Face
on Mars” photo.
July 25, 1976
– Major League Baseball pitcher Javier Vázquez was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
He went on to play for the Montreal Expos, the New York Yankees, the Arizona
Diamondbacks, the Chicago White Sox, the Atlanta Braves and the Florida
Marlins.
July 25, 1977 – Jerry Willard Peacock, 18, of Evergreen drowned
in boating accident on the Alabama River, north of Haines Island in Monroe
County, Ala. He was buried in the King Cemetery at Flat Rock.
July 25, 1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds broke the
National League record for consecutive base hits as he got a hit in 38 straight
games.
July 25, 1987 - The Salt Lake City Trappers set a
professional baseball record as the team won its 29th game in a row.
July 25, 1990 - Rosanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San
Diego before a Padres baseball game. She was booed for her performance.
July 25, 1995 - Author Robert Gibbons died in Chambers, Ala.
July 25, 2000 – The Concorde, the world’s first supersonic
commercial passenger plane, crashed outside Paris, killing all 109 people
aboard and four people on the ground.
July 25, 2005 - The reward for Natalee Holloway's safe
return was increased from $200,000 to $1,000,000, with a $100,000 reward for
information leading to the location of her remains. Following Holloway's
disappearance, a reward of $50,000 had been established for her return. In
August 2005, the reward for information as to her remains was increased from
$100,000 to $250,000.
July 25, 2007 – Right-handed pitcher Christopher Scottie
Booker of Monroeville, Ala. made his final Major League Baseball appearance for
the Washington Nationals.
July 25, 2007 - "The Simpsons Movie" opened in the
U.S.
July 25, 2008 - In an interview with Fox News, former NASA
astronaut Edgar Mitchell said that unnamed sources, since deceased, at Roswell
confided to him that the Roswell incident did involve an alien craft. Mitchell
also claimed to have subsequently received confirmation from an unnamed
intelligence officer at the Pentagon.
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