March 1, 1498 - Vasco de Gama landed at what is now
Mozambique on his way to India.
March 1, 1510 – Portuguese solider and explorer Francisco de
Almeida died at Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope.
March 1, 1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York,
Maine), became the first incorporated city in the United States.
March 1, 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba were
brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning
what would become known as the Salem witch trials. Magistrates John Hathorne
and Jonathan Corwin interrogated the three women over the course of several
days. Tituba confessed to “afflicting” and confirmed that Good and Osborne were
her co-conspirators.
March 1, 1781 - The Articles of Confederation were finally
ratified after being signed by Congress and sent to the individual states for
ratification on Nov. 15, 1777, after 16 months of debate.
March 1, 1790 - The U.S. Congress authorized the first U.S.
census.
March 1, 1803 - Ohio became the 17th U.S. state.
March 1, 1817 – The Enabling Act was passed by Congress for
the admission of the western part of Mississippi as a state.
March 1, 1836 – Alexander B. Puryear became postmaster at
Burnt Corn, Ala.
March 1, 1836 – At the Alamo, a second cold front arrived. A
relief column from Gonzales arrived, responding to William Barrett Travis’ pleas
for help. The Gonzales Ranging Company safely entered the compound, increasing
the garrison’s strength by at least 32. Finding no sign of James W. Fannin’s
reinforcements, the detachment sent by Santa Anna returned.
March 1, 1845 - U.S. President John Tyler signed the
congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.
March 1, 1850 – The ill-fated Orline St. John prepared for
the upriver trip to Montgomery, a voyage that would depend heavily on passenger
revenue, freight and what merchant goods the stores of Claiborne, Cahawba,
Selma and Montgomery needed to replenish winter-depleted stocks. But the run
promised to be profitable, for with some 50 to 70 passengers, including a
number of women and children, the first-class cabins were filled, and the lower
deck was crowded. When everyone was on board – passengers and crew – the total
may have exceeded 120. (Rivers of History)
March 1, 1858 – The Eliza Battle riverboat was destroyed by
fire near present day Pennington, Ala. on the Tombigbee River.
March 1, 1861 - Texas was accepted as a state by the
provisional government of the Confederate States of America. Texas' secession
from the Union was not official until the next day.
March 1, 1861 – During the Civil
War, the government of the Confederate States of America assumed control of
military affairs at Charleston Harbor, S.C.
March 1, 1862 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought at Sikeston, Mo., and engagement occurred at
Pittsburg, Tennessee, involving the Union gunboats, USS Lexington and USS
Tyler.
March 1, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Bradyville and Woodbury in Tennessee; near
Fairfield and Swan Quarter in North Carolina; and at Bloomfield, Mo. which was
also captured on this day. A six-day Federal expedition from New Berne aboard
the US steamer, Escort, to Swan Quarter in North Carolina began.
March 1, 1864 – After getting captured by the Union at
Campbell’s Station, Noah Dallas Peacock (Lewis Lavon Peacock’s older brother)
was transferred from Louisville Military Prison to Fort Delaware.
March 1, 1864 - Union General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick arrived
at the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia. Colonel Ulrich Dahlgren was killed
while trying to rejoin Kilpatrick. (Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid)
March 1, 1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln nominated
Ulysses S. Grant for the newly revived rank of lieutenant general, carrying
Grant to the supreme command of Union forces. At the time, George Washington
was the only other man to have held that rank. Winfield Scott also attained the
title but by brevet only; he did not actually command with it.
March 1, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Buffalo City and Cedar Glade in Arkansas; near
Arcata, Calif. with Indians; at Cedar Creek and McGirt's Creek in Florida; and
at Ashland, Burton's Ford, near Stanardsville, near Atlee's, and on the Brook
Turnpike in Virginia. A three-day Federal operation along the Quachita River in
Louisiana began, with skirmishes at Trinity and Harrisonburg, Louisiana.
March 1, 1865 - General Thomas Rosser set fire to a bridge
along the middle fork of the Shenandoah River. General George Custer's troops
charged across the burning span and extinguished the fire before the bridge was
destroyed.
March 1, 1865 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Holly Creek, Ga.; at Poison Creek, Idaho; at
Wilson's Store, S.C.; at Philadelphia, Tenn.; and at Mount Crawford, Va.
March 1, 1867 – Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state, and
Lancaster, Nebraska was renamed Lincoln and became the state capital.
March 1, 1872 – President Ulysses S. Grant signed
legislation making Yellowstone National Park the first U.S. national park.
March 1, 1886 - Travis Harrison, a young man living near
Hatter’s Mill on Limestone, who had “been insane for several weeks, a
monomaniac on the subject of religion,” came to Monroeville on this Monday and
“while suffering from an attack of the disorder, he became very boisterous and
disagreeable, if not dangerous, to the citizens. It was deemed best by his
friends to confine him in jail until the necessary arrangements could be made
to send him to the asylum, and it was only by force that he was at last taken
to prison.”
March 1, 1887 - Mr. M.D. Perryman of Buena Vista visited The
Monroe Journal on this Tuesday. He had “been stricken with the Birmingham fever
too,” according to The Journal.
March 1, 1887 - The steamer W.H. Gardner, one of the largest
boats plying the waters of the Tombigbee, burned near Gainesville, in Sumter
County. The boat, together with about 500 bales of cotton, was a total loss,
although fully insured. About 20 lives were lost in the accident and among them
several ladies.
March 1, 1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gave the
first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
March 1, 1896 - W.S. Moore left Claiborne early on this
Sunday morning in route to Pleasant Hill where he attended religious services.
March 1, 1896 - Brother Crumpton filled his regular
appointment at the Baptist Church in Pineville on this Sunday.
March 1, 1898 - Alabama author Sara Haardt was born in
Montgomery, Ala.
March 1, 1899 – German SS officer Erich von dem
Bach-Zelewski was born in Lauenburg, Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia,
German Empire (now Lębork, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland).
March 1, 1905 – Jabez J. Parker, “one of the best known
attorneys” in Mobile, Ala., died suddenly around 9 p.m. at his home at 206 St.
Emmanuel St. in Mobile from heart failure.
March 1, 1906 – The Monroe Journal reported that Robert
Wallace, an “old and esteemed” Confederate veteran, was visiting friends at Mt.
Pleasant and Eliska.
March 1, 1911 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Mrs.
I.M. Sanders of Brooklyn the previous week sent the newspaper a “freak hen
egg.” On it were the distinct outlines of a hand with the index finger pointing
to the tip. The egg was perfect in shape.
March 1, 1911 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the many
friends of the Hon. S.P. Dunn sincerely sympathized with him in the death of
his venerable father, which occurred on Monday morning last at his home in Scotland.
Deceased was about 82 years of age.
March 1, 1914 – Baseball broadcaster Harry Caray was born in
St. Louis, Mo.
March 1, 1914 – Novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison was born
in Oklahoma City, Okla.
March 1, 1915 - The movie “Heart of Flame,” screenplay written by
Alabama author Marie Stanley under her maiden name Marie Layet, was released.
March 1, 1915 – The two-story schoolhouse at Buena Vista,
Ala. burned down. A one-room, one-teacher school house was built to replace it
in the same location during the summer of 1915.
March 1, 1915 – The Arcade Theatre in Evergreen, Ala. began
showing the five-part silent movie, “Such a Little Queen,” which starred Mary
Pickford. First released on Sept. 21, 1914, this romantic comedy is now
considered a lost film. Admission was 10 cents and 20 cents.
March 1, 1916 – R. Millsap Jr. left Evergreen, Ala. on this
afternoon on the No. 4 train, bound for St. Louis to buy a carload of mules and
horses, which he planned to sell in Evergreen. His stock was expected to reach
Evergreen around the first of the following week.
March 1, 1916 – Dr. Sanders of Troy, who was a candidate for
U.S. Congress, spoke at the Conecuh County Courthouse on this Wednesday night.
March 1, 1917 – Poet Robert Lowell was born in Boston, Mass.
March 1, 1917 - The text of the
so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary,
Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a
Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and
Germany, was published on the front pages of newspapers across America.
March 1, 1921 – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur
was born in New York City.
March 1, 1926 – Pro Football Hall of Famer Pete Rozelle was
born in South Gate, Calif.
March 1, 1927 – H.P. Lovecraft completed “The Case of
Charles Dexter Ward,” which was originally published in the May and July 1941
issues of Weird Tales.
March 1, 1928 – As best could be determined by the staff at
The Evergreen Courant, the 16-page edition published on this day was “the
largest regular edition of a newspaper ever published in Evergreen and Conecuh
County.” Special “booster” editions had been bigger, but never before had a
regular edition reached 16 pages.
March 1, 1928 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
members of the State Secondary Agricultural School’s boys basketball team were
“worried” and “very anxious” because “so far they have been unable to raise the
necessary funds” to pay for their trip to the state basketball tournament in
Tuscaloosa.
March 1, 1929 - Julian Brown, State Garden Specialist, was
scheduled to meet with the public on this Friday to help with spring garden
work. The meeting was scheduled to be held at Frisco City in the Masonic
building at 2 p.m.
March 1, 1934 – J.P. Matthews of Castleberry, Ala. qualified
as a candidate in the election for Conecuh County Tax Collector.
March 1, 1936 – The Hoover Dam was completed.
March 1-2, 1936 – “Mutiny on the Bounty” was scheduled to be
shown at the Evergreen (Ala.) Theatre on this Sunday and Monday. The movie
starred Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone.
March 1, 1937 - In Connecticut, the first permanent
automobile license plates were issued.
March 1, 1941 - FM Radio began in Nashville, Tenn. when
station W47NV began operations.
March 1, 1941 - Elmer Layden was named the first
Commissioner of the National Football League.
March 1, 1942 – William Edward Stinson was killed in service
in Vienna. He was a lieutenant in the Air Force and was a pilot in the 415th B.
Squadron.
March 1, 1943 – The old Finklea & Finklea store, which
was owned and operated by J. Foster Finklea and Charles Finklea from February
1926 to 1943, was sold to Bedsoles.
March 1, 1950 - Former Alabama governor Chauncey L. Sparks,
who was seeking the state’s chief executive position again in 1950, was in
Monroeville, Ala. on this Wednesday. Though he did not deliver any speeches in
Monroeville, the Eufaula lawyer was “shaking hands and mending political
fences” among Monroeville residents.
March 1-3, 1951 - The Class AA First District Basketball
Tournament was scheduled to be held in Evergreen High School’s Memorial Gym in
Evergreen, Ala. Fourteen teams were scheduled to compete for the district crown.
McGill Institute of Mobile, runner-up to Ensley in the 1950 state tournament,
was the defending champion.
March 1, 1952 – Physician and explorer Jerri Nielsen was
born in Salem, Ohio.
March 1-2, 1954 – What was billed as an “Unusual Exhibit”
was scheduled to be in Evergreen on this Monday and Tuesday - Marie O’Day’s
Palace Car. On exhibit in the car was some unusual attractions, including the
mummified body of Marie O’Day. The night club dancer and entertainer, according
to the sponsors of the exhibit, was fatally stabbed by her husband and thrown
into the Great Salt Lake inn Utah, where the body remained for 12 years. After
the body was recovered, the exhibitors said it was discovered that the hair was
still growing in an apparently normal manner. The dancer’s husband was said to
be still serving a life sentence in Utah for her murder.
March 1, 1954 - The local chapter of the Order of Eastern
Star planned to observe Master Mason night on this Monday night, beginning at
7:30 at the Masonic Hall. All Master Masons and their wives were invited to
attend and members of the O.E.S. could bring their husbands whether they were
Masons or not. A full night of entertainment had been provided including an old
time fried chicken supper. All Masons and Eastern Stars were urged to
participate.
March 1, 1961 – The Alabama River
reached flood stage at Miller’s Ferry, Ala., and Wilcox County residents began
preparing for the worst. Then things began to improve. The weather cleared and
turned warmer, almost spring-like, but the flood situation would soon take a
turn for the worst.
March 1, 1965 - Ambassador Maxwell
Taylor informed South Vietnamese Premier Phan Huy Quat that the United States
was preparing to send 3,500 U.S. Marines to Vietnam to protect the U.S. airbase
at Da Nang.
March 1, 1967 – In the opening game of the Region 1, Area 2
basketball tournament in Flomaton, Ala., Evergreen High School played Georgiana
at 7 p.m., and Monroeville played T.R. Miller at 8 p.m.
March 1, 1968 - Clark Clifford
replaced Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense.
March 1, 1969 - Mickey Mantle announced his retirement from
Major League Baseball.
March 1, 1969 - Jim Morrison of the Doors was arrested and
officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open
profanity and public drunkenness in Miami. Morrison was later sentenced.
Morrison died while the sentence was under appeal.
March 1, 1971 – A bomb exploded in the Capitol building in
Washington, D.C., causing an estimated $300,000 in damage but hurting no one.
March 1, 1973 - Pink Floyd released "Dark Side of the
Moon".
March 1, 1973 - A movie version of Alabama author Gay
Talese's book “Honor
Thy Father” was released.
March 1, 1973 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Myrtice
Morris of Brewton, Ala. had found a World War I citation issued to Charlie
Rutledge of Evergreen, Ala. by President Woodrow Wilson. She found the citation
while going through some old papers.
March 1, 1973 – The Evergreen Courant reported that John
Crum Sessions of Evergreen, Ala. had been selected from over 26,000 Future
Farmers of America in Alabama as Alabama’s “Future Farmer of the Year,” the
highest annual award presented to a member of the Alabama FFA Association. Crum
was to receive the award at the annual State FFA Convention on June 6, 1974 in
Montgomery, Ala.
March 1, 1973 – Evergreen High School’s boys basketball team
played Andalusia in the 3A state basketball tournament at 6 p.m. at the
University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. In 32 games, Evergreen was undefeated
on the floor, but they’d had to forfeit four games earlier in the season.
March 1, 1974 – During the Watergate Scandal, seven were
indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy
to obstruct justice.
March 1, 1974 – Former Auburn running back Stephen Davis was
born in Spartanburg, S.C. He went on to play for Spartanburg High School,
Auburn University, the Washington Redskins, the Carolina Panthers and the St.
Louis Rams.
March 1, 1977 – The City of Evergreen, Ala. began collecting
an additional one-cent sales tax within the city limits to pay back $233,000
the city borrowed to provide financial assistance to the Conecuh County
Hospital.
March 1, 1979 - The NCAA granted ESPN the exclusive rights
to telecast collegiate events.
March 1, 1980 – Evergreen High School’s varsity boys
basketball team won the region/district championship by beating Jackson, 67-65,
in East Brewton, Ala. Perona Rankins led Evergreen with 24 points; Sanford Moye
had 18; Philander Rodgers, nine; David Floyd, six; Horace Smith, five; Joe
Mitchell, three; and Johnny Allen, two. This win gave them a berth in the 3A
state tournament.
March 1, 1980 - William Ivey Cross Jr. of Frisco City, Ala.
began work on this Saturday as a Monroe County sheriff’s deputy. Cross replaced
Chuck Sadhue, who resigned in July. A 23-year-old Frisco City native, Cross was
formerly a Prichard policeman.
March 1, 1986 - Weather observer Earl Windham reported a
low of 25 degrees in Evergreen, Ala.
March 1, 1991 - "The Doors" movie debuted. Val
Kilmer played the role of Jim Morrison.
March 1, 1994 – Former Major League Baseball catcher Joe
Tipton passed away at the age of 72 in Birmingham, Ala. During his career, he
played for the Cleveland Indians, the Chicago White Sox, the Philadelphia
Athletics and the Washington Senators.
March 1, 2001 - Monroe County High School’s varsity baseball
team beat Bayside Academy, 6-1, on this Thursday in Bay Minette. MCHS
left-hander Jonathan Black pitched seven innings, struck out five batters and
didn’t allow any earned runs, running his overall pitching record to 2-1 on the
season. Other standout MCHS players in that game included Shane Brantley,
Travis Granberry, Derek Holley, Dustin Kilgore, Stephen Mattox, Brett Pate,
Michael Ramer and Taylor Ryland. Reid Utsey was MCHS’s head coach.
March 1-2, 2002 - Creation Science Evangelist Dr. Kent
Hovind was scheduled to visit New Life Christian School in Monroeville on these
two days. Hovind, who taught high school science for 15 years before becoming a
full-time creation science evangelist, at that time spoke to more than 700
times each year in public and private schools, churches, youth meetings and
more.
March 1, 2004 – Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum became President of
Iraq.
March 1, 2007 – Tornadoes broke out across the southern
United States, killing at least 20. Eight of the deaths were at Enterprise High
School in Enterprise, Ala.
March 1, 2007 – Millers Ferry in
Wilcox County, Ala. was struck by a deadly tornado. One person was killed, two
injured and over 70 houses were damaged and destroyed. The tornado caused well
over $2 million in damage.
March 1, 2011 - Kelly Goneke of Skinnerton and Ali Congdon
of Bermuda took home top honors at the 66th Annual Conecuh County
Steer and Heifer Show, which was held on this Monday at Breaking Ridge Farms in
Evergreen.
March 1, 2012 – The Heron Hill Cemetery in Clarke County was
added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register.
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