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Nov. 7, 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite
with a known date of impact, struck the earth around noon in a wheat field
outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
Nov. 7, 1665 - "The London Gazette" was first
published.
Nov. 7, 1728 – British explorer and navigator Captain James
Cook was born in Marton (in present-day Middlesbrough) Yorkshire, England.
Nov. 7, 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony
of Virginia, started the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by
issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offered freedom to slaves
who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the
British.
Nov. 7, 1775 - The Continental Congress added a mandate for
the death penalty as punishment for acts of espionage to the "article of
war."
Nov. 7, 1776 - Congress chose Richard Bache to succeed his
father-in-law, Benjamin Franklin, as postmaster general. Franklin had sailed for
France on behalf of the Continental Congress the previous month.
Nov. 7, 1805 – Lewis and Clark first saw the Pacific Ocean
on their great overland expedition that began at St. Louis the year before.
They were near the mouth of the Columbia River, not far from today’s town of
Astoria, Oregon. They built Fort Clatsop there, a log stockade 50 feet square,
and spent the winter in it, before heading back to St. Louis.
Nov. 7, 1811 – The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought near
present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
Nov. 7, 1814 – General Andrew Jackson, with about 4,000 men,
marched across the strip of country lying between the Cut Off of the Alabama
and Pensacola and captured Pensacola, Fla.
Nov. 7, 1832 - William Stephen
Wiggins was born. He took command Co. F of the 36th Ala. Regiment after the
death of Capt. David Kelly and led the 36th until the end of the war. His unit
was a part of the first brigade (Clayton's) to break the Federal line at
Chickamauga and the defenders of the line at New Hope Church. He was noted for
his bravery in the battle of Atlanta at the railroad cut at present day Grant
Park. He died on Oct. 27, 1918 and was buried at Hamilton Hill Cemetery in
Hixon, Ala.
Nov. 7, 1837 - In Alton, Ill., abolitionist printer Elijah
P. Lovejoy was shot to death by a mob while trying to protect his printing shop
from a third destruction.
Nov. 7, 1861 – At the Battle of Belmont, Mo., Union General
Ulysses S. Grant overran a Confederate camp, but was forced to retreat when
Confederate reinforcements arrived. Although Grant claimed victory, the Union
gained no ground and left the Confederates in firm control of that section of
the Mississippi. Grant lost 120 dead and 487 wounded or captured, while the
Confederates lost 105 dead and 536 wounded or captured.
Nov. 7, 1861 – During the Civil War, the bombardment and
subsequent capture began of Forts Beauregard (at Big Point) and Walker (at
Hilton Head,) at Port Royale, S.C.
Nov. 7, 1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln replaced
General George B. McClellan with General Ambrose E. Burnside as the new
Commander of the Army of the Potomac.
Nov. 7, 1862
– During the Civil War, skirmishes were fought in Douglas County, Mo.; at
Rappahannock Station, Va.; at Rhea's Mill and Boonsboro in Arkansas; at
Spaulding's Farm, Ga.; at Clark's Mill, Mo.; and at Tyree Springs, White Range
and Gallatin in Tennessee.
Nov. 7, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Frog Bayou, Ark. and near Muddy Creek, W.Va.
Lewisburg, W.Va. was also captured on this day.
Nov. 7, 1863 – During the Civil
War, the Battle of Rappahannock Station was fought in Virginia. Confederate
forces were about a division, while the Union used more men. There were about
2,500 casualties, mainly Confederate prisoners. On Nov. 7, the Union army
forced passage of the Rappahannock River at two places. A dusk attack overran
the Confederate bridgehead at Rappahannock Station, capturing more than 1,600
men of Jubal Early’s Division. Fighting at Kelly’s Ford was less severe with
about 430 casualties, but the Confederate retreat allowed the Federals across
in force.
Nov. 7, 1864 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought near Edenburg, Va.
Nov. 7, 1867 – Noble Prize-winning
physicist and chemist Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland.
Nov. 7, 1874 – A cartoon
by Thomas Nast in this day’s edition of Harper's
Weekly is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol
for the United States Republican Party.
Nov. 7, 1885 – A coroner’s
inquest was held, but no facts were developed directly implicating anyone in
the “horrible murder” of James A. Stewart the day before in the Ireland
community, located north of Burnt Corn on the Monroe-Conecuh county line.
Stewart’s remains were transported to Montgomery and buried in the “Catholic
cemetery” there.
Nov. 7, 1888 - After a month of silence, “Jack the Ripper”
took his fifth and last victim, Irish-born Mary Kelly, an occasional
prostitute. Of all his victims' corpses, Kelly's was the most hideously
mutilated.
Nov. 7, 1895 - Fire destroyed every business and house
located on the east side of the railroad in Evergreen.
Nov. 7, 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were
reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
Nov. 7, 1913 – Algerian-born French writer Albert Camus was
born in Mondovi. He won the Noble Prize in Literature in 1957 and is best
remembered for his novels “The Stranger” (1942) and “The Plague” (1947).
Nov. 7, 1914 - While World War I raged in Europe, the first
issue of a new weekly magazine, The
New Republic, was published in the United States.
Nov. 7, 1915 – Charles “Boat Poppa” Johnson of Franklin,
Ala., pilot of the steamboat “Nettie Quill,” died and was buried beside his
wife “Fannie Bett” in the River Ridge Cemetery at Franklin.
Nov. 7, 1917 – Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution began and
ushered in the first Marxist government in the world, eventually leading to the
formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — the USSR.
Nov. 7, 1917 – During World War I, the Third Battle of Gaza
ended. British forces captured Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
Nov. 7, 1922 – National Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder
Sam Thompson died at the age of 62 in Detroit, Mich. During his career, he
played for the Detroit Wolverines, the Philadelphia Quakers/Phillies and the
Detroit Tigers. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974.
Nov. 7, 1929 – Danish author and poet Benny Andersen was
born in Vangede, a suburb of Copenhagen.
Nov. 7, 1934 - Joseph Hill, 18, was indicted by a Conecuh
County grand jury on this Wednesday on a charge of having placed a cross tie in
front of a train two miles south of Evergreen. His trial has been set for
Tues., Nov. 13, but it was understood that he planned to enter a plea of
guilty. The alleged offense occurred in December 1933, and railroad men said
the act probably would have wrecked southbound Passenger Train No. 5 had not
the cross tie been of soft wood. It was ground to splinters underneath the
wheels of the train and caused no damage.
Nov. 7, 1943 - Canadian songstress and painter Joni Mitchell was born Roberta Joan
Anderson in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, to a grocer and a schoolteacher.
Nov. 7, 1943 – Heavy rains hits Monroe County on this
Sunday, flooding Monroeville from one side to the other with “more water than
at any time since the 1929 flood.”
Nov. 7, 1943 – Literary critic Stephen Greenblatt was born
in Boston.
Nov. 7, 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for a
record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
Nov. 7, 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German
World War I veteran, was hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his
ring.
Nov. 7, 1952 – On homecoming night in Evergreen, Evergreen
High School beat Repton High School, 46-0.
Nov. 7, 1956 – It was on this night that “Mon-Ka of Mars”
(via contactee Dick Miller) requested certain radio frequencies be cleared at
10:30 p.m. so a message to the people of Los Angeles could be sent from their
craft 10,000 miles above. A tongue-in-cheek AP story publicized the event and
two radio stations went off the air as a gimmick. Alas, Mon-Ka was a no-show.
Nov. 7, 1958 – Evergreen High School, under head coach
Wendell Hart and assistant coach Jeff Moorer, beat T.R. Miller, 18-13, in
Brewton. The probable starting line-up for Evergreen left end, Leon McKenzie;
left tackle, Paul Hardin; left guard, Byron Warren; center, Paul Pace; right
guard, George Bolton; right tackle, Wayne Peacock; right end, Wayne Stinson;
quarterback, Jimmy Bell or Billy Melton; left halfback James Reaves or Ceylon
Strong; right halfback, Bobby Smith or Jimmy Eddins; fullback Robbie Boykin. Bob
Riley was Miller’s head coach.
Nov. 7, 1963 - Elston Howard, of the New York Yankees,
became the first black player to be named the American League's Most Valuable
Player.
Nov. 7, 1964 - The latest U.S.
intelligence analysis claimed that Communist forces in South Vietnam now
included about 30,000 professional full-time soldiers, many of whom were North
Vietnamese. Before this, it was largely reported that the war was merely an
internal insurgent movement in South Vietnam opposed to the government in Saigon.
This information discredited that theory and indicated that the situation
involves North and South Vietnam.
Nov. 7, 1965 - Bart Starr of the Green Bay Packers was
sacked 11 times by the Detroit Lions.
Nov. 7, 1966 - Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara faced a storm of student protest when he visited Harvard
University to address a small group of students.
Nov. 7, 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public
Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Nov. 7, 1972 - Richard Nixon
defeated Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota) and was re-elected President
of the United States.
Nov. 7, 1973 - New Jersey became the first U.S. state to
permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
Nov. 7, 1973 – Gaineswood in Demopolis, Ala. was designated
a National Historic Landmark.
Nov. 7, 1983 - Ali Haji-Sheikh of the New York Giants kicked
his second 56-yard field goal.
Nov. 7, 1986 – Conecuh County Commission Chairman David
Lamar Burt of Fairnelson, Ala. passed away at the age of 61. He was elected
chairman in 1976 and was re-elected in 1980 and 1984. He was an active member
of the Purnell Methodist Church, a graduate of Lyeffion High School and U.S.
Navy veteran of World War II. Born on Feb. 28, 1925, he was buried in the
Purnell Methodist Church Cemetery at Fairnelson.
Nov. 7, 1986 – In the opening round of the Class 1A state
playoffs, Repton High School beat Coffeeville High School, 41-8, in Repton.
John Thompson scored three touchdowns, Carl Staton scored one and Allen Nettles
caught a touchdown pass.
Nov. 7, 1989 - Richard Ramirez, convicted of California's
"Night Stalker" killings, was sentenced to death.
Nov. 7, 1990 - Mike Potter, administrator of Monroe County
Hospital in Monroeville, Ala., announced that he was resigning effective Dec. 7
to take a job in Ennis, Texas.
Nov. 7, 1994
– WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.
Nov. 7, 1997 – In “V for Vendetta,” Prothero was
“interrogated” by V and subsequently driven mad. Without Prothero, the Voice of
Fate was irrevocably changed.
Nov. 7, 1998 – In “V for Vendetta,” Creedy subtly inquired
if Dominic would join his side in the impending coup. Dominic subtly refused.
Dominic discovered that V had access to Fate. Finch traveled to Larkhill and
ingested LSD. The experience gave him an ephiphany. Evey asked V what his will
was, and V showed her.
Nov. 7, 2003 – Monroe County High School beat Greene County
High School, 42-6, in Eutaw, Ala. Senior tailback Kevin Adair led MCHS with 128
yards on 21 carries, running for three touchdowns and passing for another. He
also kicked five extra points. Other standout MCHS players in that game
included Taylor Anderson, Justin Finklea, Tyler Hunt, Nick Madison, Jerrell,
McMillan, Reco Nettles, Tyler Richeson and Sheldon Wilson.
Nov. 7, 2004 – During the Iraq War, the interim government
of Iraq called for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces
stormed the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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