March 5, 1046 – Naser Khosrow began the seven-year Middle
Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book “Safarnama.”
March 5, 1496 – King Henry VII of England issued letters
patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands.
March 5, 1512 – Gerardus Mercator, who developed the world
mapping technique still used today, was born in Rupelmonde, Flanders (now
Belgium).
March 5, 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”
was added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first
published.
March 5, 1658 – French explorer and politician Antoine de la
Mothe Cadillac, who also served as the third Colonial Governor of Louisiana,
was born in Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave,
France.
March 5, 1750 – The first Shakespearean play was presented
in America when “Richard
III” was performed by the actors of Walter Murray and William
Kean's troupe from Philadelphia.
March 5, 1766 – Brilliant Spanish scientist and explorer Antonio
de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrived in New Orleans,
trying to take control of the formerly French territory of Louisiana.
March 5, 1770 – In what is now referred to as the “Boston
Massacre,” five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, were fatally shot by
British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the
American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence)
five years later. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter.
March 5, 1809 – Confederate soldier
Matthew Anderson was born. He served as a private in the Monroe County Militia
Home Guard after being recruited for service as a farrier for Co. K of the 7th
Alabama Cavalry. Anderson was an example of a man too old for combat duty yet
having skills useful to the Confederate army. He died on Dec. 23, 1893 and was
buried in Middleton Cemetery in Monroe County, Ala.
March 5, 1829 – Col. Samuel Adams
was born in Abbeville County, South Carolina. He graduated from the University
of South Carolina in 1850 and moved to Butler County, Ala. in 1851. He worked
as a teacher and lawyer in Conecuh and Butler counties and served as a state
representative from 1857 to 1861. He became a 2nd Lt. with Co. G in
the 9th Alabama on July 19, 1861 and 1st Lt. on Sept. 6,
1861. He was promoted to Colonel in the 33rd Alabama when it was
organized on April 23, 1862. He was wounded in action at Perryville while
leading a brigade. He was killed in action on July 21, 1864 by a sharpshooter
in a fight at Bald Hill near Atlanta. He is buried in Pioneer Cemetery in
Greenville.
March 5, 1836 - Santa Anna
announced to his officers that he planned to attack the Alamo in the morning
and ordered them to prepare their troops for assault. Although evidence is
lacking, tradition holds that Travis gathered his command together one final
time to offer them the chance to leave. According to one account, Travis drew a
line in the sand and asked the garrison to make a decision to stay or
leave. Only one man, Moses Rose, chose to leave.
March 5, 1836 – Samuel Colt patented the first
production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
March 5, 1845 - The U.S. Congress appropriated $30,000 to
ship camels to the western United States.
March 5, 1850 – Early on this afternoon, the ill-fated
Orline St. John docked at Bridgeport, on the river north of Camden, where it
took on “an unusually large quantity of wood – right, light wood.” Then the
pilot turned her bow back into the current, and the captain went up to his
cabin to take a nap before they reached the next stop. By now “a very strong
wind [was] blowing,” and combined with the current, it made progress upriver
even more difficult.”
March 5, 1860 – President Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural
address was received in Evergreen, Ala. through the Western Union Telegraph Co.
A.D. McInis was the telegraph operator.
March 5, 1861 – During the Civil
War, all Federal troops in the Department of Texas were instructed to report to
the Gulf Coast for departure to New York.
March 5, 1862 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought near Occoquan and at Bunker Hill, which is north of
Winchester, Va. The customs of the Shenandoah Valley are not those of most
places. For one thing, to go “up” the valley means to go south. That is what
Gen. Nathaniel Banks was doing this day, in charge of a Federal force headed
from Harpers Ferry, Va., towards Winchester. The intended target: Gen. Thomas
Jonathan Jackson. Since the battle of First Manassas last May, he had become
known as “Stonewall.” General Banks had achieved his military career by joining
the Republican Party at a very early stage of its development and winning the
governor’s race in Massachusetts in 1858, while Stonewall had learned his
skills at West Point. The differences in talent as well as training would show
in this campaign.
March 5, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Fort Smith, Ark.; at Madison, Ark.; and in the
vicinity of Franklin, Tenn. A nine-day Federal operation from Helena, Ark., up
the Little and St. Francis Rivers, began. A 10-day Federal operation in Newton
and Jasper Counties in Missouri began.
March 5, 1864 – Elijah Byrd Jenkins began serving aboard the
CSS Selma and was aboard when it was captured at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Jenkins was born in Wilcox County, Ala. on Dec. 13, 1842 to Thomas Jenkins and
wife. At the age of 19, enlisted on Nov. 1, 1862 in Montgomery as a private
with Co. K 1st Ala. Artillery. He re-enlisted on Feb. 11, 1863 at Port Hudson,
La. with Co. K, 1st Ala. Artillery before joining the Confederate Navy and
transferring to serve aboard the CSS Selma on March 5, 1864. He served on that
ship until it was captured at the Battle of Mobile Bay. He was then imprisoned
at Ship Island, Miss. for the rest of the war. He filed for his Confederate
pension in Wilcox County on June 28, 1902. Elijah Jenkins is buried at New Hope
Cemetery at Dottelle, Ala.
March 5, 1864 - General John C. Breckinridge took control of
Confederate forces in the Appalachian Mountains of western Virginia. The native
Kentuckian was a former U.S. senator, U.S. vice president and runner-up to Abraham
Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election. Breckinridge took over the obscure
Western Department of Virginia, where he managed forces until he was elevated
to the Confederacy’s secretary of war in the closing weeks of the Civil War.
March 5, 1864 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought at Leet’s Tannery, Ga.; and at Chapel Hill and
Panther Springs in Tennessee. A Confederate attack on Federal forces occupying
Yazoo City, Miss. was repelled. Confederates raided Cherrystone Point, Va.
March 5, 1865 – During the Civil
War, a seven-day Federal operation between Waynesville and Lebanon in Missouri
began, and a skirmish was fought at Cheraw, S.C. A three-day Federal operation
between Fortress Monroe and Fredericksburg in Virginia began.
March 5, 1870 – Novelist Frank Norris was born Benjamin
Franklin Norris in Chicago. His most popular novel, “McTeague,” was published
in 1899 when he was just 29 years old.
March 5, 1871 - Rosa Luxemburg, the leader of a revolutionary faction of the German socialist party during World War I, was born in Zamos, Poland, an area that at the time was under Russian control.
March 5, 1873 – Norwegian skier and explorer Olav Bjaaland was born in Telemark, Norway.
March 5, 1886 – The Monroe Journal reported that Dr. W.A.
Patrick, who had recently graduated from the dental department of the
Vanderbilt University, had returned home.
March 5, 1886 – The Monroe Journal reprinted an article from
the Pineapple Gazette that gave the “particulars of a shocking affair, in which
a little girl was burned to death and an old lady probably fatally injured” in
the Simpkinsville community of Monroe County, eight miles south of Pineapple.
Mrs. Mary Byrd and her 12-year-old granddaughter, Jessie, a daughter of Mr.
Allen Byrd, were burning brush, when “by some means the child’s clothing caught
fire. Mrs. Byrd attempted to extinguish the flames and her own clothing caught.
The little girl broke loose, ran a short distance and crouched down, where her
father, who had been attracted by the screams, found her with her clothing
burned off and her flesh literally baked. She lingered in untold agony until
nine o’clock that night (Friday, Feb. 19) when death released her from her
horrible sufferings. Mrs. Byrd is terribly burned about the body and arms and
her fingernails scorched off. There is a possibility, however, of her
recovering, though she will be permanently crippled.”
March 5, 1891 – The issue of The Monroe Journal on this date
was the first issue of the newspaper printed on a power press. Prior to this,
the paper was printed on a hand press, a slow and laborious process.
March 5, 1896 – The Monroe Journal reported that Miss Ellen
Harrengton had returned from a pleasant visit to friends at Manistee.
March 5, 1896 - The Monroe Journal noted that the health of
Capt. John DeLoach continued to improve.
March 5, 1896 – The Monroe Journal reported, in news from
Claiborne, that the old town was on a boom now, the streets were full of wagons
from morning until night, hauling commercial fertilizer.
March 5, 1896 – The Monroe Journal reported that former
Monroe County Sheriff J.S. Harrengton of Monroeville was in Pineville for
several days during this week.
March 5, 1902 - W. D. Harrigan Sr. of Rhinelander, Wisc. and
Fredrick Herrick of Lac Du Flambeau, Wisc. purchased the Scotch Lumber Company
in Fulton, Ala.
March 5, 1915 – Former Confederate soldier John A. McCants
died and was buried at Bells Landing Presbyterian Cemetery at Tinela, Ala. Born
on June 27, 1842, he served as a private with the Monroe Guards and enlisted on
March 26, 1861 at Pineville in Monroe County. He was promoted to corporal and
was present at all musters between May 13, 1861 and Dec. 31, 1861. He was
wounded at Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863 and furloughed home for 30 days. He
was admitted into Selma General Hospital while on furlough and remained on
furlough until July 30, 1863. He was listed as a prisoner of war on May 5,
1864.
March 5, 1915 – The Arcade Theatre in Evergreen, Ala. began
showing the “best episodes of the interesting series” of the “Million Dollar
Mystery.”
March 5, 1915 – A fiddler’s convention was scheduled to be
held at 8 p.m. at the Conecuh County, Ala. courthouse for the benefit of the
Evergreen City School. Admission was 25 cents and 15 cents, and a prize was
offered for the best fiddler.
March 5, 1916 - The first movie version of Alabama author
Mary Johnston's book “To Have and To Hold” was released.
March 5, 1916 – The Rev. S.P. Lindsey “occupied the pulpit”
at the Brooklyn Church in Conecuh County, Ala. on this Sunday morning and “was
met by a good congregation.”
March 5, 1933 – The
Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections,
enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slight majority in the
Reichstag. Within three weeks, the Nazi-dominated Reichstag passed the Enabling
Act, which gave Hitler dictatorial powers and ended the Weimar Republic in
Germany.
March 5, 1936 – The Evergreen Courant reported that lodge
clerk J.R. Simmons recently announced that the regular meeting dates of Greening
Lodge No. 53, A.F.&A.M., had been changed from the second and fourth
Thursday nights to the second and fourth Friday nights of each month.
March 5, 1936 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Gaston
Durham and Curt DuBose were in the county jail, charged with petty larceny, in
connection with the theft of an axe, truck binders and other county property
from the bridge being constructed across Bull Slough, near Paul. Other arrests
in connection with thefts at the bridge were contemplated.
March 5, 1936 – The Monroe Journal reported that work on the
new Methodist parsonage at Uriah continued to progress. The foundation and
framing was to be laid within the next few days. The parsonage was of interest
to the people of Uriah and neighboring towns not only from a spiritual point of
view, but from the stand point of business as well. The building was expected
to enhance the beauty of all Uriah, and those owning real estate in and around
Uriah expected to realize an increase in the value of such real estate.
March 5, 1938 – NFL defensive back and actor Fred Williamson
was born in Gary, Indiana. He would go on to play for Northwestern University,
the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Oakland Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs.
March 5, 1939 – NFL center Wayne Frazier born in Evergreen,
Ala. He would go on to play for Auburn, the San Diego Chargers, the Houston
Oilers, the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs. He started for the Chiefs
in the first Super Bowl.
March 5, 1943 - Following a lingering illness, Claude Eugene
Brantley, age 57, died at a Montgomery hospital on this Friday night. Brantley
was born at Burnt Corn on Jan. 1, 1886, the son of the late H.H. Brantley and
Mae Salter Brantley. He spent his early life at Burnt Corn, later moving to
Evergreen where he was for many years engaged in business. He moved to
Montgomery about six years before his death. He was widely known throughout the
Evergreen area and had many devoted friends who, with a large number of
relatives, were saddened at his passing.
March 5, 1948 – In an incident attributed to the Bermuda
Triangle, Al Snyder, a well-known jockey, and several of his friends departed
Miami in a cabin cruiser to go fishing at Sandy Key. The yacht was later found,
but the occupants had disappeared.
March 5, 1948 – Novelist Leslie Marmon Silko was born in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is best known for her 1977 novel, “Ceremony.”
March 5, 1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ban on
segregation in public schools.
March 5, 1956 – Clarence Horn of Garland was killed
instantly, and Mrs. A.T. Reid Jr., an “English war bride,” was fatally injured
in a head-on collision on state highway 114, five miles west of McKenzie, on
this Monday. Reid died of injuries on Tues., March 6. A.T. Reid Jr., K.W.
Calloway and Miss Johnnie Middleton, all of Garland, were injured in the
accident.
March 5, 1964 - The Joint Chiefs of
Staff ordered a U.S. Air Force air commando training advisory team to Thailand
to train Lao pilots in counterinsurgency tactics.
March 5, 1966 - Marvin Miller was elected executive director
of the Major League Baseball Players Association. During his tenure, Miller
made baseball the first sport to institute collective bargaining and salary
arbitration agreements, and oversaw the advent of free agency after a century-long
struggle by players to sell their services on a free market.
March 5, 1966 – Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver
Michael Irvin was born in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He would go on to play for the
University of Miami and the Dallas Cowboys. He was inducted into the Hall of
Fame in 2007.
March 5, 1971 - The U.S. 11th
Armored Cavalry Regiment, less its 2nd Squadron, withdrew from Vietnam.
March 5, 1971 - Premier Chou En-lai
of the People’s Republic of China visited Hanoi, and after lengthy consultations,
Chou and North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong issued a joint communique on
March 10, which vowed continued Chinese support for the North Vietnamese
struggle against the United States.
March 5, 1975 – The Homebrew Computer Club first met and it
turned out to be an enormously influential hobby club: its existence made
possible the personal computer.
March 5, 1976 – Major League Baseball first baseman Paul
Konerko was born in Providence, R.I. He would go on to play for the Los Angeles
Dodgers, the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox.
March 5, 1978 – Weather reporter Earl Windham reported a low
of 21 degrees in Evergreen, Ala.
March 5, 1982 – Sparta Academy hosted a seven-team spring
football jamboree at Stuart-McGehee Field in Evergreen, Ala.
March 5, 1982 - The Russian space probe, Venera 14, after a
four-month journey, plunged its descent vehicle into the Venusian atmosphere,
sending back images of the planet's surface.
March 5, 1990 - The television program “A Son's Promise,”
teleplay by Bill Stratton and Alabama author Robert Inman, was broadcast.
March 5, 1992 - Kellie Coker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stan
Coker of Evergreen, Ala., was named Junior Miss Alpha 1992 at the annual Miss
Alpha Pageant held at Sparta Academy. Kellie was the granddaughter of Mrs.
Sarah Coker of Evergreen and was in the seventh grade.
March 5, 2006 – 78th Academy Awards were held at the Kodak
Theatre in Los Angeles. “Capote” was nominated for Best Picture. Philip Seymour
Hoffman (Truman Capote) won for Best Actor, and Catherine Keener (Harper Lee)
was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
March 5, 2013
– The first winter ascent of Broad Peak was achieved by Maciej Berbeka, Adam
Bielecki, Artur Małek and Tomasz Kowalski.
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