April 29, 1429 – Joan of Arc led French forces into the
English-held city of Orleans.
April 29, 1770 – James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay,
Australia.
April 29, 1776 - General George Washington ordered Brigadier
General Nathanael Greene to take command of Long Island and set up defensive
positions against a possible British attack on New York City.
April 29, 1776 – English explorer and author Edward Wortley
Montagu passed away in Padua, Italy at the age of 62.
April 29, 1781 – During the Revolutionary War, British and
French ships clashed in the Battle of Fort Royal, off the coast of Martinique.
April 29–30, 1825 – During his tour of the United States,
the Marquis de Lafayette visited St. Louis, Missouri.
April 29, 1852 - The first edition of Peter Roget's
Thesaurus was published.
April 29, 1859 – Property in Monroeville, Ala. for a new
jail was purchased from John B. Welch and his wife, Rosanne, for $50.
April 29, 1861 – During the Civil War, Maryland's House of
Delegates voted not to secede from the Union.
April 29, 1862 – During the Civil War, New Orleans fell to
Union forces under Admiral David Farragut. Union troops officially took
possession of the city after the surrender of Fort Jackson and Fort. St.
Phillip, completing the occupation that had begun four days earlier on April
25. The capture of this vital southern city was a huge blow to the Confederacy.
April 29, 1862 – During the Civil
War, Federal forces began their advance from Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. toward
Corinth, Miss.
April 29, 1862 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought in the vicinity of Batchelder’s Creek, N.C.; at
White Point, S.C.; and at Cumberland Gap, near Bethel Station, Purdy and
Monterey Tenn.
April 29, 1863 - Union Colonel Abel Streight's command was
attacked by troops under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford
Forrest. On this day, the Union had set a trap and held the Confederates under
fire and wounded Captain William Forrest (Nathan Bedford's brother).
April 29, 1863 – Poet C.P. Cavafy was born in Alexandria,
Egypt.
April 29, 1863 - American newspaper magnate and newspaper
publisher William Randolph Hearst was born in San Francisco, Calif.
April 29, 1863 - Two days of
Federal operations in Opelousas, Chicotville and Bayou Boeuf in Louisiana
began.
April 29, 1863 – A Federal
demonstration took place against Haynes and Drumgould’s Bluff, Miss. to
distract Confederates as a portion of Grant’s force relocated itself further
south on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River. The bombardment of the
Grand Gulf, Miss. began. A three-day Federal reconnaissance from La Grange,
Tenn. into northern Mississippi began. Four days of Federal operations in the
Murfreesborough, Tenn. area began.
April 29, 1863 – Union General
George Stoneman began his cavalry raid against Lee's and the Confederate's
lines of communication (lasted until May 7).
April 29, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Kellysville, Brandy Station and Stevensburg in Virginia;
at Brookhaven, Miss., with Grierson’s raiders; at Castor River, Mo.; on the
Chapel Hill Pike in Tennessee; at Crook’s Run and Germanna Ford, and White Oak
Run, all near Fredericksburg, in Virginia; and at Fairmont, West Virginia.
April 29, 1864 – Theta Xi fraternity was founded at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the
Civil War.
April 29, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought along the Ouachita River and another near Saline
Bottom in Arkansas; at Grand Ecore, La.; in the Sni Hills of Missouri; and in
Berry County, Tenn.
April 29, 1864 – A Federal
operation between Ringgold toward Tunnel Hill, in Georgia, began. A two-day
Federal operation between Newport Barracks and Swansborough in North Carolina
began.
April 29, 1864 - Admiral Porter’s fleet
seemed doomed. Trapped on the Red River, they heard on this day that their
nemesis, Confederate General Richard Taylor, was proposing to take one of their
own disabled boats and refloat it to use it as a fireboat to cause havoc and
destruction to the Union fleet. Lt. Col. Joseph Bailey came up with a deranged
plan. Among their troops were many Midwestern and Maine men with lumberjack
experience. Bailey proposed to have them build a dam across the rapids. This
would raise the water level under the ships enough than when the dam was blown,
they would all get downstream. For lack of alternative, Porter and Banks, head
of the land forces, agreed to let him try it.
April 29, 1865 – Confederate General Richard Taylor
negotiated a ceasefire with Union General Edward Canby at Magee Farm in Kushla,
near Mobile. These were the preliminary arrangements for the surrender of the
last Confederate States Army east of the Mississippi River. Taylor's forces,
comprising 47,000 Confederate troops serving in Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, were the last remaining Confederate force east of the Mississippi
River.
April 29, 1865 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought at Eddyville, Ky.
April 28, 1885 – John Folk, who was about 80 years old, died
of “dropsy” at his home about eight miles south of Monroeville, Ala.
April 29, 1895 – Annie “Anna” Newberry, 79, passed away at
the home of A.C. Lambert at Manistee, Ala. She was buried in the Polar Bridge
Cemetery at Manistee.
April 29, 1896 - Mrs. C.L. Johnson returned home to the
River Ridge community on the steamer Nettie Quill on this Wednesday night after
a visit to friends and relatives in Mobile, Ala.
April 29, 1896 - At the residence of Jeff Sessions in Wilcox
County, R.C. Abernathy of Tinela married Miss Alabama Perkins of Marion, Ala.,
Rev. N.B. Keahey, officiating, assisted by Rev. G.W. Jones.
April 29, 1899 – Bandleader, pianist and composer Edward
Kennedy, better known as Duke Ellington, was born in Washington, D.C.
April 29, 1903 – The Evergreen Courant reported that H.E.
Shaver had picked up in Evergreen, Ala. wire and insulators to be used in the
construction of a telephone line from Mt. Union and Herbert to Evergreen, Ala.,
which was due to be complete that week. Shaver noted that the line would likely
be extended to Brooklyn, a distance of about 11 miles.
April 29, 1903 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Charles
J. Crawford and William H. Crawford had passed the bar exam.
April 29-30, 1905 – The Rev. E.C. Clayton filled his regular
appointment at Pleasant Hill church on this Saturday and Sunday at Manistee,
Ala.
April 29, 1906 – The Rev. A.J. Lambert was scheduled to
preach at Zion church (at Axle in Monroe County, Ala.) on this fifth Sunday at
11 a.m.
April 29, 1906 - Capt. A.H. Johnson of Franklin passed
through Monroeville on this Sunday on his return from the reunion of
Confederate Veterans at New Orleans.
April 29, 1906 - A large crowd attended Sunday school at Mt.
Pleasant on this Sunday.
April 29, 1909 – The Conecuh Record reported that “one
automobile may now be seen on the streets of Evergreen, Ala., being owned by
the Hon. Jas. F. Jones. No doubt many more will be seen here before many
weeks.” On May 5, Jones and Henry Hawthorne would travel to Monroeville in
Jones’ new automobile.
April 29, 1909 – Before a large crowd, Evergreen beat
Andalusia in baseball, 4-3, in 10 innings.
April 29, 1912 – Carnelias Alexander Thames, 82, of
Brooklyn, Ala. passed away at his family home in Brooklyn. He was buried in the
Brooklyn Baptist Church Cemetery on the following day with full Masonic honors.
He was born on Nov. 20, 1830.
April 29, 1913 – Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback, who was
living in Hoboken, New Jersey, patented the modern zipper under the name
“Hookless No. 2.”
April 29, 1915 – C. Bennett, who lived on the Greenville
Road beyond the convict camp, had his home and its contents destroyed by fire
on this Thursday night.
April 29, 1916
– During World War I, the UK's 6th Indian Division surrendered to Ottoman
Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces
up to that point.
April 29, 1917 - Ulmer Spinks was shot and killed by his
father-in-law, Mr. George Milsted, at Camp No. 3, in the vicinity of
Vredenburgh, on this Sunday afternoon.
April 29, 1918 – Pro Football Hall of Fame coach George
Allen was born in Nelson County, Va. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in
2002.
April 29, 1928 - A movie version of Alabama author Jack
Bethea's book “Honor Bound” was
released.
April 29, 1931 – Editor Robert Gottlieb was born in New York
City.
April 29, 1933 – Singer and songwriter Willie Nelson was
born in the small farming community of Abbott, Texas.
April 29, 1934 – National Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop
Luis Aparicio was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He went on to play for the
Chicago White Sox, the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Red Sox. He was
inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1934.
April 29, 1941 - The Boston Bees agreed to change their name
to the Braves.
April 29, 1944 - Elbert Nettles shot Clifton Avery at a “honky
tonk” in the southern part of Monroeville on this Saturday night. The shooting was
said to have taken place following an argument. Avery was in the hospital as of
May 4, 1944 and according to reports, had a fair chance to recover, according
to The Monroe Journal.
April 29, 1945 – During World War II, Adolf Hitler married
his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designated Admiral Karl
Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun committed suicide the following
day.
April 29, 1945
– German SS officer Matthias Kleinheisterkamp committed suicide at the age of
51 at Halbe, Province of Brandenburg, Free State of Prussia, Nazi Germany.
April 29, 1945 – American soldiers liberated 30,000
prisoners from a concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
April 29, 1946 – “The Portable Faulkner” by William Faulkner
was published by Viking.
April 29, 1947 – Former Evergreen, Ala. mayor and state
senator Lamar Kelly, 50, of Evergreen was named chairman of the State Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board. Kelly, who helped write the legislation that created
the ABC board, succeeded Bryce C. Davis of Cullman, who resigned on April 17.
Kelly was a state senator from the 17th Senatorial District (Butler, Conecuh
and Covington Counties) from 1935 through 1939. Prior to that, he served as
mayor of Evergreen for nine years beginning in 1926.
April 29, 1948 – Charles “Bubba” Harris, a native
of Sulligent, Ala., made his Major League debut as a pitcher for
the Philadelphia Athletics.
April 29, 1948 – The Evergreen Courant reported that pitcher
James Carpenter and R.E. Ivey, both of Evergreen, Ala., played leading parts in
a recent, 8-2 Sunflower Trojan baseball victory over East Mississippi.
Carpenter struck out 12, and Ivey hit a crucial double. Grissett and Tolbert
also hit doubles in the game.
April 29, 1948 – The Evergreen Courant reported that during
a recent meeting, the newly organized Evergreen (Ala.) Chapter of the Order of
Demolay elected its first slate of officers. Those officers included George Hendrix, Master Councilor;
John Ellis, Senior Councilor; Joe Andrews, Junior Councilorr; Curtis Walker,
Scribe; Wayne Cook, Treasurer; T.Y. Henderson, Senior Deacon; Dudley Bartlett,
Junior Deacon; Bert Gaston, Sentinel; Jeff Moorer, Senior Steward; P.J. Godwin,
Junior Steward; R.J. Sanford, Junior Marshal; Willie Cobb, Junior Almoner,
Junior Ward and Chaplain; Shelton Craig, Standard Bearer; Gwynn Daniels,
Orator; Wayne Congleton, First Preceptor; Sidney Williamson, Second Preceptor;
Billie Langham, Third Preceptor; Georgie Brown, Fourth Preceptor.
April 29, 1950 - Funeral services for Staff Sgt. Charles
James McDonald, who was killed when his plane was shot down over Austria on
Feb. 13, 1945, were to be held from the home of his mother, Mrs. T.R. McDonald
of Monroeville, on this Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. Sgt. McDonald, a
graduate of Monroe County High School, enlisted in the Air Corps on Jan. 21,
1943. A gunner on a fighter plane, he was killed when the plane in which he was
riding was shot down.
April 29, 1952 - Controversial speaker and author David Icke
was born in Leicester,
Leicestershire, England.
April 29, 1953 - The first experimental 3D-TV broadcast took
place in the US with a showing of an episode of “Space Patrol.”
April 29, 1954 – Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was born in
Brooklyn, N.Y.
April 29, 1957 - The Boston Red Sox traded Mobile, Alabama’s
Milt Bolling along with Russ Kemmerer and Faye Throneberry to the Washington
Senators for Bob Chakales and Dean Stone. Milt was immediately put to work with
the Senators, starting at shortstop occasionally in May and June before
becoming their everyday starter from July through the end of the season.
April 29, 1957 – Conecuh County, Alabama’s annual Fat Calf
Show was scheduled to be held with 26 4H Club and FFA members participating.
April 29, 1960 - Hueytown, in Jefferson County, Ala., was
officially incorporated. White settlers first came to the area around 1816. The
local economy remained largely agricultural until the nearby city of Birmingham
began to expand as the iron and steel industry burgeoned. Referred to initially
as Huey and by around 1914 as Hueytown, the area remained one of the largest
unincorporated communities in Alabama for many years.
April 29, 1963 – A meeting of the Evergreen Junior Baseball
League was scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Conecuh County Courthouse in Evergreen,
Ala. The league’s officers included Earl Windham, President; Ed Smith, Vice
President; Leslie Huggins, Secretary-Treasurer; Ray Owens, Player Manager; Joe
Sasser, Chief Scorer; and Henry Allman, Chief Umpire.
April 29, 1966 – Frisco City High School’s baseball team
improved to 4-4 on the season with a 10-1 win over Beatrice on this Friday. Jim
Kelly was the winning pitcher for FCHS, giving up just two hits. Fred Till was
the losing pitcher for Beatrice.
April 29, 1967 - Alabama author Mary Elizabeth Vroman died
in Brooklyn, N.Y.
April 29, 1968
– The controversial musical, “Hair”,
a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s,
opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its songs becoming anthems of
the anti-Vietnam War movement.
April 29, 1970
– During the Vietnam War, United States and South Vietnamese forces, including
some 50,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and 30,000 U.S. troops, invaded Cambodia
to hunt Viet Cong.
April 29, 1971 - U.S. casualty
figures for April 18 to April 24 were released. The 45 killed during that time
brought total U.S. losses for the Vietnam War to 45,019 since 1961. These
figures made Southeast Asia fourth in total losses sustained by the U.S. during
a war, topped only by the number of losses incurred during the Civil War, World
War I and World War II.
April 29, 1974 – During the Watergate scandal, United States
President Richard Nixon announced the release of edited transcripts of White
House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
April 29, 1974 – Dr. Cecil Eugene Price, 51, died from “as
the result of massive heart failure” at his office. He practiced medicine in
Conecuh County, Ala. for over a quarter of a century and at one time was the
only physician in practice in the county. He was buried in the Magnolia Cemetery
in Evergreen.
April 29, 1974 – Birmingham, Ala. native Lee May became the
17th player in Major League Baseball history to hit two home runs in one
inning.
April 29, 1975
– During the Vietnam War’s Operation Frequent Wind, the U.S. began to evacuate
U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. It was
the largest helicopter evacuation on record, and U.S. involvement in the war
came to an end.
April 29, 1975 – During the Vietnam War, the North
Vietnamese Army completed its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held
Trường Sa Islands.
April 29, 1976 – Sparta Academy’s baseball team used its
only two hits to good advantage in downing Fort Dale, 4-1, on this Thursday.
Ronnie Pugh was the winning pitcher while the Peacock brothers, Jerry and
Terry, got Sparta’s hits.
April 29, 1976 - Dianne Williams lacked only a few feet
of getting her car clear of the railroad tracks before a train hit the rear of
it on this Thursday in Evergreen. She was crossing from East Front to West Front
at the bridge crossing when the traffic light changed red. A pickup truck was
stopped in front her. She blew her horn and finally drove into the truck, but
still lacked those few inches. Fortunately, she was not injured.
April 29, 1979 - The final episode of "Battlestar
Galactica" was aired on ABC.
April 29, 1981 - Steve Carlton, of the Philadelphia
Phillies, became the first left-handed pitcher in the major leagues to get
3,000 career strikeouts.
April 29, 1985 - Billy Martin was brought back, for the
fourth time, to the position of manager for the New York Yankees.
April 29, 1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City
of Los Angeles Public Library damaged or destroyed 400,000 books and other
items.
April 29, 1986 - Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox set a
Major League Baseball record by striking out 20 Seattle Mariner batters.
April 29, 1988 - The Baltimore Orioles set a new Major
League Baseball record by losing their first 21 games of the season.
April 29, 1994 – Episode No. 22 of “The X-Files” – entitled
“Born Again” – aired for the first time.
April 29, 2002 - Darryl Strawberry was sentenced to 18
months in prison for violating his probation on a 1999 conviction on drug and
solicitation of prostitution charges.
April 29, 2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testified
before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
April 29, 2014 – Former Beatrice, Ala. mayor Alan Bishop, a
native of Haleyville, passed away at his home at the age of 57. Born on June
22, 1956, he was buried in the Pineville Baptist Cemetery.
April 29, 2015
– A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox set
the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in
attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due
to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
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