Sept. 14, 1741 – George Frideric Handel completed his
oratorio “Messiah.”
Sept. 14, 1752 – The British Empire adopted the Gregorian
calendar, skipping 11 days (the previous day was September 2).
Sept. 14, 1769 – German geographer and explorer Alexander von
Humboldt was born in Berlin.
Sept. 14, 1779 - American Colonel Daniel Brodhead concluded
an ambitious assault against the Seneca Indians throughout the Allegheny Valley
of Pennsylvania. Simultaneously, Major General John Sullivan had attacked the
Iroquois of New York.
Sept. 14, 1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was
acquitted of a misdemeanor charge. Two weeks earlier, Burr had been found
innocent of treason.
Sept. 14, 1814 – Francis Scott Key composed the lyrics to
“The Star-Spangled Banner.” He composed them while he watched, from the British
ship on which he had been detained, the U.S. flag survive a British attack.
Sept. 14, 1817 – Walter Taylor, one of the founders of the
United Methodist Church in Jackson and the man who built the Taylor House
around 1841, was born in Jackson, Ala. The Taylor House was moved to Leroy in
1985 and was restored into a modern bank building.
Sept. 14, 1836 – Two years after a stroke that left him an
invalid, Aaron Burr died at a boarding house in Port Richmond.
Sept. 14, 1838 - Noah Dallas Peacock, who was Lewis Lavon
Peacock’s older brother, was born in Dallas County, Ala.
Sept. 14, 1849 – Physiologist Ivan Pavlov was born in Ryazan
in central Russia.
Sept. 14, 1861 - Federals descended on the Pensacola, Fla.
navy yard, and the men of the USS Colorado destroyed the Confederate privateer,
Judah.
Sept. 14, 1861 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought at Old Randolph, Mo.
Sept. 14, 1861 - On those rare
occasions when Jefferson Davis didn’t have enough to worry about, along would
come a day like today, when he received a complaint from Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston concerning the issuance of ranks. Johnston had been a general in the
United States Army, after all. Now he was ranked behind Robert E. Lee and even
P. T. G. Beauregard, who had been a mere major when the war started. Davis and
Johnston had been friends at one time, but this perceived slight, which Davis
never felt able to change, was the beginning of a rift between the two.
Sept. 14, 1861 - Confederate troops under General Robert E.
Lee retreated from Cheat Mountain without a shot being fired. The campaign was
considered a fiasco and damaged Lee's reputation.
Sept. 14, 1862 – The North and the South clashed at the
Battle of South Mountain as General Robert E. Lee's exhausted Confederate
forces held off the pursuing Yankees by closing two passes through Maryland's
South Mountain, allowing Lee time to gather his forces further west along
Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg.
Sept. 14, 1862 - Confederate General Thomas
"Stonewall" Jackson rolled his artillery into place and began to
shell Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Sept. 14, 1862 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Henderson, Munfordville and Woodsonville in Kentucky;
at Burnsville, Miss.; at Petersville, Md.; and at Leesburg, Va.
Sept. 14, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought near La Fayette, Ga.; at Vidalia, La.; at Raccoon
Ford, Rapidan Station and near Leesburg, Va.; in Smyth County and along the
Blackwater River in Virginia; and at Cheat Mountain Pass, W.Va.
Sept. 14, 1863 - It was a very
dispirited group of United States Navy members who marched away from Rodney,
Miss. on this day. Not only was it bad enough to be marching rather than
sailing, but they were marching under guard, on their way to prison camp. The
problem had originated the day before aboard their vessel, the USS Rattler. A
group of 20, whether motivated by a need for spiritual solace or a simple
desire to break up a boring patrol, petitioned their captain to go ashore.
Acting Master Walter E.H. Fentress agreed to the request. It was a decision Fentress
came to regret when the men were captured by a Confederate cavalry patrol as
they were attending church.
Sept. 14, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Roger's Crossing, Ark.; at Weston, Ky.; at
Rosedale and Bullitt‘s Bayou in Louisiana; near Berryville, Va.; and near
Berryville, W.Va.
Sept. 14, 1864 – During the Civil
War, an eight-day Federal expedition began in Texas County, Mo.
Sept. 14, 1865 – A peace treaty was
signed at Fort Smith, Ark. with the following Indian Nation Tribes: Cherokee,
Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Osage, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee and Quapaw.
Sept. 14, 1869 – National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Kid
Nichols was born in Madison, Wisc. He went on to play for the Boston Beaneaters,
the St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Phillies and he also managed the
Cardinals for two seasons. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1949.
Sept. 14, 1879 – Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger,
who coined the term “birth control,” was born in Corning, N.Y.
Sept. 14, 1896 – The notorious outlaw Bart Thrasher was
killed by law enforcement officers near Calera, Ala.
Sept. 14, 1901 – U.S. President William McKinley died after
an assassination attempt on Sept. 6, and was succeeded by 42-year-old Vice
President Theodore Roosevelt.
Sept. 14, 1905 – The Monroe Journal reported that Prof. Weaver
of Lineville, Ala., who had been chosen principal of the Monroeville school,
had arrived in Monroeville a few days before to enter upon his duties at the
school.
Sept. 14, 1905 – John L. Betts, who was well known
throughout Monroe and Conecuh counties, died at his home in Burnt Corn, Ala.
after “an illness of several weeks with typhoid fever.” For a number of years,
he had been the partner of Jas. K. Kyser in the mercantile business.
Sept. 14, 1905 – Italian-French Freemason and explorer
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazz died at the age of 53 in Dakar of dysentery and fever
(amid rumours that he had been poisoned).
Sept. 14, 1912 – McKenzie, Ala. was officially incorporated
as a municipality.
Sept. 14, 1914 – A municipal primary election in Evergreen,
Ala. for the nomination of mayor and town councilmen was held. Those nominated
for office included W.B. Ivey for mayor and R.F. Croom, J.G. Lunday, A.H.
Mason, F.A. Pritchett, H.A. Shields for councilmen. Executive committee
nominees were H.W. Dunn, E.J. McCreary, E.E. Newton.
Sept. 14, 1914 – Monroe County High School and the
Monroeville, Ala. City Grammar School opened for the 1914-15 school year. Prof.
E.P. Yeldell was principal of the city school and other teachers there included
Edna Barge and Mrs. J.C. Hudson. The high school’s faulty included Prof. L.O.
Kyzar, Miss Chapman of Pine Apple (art department) and Miss Janie Mae Eppes
(music department at high school and city school).
Sept. 14, 1916 - Christy Mathewson of the Cincinnati Reds
won his 373rd career game. It was the only victory he had earned for a team
other than the New York Giants during his 17-year career.
Sept. 14, 1916 – Drama critic Eric Bentley was born in
Bolton, Lancashire, England.
Sept. 14, 1916 – The Monroe Journal reported that D.A.
Ratcliffe was having a “neat dwelling” built in the eastern part of
Monroeville.
Sept. 14, 1916 – The Monroe Journal reported that Mrs. Frank
Emmons would resume her kindergarten work the first week in October.
Sept. 14, 1916 - Italian troops during World War I launched
a short, concentrated attack on Austro-Hungarian positions on the Italian
Front, near the Isonzo River.
Sept. 14, 1931 – Novelist and playwright Ivan Klima was born
in Prague.
Sept. 14, 1934 – American essayist Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
was born in Queens, N.Y.
Sept. 14, 1936 – The Ritz Theater in Brewton, Ala. opened
its doors for business, and its first feature was “Yours for the Asking.”
Sept. 14, 1937 – Conecuh County, Ala. schools opened for the
1937-38 school year.
Sept. 14, 1939 – The Monroe Journal newspaper in
Monroeville, Ala. reported that Truman Capote, who had spent the summer in
Monroeville with Misses Nannie and Jennie Faulk and Mrs. W.J. Carter, had
returned to his home in New York on Fri., Sept. 8. At the beginning of the
week, he entered a Connecticut school.
Sept. 14, 1939 – The Evergreen Courant reported that during
the previous week the Bank of Evergreen had installed a new night depository
system. O.C. McGehee was the bank’s vice-president and cashier.
Sept. 14, 1940 – Congress passed the Selective Service Act,
the first peacetime draft in the United States, to raise an army of 900,000
men. All men between the ages of 21 and 35 were required to register.
Sept. 14, 1951 – Evergreen High School opened the 1951
football season with an 18-0 win over Millry in Evergreen, Ala.
Sept. 14, 1952 – The Starlington Stars baseball team won the
Conecuh Amateur League championship by beating the Centerville Rookies, 7-0, at
Brooks Stadium in Evergreen, Ala. In a game before the Starlington-Centerville
game, Shreve beat Castleberry, 5-4, to take home third place honors. Players
for the Stars included Dunk Stinson. Shreves player included William Huggins,
Duck Reeves, Oneal Kennedy, Hubbert Sanford and Hooks. Centerville players
included Joe McClain, John Cunningham, Homer Riley and Clint Ward. Players for
Castleberry included Hunter Skipper, William Andrews, Carroll Powell, Don Ivey
and manager Luther McDonald.
Sept. 14, 1954 – The Geo. W. Cole Wild Animal Circus was
scheduled to hold two performances, afternoon and evening, at the Evergreen,
Ala. airport. The circus featured “Goliath,” a monster hippopotamus from the
River Nile, weighing over four tons.
Sept. 14, 1960 - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC) was founded. The core members were Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, and Venezuela.
Sept. 14, 1961 – Conecuh County, Ala. public schools were
scheduled to open on this day after three days of in-service training for
teachers. Guy S. Kelly was Superintendent of Education.
Sept. 14, 1962 – Frisco City High School running back Ed
Brown led the Whippets with 103 yards rushing in a 26-0 win over T.R. Miller in
Frisco City, Ala.
Sept. 14, 1962 – Marengo County, Ala. native
Tommie Agee made his Major League debut with the Cleveland Indians. With
the Indians already behind 11-1 to the Minnesota Twins, Agee made his major
league debut at Metropolitan Stadium pinch-hitting for pitcher Bill Dailey in
the ninth inning.
Sept. 14, 1964 – The USS Alabama Battleship arrived in
Mobile Bay and Battleship Park opened on Jan. 9, 1965.
Sept. 14, 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen
Keller with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Sept. 14, 1964 - Writer John
Steinbeck was presented the U.S. Medal of Freedom. Steinbeck had already
received numerous other honors and awards for his writing, including the 1962
Nobel Prize and a 1939 Pulitzer Prize for “Grapes of Wrath.”
Sept. 14, 1964 – The administration of another round of oral
polio vaccines began in Monroe County, Ala.
Sept. 14, 1965 - ARVN paratroopers
and several U.S. advisers parachuted into the Ben Cat area, 20 miles north of
Saigon, the first major parachute assault of the war by the South Vietnamese.
Sept. 14, 1966 - U.S. II Field
Force initiated Operation Attleboro with an attack by the 196th Light Infantry
Brigade against Viet Cong forces near the Cambodian Border in War Zone C (near
Tay Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon in III Corps Tactical Zone).
Sept. 14, 1967 - The Lyeffion-Repton football game,
originally scheduled for Fri., Sept. 15, was rescheduled to be played on this
Thursday night in Repton with the kickoff set for 8 p.m. The game was moved up
to Thursday night because of the interest in county fans in that game and the
Evergreen-Monroeville game to be played on Fri., Sept. 15, in Evergreen.
Sept. 14, 1967 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Aggie
Capt. George Stinson was named Outstanding Player of the Week by the Evergreen
Jaycees for the Atmore-Evergreen game. According to Ken Gall, committee
chairman, this made Stinson eligible for the Player of the Year Award which was
to be made at the end of the season.
Sept. 14, 1968 - Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain won his
30th game of the season, becoming the first 30-game winner in the major leagues
since 1938. The Tigers scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to come from
behind in a 5-4 decision over the Oakland A’s.
Sept. 14, 1969 - Talladega Speedway opened with its first
running of the Talladega 500, which was won by Richard Brickhouse. Over 30 top
drivers boycotted the first run saying the track was unsafe at high speeds. The
facility cost $4 million dollars to build and attracted a crowd of 65,000 to
the first major race. In April 2000, a crowd of 180,000 watched Jeff Gordon win
the Diehard 500.
Sept. 14, 1972 – The Fort Mims Historic Site in Baldwin
County, Ala. was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Sept. 14, 1973 - With a strong assist from penalties and
injuries the Evergreen High School Aggies dropped their second straight game of
the 1973 season, this one by a score of 33-6 to the Monroe County High School
Tigers. The Brooks Stadium loss brought Evergreen’s record to 1-2. Halftime
found the Aggies who were minus regular quarterback Mike Faulkner, behind 14-0.
Darris Champion, a full back for the last two games, took the reins for the
evening but could not find paydirt until late in the game. With four seconds on
the clock, “Champ” sneaked over from the one for the hosts’ six points.
Champion and Kenny Scott picked up good yardage but Faulkner’s loss hampered
their air attack.
Sept. 14, 1973 – Pike Liberal Arts handed Sparta Academy
their first loss of the season on thi Friday night, beating Sparta 14-8 in
Evergreen. Sparta kicked off to open the game and Pike returned to its 38. The
Pike center went up to the ball while the rest of the team stood over near the
sidelines to his left. The Warriors lined up defensively in front of the ball
waiting for Pike to break its huddle. Suddenly the center scooped up the ball,
tossed it to James Flowers who ran unmolested for 62 yards and the score. Steve
Watkins went in for the two-pointer to make it 8-0 with the game only seconds
old. Sam Skipper scored Sparta’s only touchdown on a 12-yard run. Buddy Monroe
threw to Eddie Hooks for the two-point conversion. Other top plays in the game
included a 43-yard run by Sparta’s Bruce Hutcheson.
Sept. 14, 1974 - Alabama author and Poet Laureate Bert
Henderson died in Montgomery, Ala.
Sept. 14, 1976 – Former Alabama linebacker Trevis Smith was
born in Montgomery, Ala.
Sept. 14, 1981 - U.S. President Reagan signed the Yorktown
Bicentennial Proclamation marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of
Yorktown.
Sept. 14, 1981 - Pink Floyd's movie "The Wall"
began production.
Sept. 14, 1985 – Major League Baseball outfielder and
designated hitter Delmon Young was born in Montgomery, Ala. During his career,
he has played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the Minnesota Twins, the Detroit
Tigers, the Philadelphia Phillies, the Tampa Bay Rays and the Baltimore
Orioles.
Sept. 14, 1986 - Bob Brenley of the San Francisco Giants
tied a Major League Baseball record when he committed four errors in one
inning.
Sept. 14, 1987 - The Toronto Blue Jays set a club record
with 10 home runs when they defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 18-3.
Sept. 14, 1990 - Ken Griffey Sr. and Jr. of the Seattle
Mariners hit back-to-back home runs off California Angels pitcher Kirk
McCaskill in the first inning. The Angels won the game, 7-5.
Sept. 14, 1990 - Senior quarterback Carlos Booker bailed
Monroe County High out of a bad situation on this Friday night in Camden, Ala.
when he turned the corner on an option play and raced 40 yards for a touchdown
to lift MCHS past Wilcox Central High by a 16-14 score in a high school
football game.
Sept. 14, 1991 – NFL defensive back Dee Milliner was born in
Deatsville, Ala. He went on to place for Alabama, where he was an All-American
in 2012, and the New York Jets.
Sept. 14, 1994 - It was announced that the season was over
for the National Baseball League on the 34th day of the players strike. The
final days of the regular season were canceled. Baseball owners had voted 26-2
in favor of ending the season. The result was a year with no World Series for
the first time since 1904.
Sept. 14, 1995 - The Body Worlds exhibition debuted in
Japan. The museum display featured human remains, preserved in plastic via a
process called plastination. Body Worlds proved to be a huge hit and has gone
on to be featured in over 50 museums throughout the world. However, it has also
spawned numerous ethical debates as well as urban legends about the source of
the plastic encased corpses.
Sept. 14, 1999 - Leon Lett of the Dallas Cowboys was
suspended for seven games as punishment for a fifth violation of the NFL's
substance abuse policy.
Sept. 14, 2001 - The FBI released the names of the 19
suspected hijackers that had taken part in the September 11 terror attacks on
the U.S.
Sept. 14, 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush toured the
ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed rescue workers through a
bullhorn. The buildings had collapsed on September 11 after a terrorist attack.
Sept. 14, 2001 – Historic National Prayer Service was held
at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A
similar service was held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever
held in the nation's capital.
Sept. 14, 2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush said the
United States was willing to take Iraq on alone if the U.N. failed to
"show some backbone."
Sept. 14, 2003 - Jamal Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens set an
NFL record for yards gained in a single-game when he gained 295 yards rushing.
The Ravens beat the Cleveland Browns, 33-13.
Sept. 14, 2003 - Vinny Testaverde of the New York Jets
became the ninth player in NFL history to pass for over 40,000 yards.
Sept. 14, 2004 – First baseman Andy Phillips of
Tuscaloosa, Ala. made his Major League debut, taking the field for
the first time for the New York Yankees. In his first Major League at bat,
he hit a home run over the Green Monster in Fenway Park off Terry Adams of the
Boston Red Sox.
Sept. 14, 2005 - All restrictions on the four Natalee
Holloway disappearance suspects were removed by the Combined Appeals Court of
the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.
Sept. 14, 2013 – Evergreen, Alabama’s Justin Nared compiled
173 passing yards and scored rushing touchdown to lead the Tuskegee University
Golden Tigers to a 19-13 win over Albany State University Saturday in Albany,
Ga. Nared completed 11 of 19 passes for 173 yards and scored on a one-yard run
that tied the game, 13-13, with 4:14 to go in the third quarter.
Sept. 14, 2014 – As of 7:45 a.m., the 1,000,000th active
geocache in the U.S. was published on Geocaching.com, a site that launched in
2000 with just 75 geocaches. The 1,000,000th U.S. geocache was called
Daddy’s Fishing Hole and is located near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
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