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May 23, 1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of
murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd was hanged in London, England.
May 23, 1777 - At Sag Harbor, New York, Connecticut raiders
and local men under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs
captured several British vessels and burned Redcoat supplies. This was the only
successful Patriot attack on Long Island between the British takeover in 1776
and their departure in 1783.
May 23, 1786 – Hungarian explorer Maurice, Count de
Benyovszky was shot in the chest during a skirmish with French forces at
Madagascar and he died from the fatal wound at the age of 39.
May 23, 1788 – South Carolina ratified the United States
Constitution as the eighth American state.
May 23, 1790 – French admiral and explorer Jules Dumont
d'Urville was born at Condé-sur-Noireau in Lower Normandy.
May 23, 1810 – Writer, literary critic and woman of letters
Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridgeport, Mass.
May 23, 1811 - The Mobile Centinel, Alabama's first
newspaper, produced its first issue.
May 23, 1841 – Early Alabama soldier and pioneer Samuel Dale
died in Daleville, Miss. at the age of 69 (possibly 68). Born in 1772 in
Rockbridge County, Va., he was buried in the Samuel Dale Memorial Park Cemetery
in Daleville, Lauderdale County, Miss. (Some sources say he died on May 24.)
May 23, 1846 – As part of the Mexican–American War, President
Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declared war on the United States.
May 23, 1855 – English lieutenant and explorer Charles
Robert Malden passed away at the age of 57 at Brighton, East Sussex, England.
May 23, 1861 - Virginia ratified
the Secessionist Convention referendum by a vote of 132,201 to 37,451.
May 23, 1861 - John Floyd was
commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army.
May 23, 1861 - Thomas Jackson
struck the B&O Railroad, capturing 56 locomotives.
May 23, 1862 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at New Bridge, Va. and at Buckton Station, Va. An
affair also occurred at Fort Graig, New Mexico, and an action took place at
Lewisburg, West Virginia.
May 23, 1862 – During the Civil
War, in the Battle of Front Royal, Va., the forces of Confederate General
Thomas Jackson soundly defeated the 800 Union soldiers under Col. John Kenly,
capturing many of them. The victory put Jackson’s 16,000 men in a position to
cut Gen. Nathaniel Banks’ army off from reinforcements from Winchester. It also
put them in a great position to attack Washington, DC, at least in the opinion
of many nervous residents of the capital. This battle also featured opposing
units from the same state--Maryland had representatives on both sides.
May 23, 1863 – During the Civil
War, the Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. entered its fifth day.
May 23, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Antioch Church, Warrenton and Barber's Cross
Roads, Va.
May 23, 1864 - Fighting began on the North Anna River around
Hanover Junction, Virginia. Union General Ulysses S. Grant moved his troops
south the next day after a second unsuccessful attempt to dislodge the Rebels.
May 23, 1864 – During the Civil
War, combat took place at Jericho Bridge, Va., and a skirmish was fought at
Stilesborough, Ga.
May 23, 1865 – During the Civil
War, the Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac took place.
May 23, 1867 – Assisted by his friends, Dallas County, Ala.
banker John McGee Parkman, 29, attempted to escape from the former Castle
Morgan prison in Cahaba, but he was killed. Born on Jan. 12, 1838, he was
buried at Live Oak Cemetery in Selma.
May 23, 1876 - Boston’s Joe Borden pitched the very first
no-hitter in the history of the National League.
May 23, 1879 - The first state-sponsored
veterinary school was established at Iowa State College.
May 23, 1888 – National Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder
Zack Wheat was born in Hamilton, Mo. He went on to play for the Brooklyn
Superbas/Dodgers/Robins and the Philadelphia Athletics. He was inducted into
the Hall of Fame in 1959.
May 23, 1895 – The Monroe Journal reported that Dr. Jas. M.
McDaniel, a full graduate of the State Medical College in Mobile, had begun
practicing medicine in Monroeville, Ala.
May 23, 1896 - On this night, there was to be, at the city
hall at Perdue Hill, Ala., a contest for a medal to be awarded to the best
orator among the advanced male students of Perdue Hill High School. On the
following Friday night (May 29), the annual exhibition, consisting of charades,
drills, etc., was to take place. J.N. Ivey was the school’s principal.
May 23, 1896 - John Hassell returned to Monroeville, Ala. on
this Saturday from a trip to Tuscaloosa, having carried two patients to the
asylum.
May 23, 1896
– Russian-German SS officer Felix Steiner was born in Stallupönen, Province of
East Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Nesterov, Kaliningrad
Oblast, Russian Federation).
May 23, 1900 – Civil War hero Sgt. William Harvey Carney was
awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner
in 1863. He was the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor.
May 23-Aug. 31, 1905 – All stores in Monroeville, Ala. began
closing for the summer months at 7 p.m.
May 23, 1907 – Atmore, Ala. became an incorporated
municipality.
May 23, 1910 – Margaret Wise Brown, the author of the
classic children’s book “Goodnight Moon,” was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
May 23, 1911 – The New York Public Library was officially
dedicated.
May 23, 1914 – Wealthy Brewton, Ala. resident Thomas Richard
Miller, president of the T.R. Miller Mill Co. and Citizens Bank, died at the
age of 74 in Atlanta around 3:15 p.m. Born in Brooklyn on April 7, 1843, he was
buried in the Union Cemetery in Brewton.
May 23, 1915 - Italy declared war
on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I on the side of the Allies—Britain,
France and Russia, opening up a new front in World War I, stretching 600
kilometers—most of them mountainous—along Italy’s border with Austria-Hungary.
May 23, 1917 - Alabama author Celestine Sibley was born in
Holley, Fla.
May 23, 1917 – Mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton
Lorenz was born in West Hartford, Conn. He is known for his studies in chaos
theory and for coining the term, “the butterfly effect.”
May 23, 1917 - The Evergreen Courant reported that at a
recent meeting of the trustees of the Evergreen City School Miss Ethel King was
elected principal of the school, with Misses Willie Cunningham, Sue Stallworth
and Mae Simmons as assistants.
May 23, 1917 – The Evergreen Courant reported, under the
headline “To Call Alabama Guardsmen Aug. 5,” that all National Guard
organizations would be called into Federal service between July 15 and Aug. 5.
Governors had been authorized to recruit all organizations to war strength.
Arrangements for formally incorporating the guard into the armies of the United
States, terminating for the war period, their status as militia or state
troops, were understood to be based upon the possibility of supplying full war
equipment for the troops. It was understood also that the 16 divisional
cantonment camps for the guard would be in the southeastern, southern and
western departments. Dates upon which various state units were to be moved to
the big camps for state mobilization points, would depend upon completion of
the quarters and supply system at the cantonment camps.
May 23, 1917 - The sixth annual Institute of Wilcox County
Teachers met in the auditorium of the Wilcox County High School building at
Camden on this Wednesday and was in continuous session until Friday afternoon,
May 25. The proceedings were conducted by Prof. Ledbetter of the State Dept. of
Education, assisted by Miss Gray of Birmingham, who was also in the State Dept.
of Education. There were 61 teachers present.
May 23, 1917 - Mr. J.C. Ballard of Pine Hill, who had been
very sick for some time, died on this Wednesday, and was buried at Enon on
Thurs., June 24. The W.O.W. camp of which he was a member buried him with all
honors due a brother woodman.
May 23, 1922 - "Daylight Saving Time" was debated
in the first debate ever to be heard on radio in Washington, D.C.
May 23, 1926 - Hack Wilson became the first player to hit a
home run off the Wrigley Field scoreboard.
May 23, 1932 – U.S. Senator Hugo L. Black, a native of
Ashland, spoke in Monroeville, Ala.
May 23, 1932 - Alabama sportswriter Bozeman Bulger died in
Lynbrook, N.Y.
May 23, 1934 - In Bienville Parish, La., Bonnie Parker and
Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were
riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
May 23, 1935 – Evergreen’s baseball team was scheduled to
play Andalusia on this Thursday in Andalusia, Ala.
May 23, 1935 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Mrs. Ely
Bradley and her 12-yer-old son, Ely Bradley Jr. remained in the Conecuh County
Jail on charges stemming from the killing of Hobson Mason on May 10 at the
Bradley home on the Lawrence farm on the “old Castleberry road.” Mason
supposedly attempted to force his way inside the home, and when Mrs. Bradley
fired a warning shot at him, her son fired a shot that killed him.
May 23, 1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sank off the coast of New
Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian
technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect were
rescued the following day.
May 23, 1945 – During World War II, Heinrich Himmler, the
head of the Schutzstaffel, committed suicide while in Allied custody.
May 23, 1947 – Poet Jane Kenyon was born in Ann Arbor, Mich.
May 23, 1948 - Joe DiMaggio hit three consecutive home runs.
May 23, 1948 – On this Sunday at 11 a.m., baccalaureate
services were scheduled to be held in the Evergreen High School auditorium.
May 23, 1955 - American journalist
Dorothy Kilgallen reported from London, claiming "the scientific and
aeronautic authorities of Great Britain, after having examined the remains of a
mysterious airship of conventional form - have come to the conclusion that
these strange flying objects do not represent optical illusions, nor are they
Soviet inventions, but that we have to deal with objects that really fly and
that originate from some other planet."
May 23, 1957 – A T-28B trainer plane flown by Navy Ensign
Richard Frank Polich of Chicago, Ill. crashed and exploded at night on the farm
of M.M. Cardwell, about five miles west of Evergreen, Ala. on the Loree Road.
Polich, who was stationed at Whiting Field near Milton, Fla., parachuted to
safety after the plane’s engine caught fire in midair. This was the first crash
of a Navy plane in the county since the Navy Air Training Command at Pensacola
began using Middleton Field as a training site.
May 23, 1958 – Graduation exercises were scheduled to be
held at Evergreen High School on this Friday at 8 p.m. in Memorial Gymnasium.
C.W. Claybrook was principal.
May 23, 1962 - Joe Pepitone of the New York Yankees set a
Major League Baseball record by hitting two home runs in one inning.
May 23, 1963 - NBC purchased the 1963 AFL championship game
TV rights for $926,000.
May 23, 1963 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Alva Nann
Cary had been named valedictorian of Conecuh County High School with an average
of 94 for the past four years. Judy Worrells had been named salutatorian of
Conecuh County High School with an average of 93 for the past four years.
May 23, 1963 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
Evergreen Aggies had selected the winners of the baseball team’s three awards
for the 1963 season, Coach Henry Allmon announced that week. Selected as the team’s
Most Valuable Player was Jimmy Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Weaver. The
first member of the Evergreen Baseball Hall of Fame was Donnie Jones, son of
Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Jones. The winner of the Batting Championship Trophy was Sid
Lambert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Lambert, with an average of .370. Lambert
barely edged out Weaver, who hit .367. Weaver and Jones were chosen by a vote
by the team. Jones was a senior and both Lambert and Weaver were juniors.
May 23, 1963 – The Monroe Journal reported that Eddie
Phillippi, an eight-year-old resident of Peterman, Ala. had caught a three and
one-fourth pound eel. The eel measured 31 inches and was caught at Hardee’s
pond near Beatrice, Ala.
May 23, 1967 – A public controversy
over the M-16, the basic combat rifle in Vietnam, began after Representative
James J. Howard (D-New Jersey) read a letter to the House of Representatives in
which a Marine in Vietnam claimed that almost all Americans killed in the
battle for Hill 881 died as a result of their new M-16 rifles jamming.
May 23, 1969 – The Vela Hotel 6911 satellite was launched,
over 10 years before it detected the mysterious “double-flash” event, known as
the Vela Incident, on Sept. 22, 1979. At the time of the event, the satellite
was more than two years beyond its so-called “design lifetime.”
May 23, 1970 – Army SFC Cecil Clayton Schofield, 37, of
Andalusia, Ala. was killed in action in a mortar attack on an artillery
position south of Saigon in Vietnam. He began his tour of duty in Vietnam on
April 28, 1970 and was killed less than a month later. He was a mortarman in
Co. E, 1st Bn., 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne
Division (Airmobile). Born on April 29, 1933, he was buried in Paxton Cemetery
in Walton County, Fla. He attended Paxton High School and joined the Army in
1952 with plans to retire in 1972. He had already served two tours of duty in
Germany and four in Korea.
May 23, 1971 - North Vietnamese
demolition experts infiltrated the major U.S. air base at Cam Ranh Bay, blowing
up six tanks of aviation fuel, which resulted in the loss of about 1.5 million
gallons. U.S. commander Creighton Abrams criticized the inadequate security.
May 23, 1972 - Heavy U.S. air
attacks that began with an order by President Richard Nixon on May 8 were
widened to include more industrial and non-military sites.
May 23, 1974 – The Evergreen Courant reported that
Evergreen’s Don Owens helped lead the Saints of Lurleen B. Wallace Jr. College
to the 1974 Southern Division Championship. A freshman majoring in physical
education, Owens was a graduate of Sparta Academy. He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Owens.
May 23, 1974 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Bob
Davis, head basketball coach at Auburn University, had his audience laughing
and then gave them some things to think about as he delivered the featured
address at Sparta Academy’s Athletic Awards Banquet. Headmaster Richard Brown
was responsible for getting Brown to speak. New Quarterback Club President
Eldon Scott also presented an award of appreciation to outgoing President Bill
Johnson at the banquet.
May 23, 1977 - Alabama author Florence Glass Palmer died in
Pensacola, Fla.
May 23, 1978 - The American League approved the transfer of
Jean Yawkey of the Boston Red Sox for $15 million.
May 23, 1980 – Texas Rangers pitcher Fergie Jenkins claimed
win No. 250 out of 284 in his career, a two-hit defeat of the Athletics in
Texas. The only run he allowed in the 3-1 victory was unearned, as he struck
out eight and was supported by Al Oliver’s two-run single.
May 23, 1984 - The Detroit Tigers won their 16th straight
road game, tying the American League record.
May 23, 1984 – “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” was
first released in theaters.
May 23, 1987 - A television version of Alabama author Paul
Hemphill's book “Long
Gone” was broadcast.
May 23, 1988 – Old Scotland Presbyterian Church in Monroe
County, Ala. was added to Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.
May 23, 1991 - The New York Yankees played their fourth
straight extra inning game.
May 23, 1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City was demolished.
May 23, 1999 - Gerry Bloch, at age 81, became the oldest
climber to scale El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He broke his own record
that he set in 1986 when he was 68 years old.
May 23, 2005 - Evergreen’s Miss Troy University, Avington
Hart, was to be honored with a “Miss Alabama Send-Off Party” on this Monday
from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Bolden-Cardwell Building at the Evergreen First
United Methodist Church. Avie’s Miss Alabama Platform was “Volunteering” and
she played to recognize members of the STARS Program (Students Taking a
Responsible Stand). Avie was the daughter of Bill and Ruth Hart.
May 23, 2008 – New York Met Marlon
Anderson of Montgomery, Ala. seriously injured his hamstring in a game against
the Colorado Rockies on a groundout.
May 23, 2008 - Nearly 120 Conecuh County seniors were
scheduled to receive their high school diplomas on this Friday night at
Hillcrest High School and Sparta Academy in Evergreen, Ala. Hillcrest’s
graduation exercises were to be held at Brooks Memorial Stadium in Evergreen,
and Sparta’s graduation exercises were to be held at Richard Brown Gymnasium in
Evergreen. Claude B. Nielsen was to be the guest speaker at Sparta. Both
ceremonies were set to start at 7 p.m. During the commencement ceremonies both
schools planned to honor their respective valedictorians and salutatorians. Pia
Marie A. Cumagun was the valedictorian at Sparta, and Jonarius Antoine
Stallworth was the valedictorian at Hillcrest. Hayden Armuelles was the
salutatorian at Sparta, and Willie Keontra McCaskill was the salutatorian at
Hillcrest. Sparta Academy’s honor graduates were Amanda Nolin, Pia Cumagun,
Hayden Armuelles, Hope Burleson, Myles Wiggins, Keary Watts and Casey Pierce.
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