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May 29, 1500 – Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias died at
the age of 48 (some sources say 49) in a shipwreck near the Cape of Good Hope.
May 29, 1677 – The Treaty of Middle Plantation established
peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
May 29, 1721 - South Carolina was formally incorporated as a
royal colony.
May 29, 1736 – American “Founding Father” and first Virginia
governor Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Colony of Virginia, British
America.
May 29, 1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before
Virginia's House of Burgesses.
May 29, 1780 – During the American Revolutionary War, at the
Battle of Waxhaws near Lancaster, S.C., the British, under commander Lt. Col.
Banastre Tarleton, continued attacking after the Continentals laid down their
arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
May 29, 1781 - Captain John Barry, commander of the American
warship Alliance captured the
HMS Atlanta and the HMS Trepassy.
May 29, 1790 – Rhode Island became the last of the original
United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and was admitted as the 13th
U.S. state.
May 29, 1825 – During his tour of the United States, the
Marquis de Lafayette visited Braddock, Pa.
May 29, 1843 - John C. Fremont again departed from St. Louis to explore the West, having only recently returned from his first western expedition.
May 29, 1848 – Wisconsin was admitted as the 30th U.S.
state.
May 29, 1862 - P.T. Beauregard began moving troops out of
Corinth, Miss. The evacuation was completed the next day.
May 29, 1862 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought
at Whitesburg, near Huntsville, Ala.
May 29, 1862
– During the Civil War, skirmishes were fought near Seven Pines, Virginia; near
Boonville and Corinth in Mississippi; at Kickapoo Bottom, Arkansas; and near
Wardensville, West Virginia.
May 29, 1863 - Ambrose Burnside
offered his resignation over the Vallandigham affair. Lincoln refused to accept
it.
May 29, 1863 – The siege at
Vicksburg, Miss. entered Day 11.
May 29, 1864 - Union troops lost another foot race with the
Confederates in a minor stop on the long and terrible campaign between Ulysses
S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
Grant was getting frustrated. After the Totopotomoy, Grant slid south to Cold
Harbor, just 10 miles from Richmond. His impatience may have gotten the best of
him. At Cold Harbor, Grant would commit the foolish mistake of hurling his
troops at well-fortified Confederates, creating a slaughter nearly unmatched
during the war
May 29, 1864 – During the Civil War, an “action” occurred at
Moulton, in Lawrence County, Ala.
May 29, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought on the Fordoche Bayou Road in Louisiana and at
Hamlin, West Virginia.
May 29, 1865 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought near Austin, Nevada.
May 29, 1865 - Andrew Johnson
granted a Presidential pardon to those who directly or indirectly aided the
Southern war effort. He restored property rights to the South with the
exception of slaves. Unlike Lincoln's declaration in December 1863, Johnson
created an exception for property owners whose holdings totaled $20,000 dollars
or more.
May 29, 1865 - President Andrew
Johnson appointed William Holden as provisional governor of North Carolina, a
blueprint for his plans of Presidential Reconstruction. Holden was instructed
to call a constitutional convention of men who had signed an oath of allegiance
to the United States.
May 29, 1874 – English author G.K. Chesterton was born
Gilbert Keith Chesterton in London.
May 29, 1880 – German philosopher Oswald Spengler was born
in Blankenburg, Germany.
May 29, 1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton placed his first
advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
May 29, 1886 – The Monroe County Convention was scheduled to
meet on this Saturday, according to The Monroe Journal.
May 29, 1896 - Mr. J. Falkner, representing the Alabama
Mercantile Co. of Montgomery, was in Pineville on this Friday.
May 29, 1900 – Charles Pawson Atmore, the General Passenger
Agent of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, passed away from apoplexy at
the age of 66 in his room at Forth and Chestnut Street in Louisville, Ky. Born
on Feb. 28, 1834 on the Island of Guernsey, he was buried in the Cave Hill
Cemetery in Louisville, Ky. After coming to American, he entered the railway
service of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway, and afterward,
occupied several positions with other railroads. In 1872, he became the General
Passenger Agent of the Louisville and Nashville. The City of Atmore, located in
Escambia County, Alabama, was named after Charles Pawson Atmore. Prior to 1896,
the City of Atmore was known as William's Station.
May 29, 1901 - Seven days into the
Constitutional Convention of 1901 a petition submitted by Booker T. Washington
and 23 other African-American leaders was read to convention delegates, all of
whom were white. The petition asked that the black Alabamian be given
"some humble share in choosing those who shall rule over him."
Nevertheless, with the ratification of the Constitution of 1901 in November,
blacks--along with poor whites--were effectively disfranchised.
May 29, 1903 – Comedian Bob Hope
was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, near London, England. His family moved
to the United States when he was four years old, and he grew up in Cleveland,
Ohio. Hope died in 2003, two months after his 100th birthday.
May 29, 1904 – The Rev. W.N. Huckabee preached at the Sowell
Old Field School House (Monroe County?) on this fifth Sunday evening at 5 p.m.
May 29, 1906 – English author T.H.
White was born Terence Hanbury White in Bombay, India, to English parents
employed by the British civil service. He is best known for his sequence of
Arthurian novels, “The Once and Future King,” first published together in 1958.
May 29, 1909 – The Conecuh Record reported that about four
inches of rain fell in Evergreen, Ala. on this day and 1-1/2 inches fell the day
before.
May 29, 1911 – The government thermometer reached 100
degrees on this day in Evergreen, Ala.
May 29, 1913 – Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”
premiered at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris.
May 29, 1914 – English explorer, hunter and author Henry
Seton-Karr passed died at the age of 61 in Canada’s greatest maritime disaster
when the Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River when he was
returning to England from a hunting trip in British Columbia.
May 29, 1914 – Edgar Lee Masters published the first poem of
what would later be collected and published as “The Spoon River Anthology” in
1915.
May 29, 1915 – The Bowles baseball team beat Skinnerton,
17-12, on this Saturday.
May 29, 1916 - The New York Giants won their 17th consecutive
road game.
May 29, 1916 - Author Virginia Pounds Brown was born in
Birmingham, Ala.
May 29, 1916 – As part of the closing exercises of the
Second District Agricultural School in Evergreen on this Monday evening, a
Chinese operetta, ‘The Feast of the Little Lanterns,’ was presented to “a large
and appreciative audience,” according to The Conecuh Record. “All the girls in
the play acquitted themselves splendidly; those deserving special mention are
Misses Sara Cunningham, Edith Shields and Evelyn Chapman. Mrs. Dr. Hairston of
Burnt Corn, who ably assisted Miss Gammon, played the part of a ‘Japanese
Juggler Maid’ and her work could not have been surpassed.”
May 29, 1916 - The state high school commission, at its
meeting in Montgomery on this Monday, reelected Prof. G.A. Harris as principal
of the Monroe County High School for the ensuing year. Principals of the 50
other high schools in the state were named at the meeting, among their number
being Prof. G.M. Veasey for Chambers, Prof. Claud Hardy for Wilcox and Prof.
C.A. Peavey for Escambia.
May 29, 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President
of the United States, was born in Brookline, Mass.
May 29, 1917 – “Another noble old veteran in the person of
Mr. D.M. McNeil has called to his reward, his death occurring suddenly at his
home near Axle” on this Tuesday evening, aged upward of 70 years.
May 29, 1918 – Wm. T. Broughton and Zeilin Simpson, who both
died in World War I, were inducted into the Army and sent to Camp Sevier, S.C.
for training.
May 29, 1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized
baseball was a sport, and not subject to antitrust laws.
May 29, 1922 – In connection with
the ongoing commencement exercises at the State Secondary Agricultural School
in Evergreen, Ala., a baseball game was scheduled to be held on this Monday at
3:30 p.m.
May 29, 1922 - The eighth annual commencement exercises of
the Conecuh County High School were brought to a conclusion on this Monday
evening with an operetta in the school auditorium. Thirteen students received
diplomas at the hands of Supt. W.R. Bennett at the Monday morning exercises.
Dr. John W. Abercrombie, state superintendent of education, delivered the
baccalaureate address Monday morning, immediately following which came the
presentation of medals and diplomas. The medals awarded were: scholarship,
Marie McDonald; affability, Bertie Skinner; perfect attendance, Clement Brooks,
Alma Booker and Philip Kyser. The graduating class was composed of three boys
and 10 girls, with Bertie Skinner, president. They were Ruby Lou Wood, Pluma
Jones, Verdie Estelle Jones, Elizabeth Skinner, Addra Alice Skinner, Jessie
Holland, Alma Eugene Booker, Ellye Myrtice Sauders, Ida Mae Ward, Mary Ellen
Albreast, Roderick Matthews, Oris Sullivan and John Somerall.
May 29, 1932
– World War I veterans began to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army
to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
May 29, 1942 - A movie version of Alabama author Octavus Roy
Cohen's book “Gallant
Lady” was released.
May 29, 1943 - Marvin Coleman died of a heart attack on this
Saturday night about 11:30 p.m. He was on duty as town marshal of Frisco City
when death came.
May 29, 1946
– German SS officer Martin Gottfried Weiss, after being found guilty of
"violating the laws and usages of war," was executed by hanging at Landsberg
prison at the age of 40.
May 29, 1947 – The Evergreen Courant reported, under
“HI-LITES OF EHS,” that achievements of Evergreen High School students during
the 1946-47 school year included, “No. 1 Basketball Player in District One,
James Carpenter; Good Sportsmanship Award for District One in Competition with
32 high schools, R.E. Ivey, James Carpenter, Mickey Logue, Gillis Jones, Melvin
Brantley, Glenn McIntyre, George Hendricks, George Brown; County Junior
Basketball Champions, Jack Cunningham, Bobby Frank Snowden, Dickey Bozeman,
Billy Mudge Lee, Guerry Moorer, John Logue, Jeff Moorer, Tommy White; No. 4
Basketball Team in District One.”
May 29, 1947 – The Evergreen Courant reported that
friends of Edward Beasley were “glad to see him out again after having suffered
a broken leg during a ball game.”
May 29, 1947 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Repton
High School won seven of the 10 baseball games they played that year. “The Watson
brothers starred as catcher and pitcher,” the scores were as follows: Lyeffion
5, Repton 4; Castleberry 5, Repton 9; Lyeffion 8, Repton 17; Castleberry 6,
Repton 7; Castleberry 2, Repton 1; Castleberry 1, Repton 2; Monroeville 8,
Repton 18; Monroeville 11, Repton 9; McKenzie 4, Repton 11; McKenzie 4, Repton
11. Repton scored 89 runs in 10 games, an average of 8.9 scores per game. There
were six home runs hit by Sawyer; Marion Watson, 1; Carl Watson, 1; Lamar
Crutchfield, 1; Ray Nall, 1.
May 29, 1947 – The Evergreen Courant reported that it was
the unanimous decision of the Evergreen High School Journalism club to donate
its entire funds to the Summer Recreation Program social committee.
May 29, 1947 - The Evergreen Courant reported that the
Evergreen Junior Chamber of Commerce planned to sponsor the popular June dance
which for many years was an annual affair attended by large crowds from
Evergreen and nearby towns. “Wartime was not dancetime but now most of the boys
and girls are back and ready for a good time so this will be the first in a new
series of June dances.”
May 29, 1947 – This day’s edition of The Monroe Journal
carried the following advertisement – “Now is the Time… LEARN TO FLY –
Instruction leading to Private, Commercial and Flight Instructor Ratings now
available at Monroeville Airport – Charter Trips Anywhere, Passenger Rides Any
Time – REASONABLE RATES – VETERANS: Make Your Application for FREE FLIGHT
TRAINING Under GI Bill. For Further Information Contact Mr. Frost at Airport.
MONROEVILLE AVIATION CO.”
May 29, 1947 – The Monroe Journal reported that Miss Alice
Lee spent the previous weekend with her sister, Mrs. Herschel Conner Jr., and
family in Eufaula.
May 29, 1949 - Barzell Griffin, 24-year-old who escaped
from the Conecuh County Jail in Evergreen on Tues., May 24, was picked up by
law enforcers in Birmingham on this Sunday after a tip from the sheriff’s
office in Evergreen, Conecuh County Sheriff W.D. Lewis reported. The Jefferson
County law enforcers picked up Griffin by watching his wife, who lived in
Birmingham, after receiving the information from Sheriff Lewis. Lewis also
informed The Courant that Griffin was being held in Birmingham to face trial on
a burglary indictment from several months before. Griffin was also wanted in Selma
and Pensacola, Fla. Griffin was being held in Evergreen for breaking into Brown
Supply Co. and cracking their safe. He got away with $300 after smashing the
safe with an axe. When Griffin broke out of the county jail in Evergreen it
marked the sixth time he had escaped from civil and army authorities since
beginning his career of crime 13 years before at the age of 11.
May 29, 1950 – The St.
Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrived in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
May 29, 1951 - C.F. Blair became the first man to fly over
the North Pole in single engine plane.
May 29, 1952 – Country music legend Hank Williams and his
wife, Audrey, were divorced.
May 29, 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of
Nepal became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing
Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday. "A symmetrical, beautiful, snow cone
summit," Hillary said of the peak that is 29,028 feet above sea level.
May 29, 1954 - The first meeting of the annual Bilderberg
group, a secretive, invitation-only gathering with the elite from such fields
as politics, commerce, and banking, was held.
May 29, 1955 – New Hope Baptist Church at Natchez, Ala. held
its 100th anniversary homecoming.
May 29, 1955 - John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to
assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was born in Ardmore, Okla.
May 29, 1959 – Repton High School was scheduled to hold its
graduation exercises at 8 p.m. in Repton, Ala. Starr Smith of Montgomery was to
deliver the graduation address, and Principal E.H. Penny was to deliver the
diplomas.
May 29, 1962 – First baseman Fred Whitfield, a native of
Vandiver, Ala., made his first Major League start, two days after his Major
League debut. He went 1-for-4 for the St. Louis Cardinals at Pittsburgh’s
Forbes Field with his first hit coming in the fourth inning, a RBI single off
Al McBean that scored Red Schoendienst.
May 29, 1962 - Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black
coach in Major League Baseball when he accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs.
May 29, 1963 - A delegation of Monroe County, Ala. residents
planned to meet with Gov. George Wallace and State Superintendent of Education
Austin Meadows in Montgomery on this Wednesday to discuss Monroe County as a
location for a new prospective junior college.
May 29, 1965 – Repton High School was scheduled to hold
graduation exercises on this Saturday night at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium
in Repton, Ala. Dorothy Waller was the valedictorian, and Willene Powell was
the salutatorian. Twenty-three seniors were expected to receive diplomas.
May 29, 1965 - Dick Allen of the Philadelphia Phillies hit a
529-foot home run out of Connie Mack Stadium.
May 29, 1967 - Noel Gallagher, the lead guitarist, co-lead
vocalist and principal songwriter of the rock band Oasis, was born in
Longsight, Manchester, England.
May 29, 1967 - Economist and “Freakonomics” co-author Steven
Levitt was born in St. Paul, Minn.
May 29, 1972 – Sparta Academy held its first ever graduation
exercises on this Monday at 8 p.m. at Stuart-McGehee Field in Evergreen, Ala.
Members of the class included Forrest Brantley, Robert Carleton, Terry Chapman,
Martha Gaines, Gary Gibson, Donnie Griggers, Beth Harper (salutatorian), Kitty
Horton, Deborah Josey, Crawford King (valedictorian), Mary Ann Mack, Charlotte
McCreary, Mike McKenzie, Joey Nix, Carey Stinson, Larry Tranum, Mike Turner,
Shelia Ward and Dwight Watson.
May 29, 1972 - In a joint
communique issued by the United States and the Soviet Union following the
conclusion of summit talks with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev during
President Richard Nixon’s visit to Moscow (the first visit ever by an U.S.
president), both countries set forth their standard positions on Vietnam. The
United States insisted that the future of South Vietnam should be left to the
South Vietnamese without interference. The Soviet Union insisted on a
withdrawal of U.S. and Allied forces from South Vietnam and an end to the
bombing of North Vietnam.
May 29, 1972 - Evergreen High School was scheduled to award
diplomas to 77 students at graduation exercises at eight o’clock on this Monday
night at Brooks Stadium. Dr. Paul Hubbert of Montgomery, executive secretary of
the Alabama Education Association, was to be the speaker. Joann Rogers was
valedictorian, and Ann Coburn was salutatorian. Diplomas were to be awarded by
Principal John Floyd.
May 29, 1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon agreed to turn
over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
May 29, 1976 – Major League Baseball infielder and outfielder
Jerry Hairston Jr. was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He went on to play for the
Baltimore Orioles, the Chicago Cubs, the Texas Rangers, the Cincinnati Reds,
the New York Yankees, the San Diego Padres, the Washington Nationals, the
Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
May 29, 1976 – NBA power forward and center Raef LaFrentz
was born in Hampton, Iowa. He went on to play for Kansas, the Denver Nuggets,
the Dallas Mavericks, the Boston Celtics and the Portland Trail Blazers.
May 29, 1981 – The Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Ala. were
designated a National Historic Landmark.
May 29, 1984 - The Boston Red Sox retired the No. 9 jersey
of Ted Williams and the No. 4 jersey of Joe Cronin.
May 29, 1986 - The first issue of "The Frisco
Citian" newspaper was published in Frisco City, Ala.
May 29, 1987 – In Monroeville, Ala., Alabama Bureau of
Investigations agent Simon Benson conducted a tape-recorded interview in the
county courthouse with Karen Kelly, whom he suspected of lying about the Vickie
Lynn Pittman murder, according to Pete Earley’s book “Circumstantial Evidence.”
May 29, 1990 - Rickey Henderson stole his 893rd base,
breaking Ty Cobb's record.
May 29, 1992 - Tim Raines of the Chicago White Sox stole his
700th career base.
May 29, 1997 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Dwayne
Hodges of Carrollton, Texas and a former resident of Evergreen had killed two
large turkeys recently. The largest weighed 19.1 pounds and had a nine-inch
beard and the smallest weighed 14.5 pounds and had a six-inch beard.
May 29, 1997 – The Evergreen Courant reported, under the
headline “GRATIA Enterprises, Inc. now open for business,” that the Conecuh
County Economic Development Authority had announced that GRATIA Enterprises,
Inc., a manufacturer of custom fashions for the home or business, had recently
opened its doors. The plant was located on Highway 31, three miles south of
Evergreen. Four employees were employed with GRATIA. Tommy Shehan, Beverly
Lowery, Teresa Hawsey and Robert Lassiter made up that list. Those employees
had varied experience within home fashions manufacturing that allowed GRATIA to
offer a wide variety of products including bedspreads, roman shades, balloon
shades, ruffled curtains, draperies and decorative pillows.
May 29, 1997 – The Monroe Journal reported that several
Monroeville employees devoted their off-duty time during the previous week to
install a static helicopter display on Veterans Avenue. The military craft was
the most common type flown during the Vietnam War. Police Chief Bill Dailey was
joined by Fire & Rescue Department Chief Eddie Everett, firefighter Billy
Wayne Black, city compliance officer Robert Sims and others in placing the
exhibit in time for Memorial Day.
May 29, 2001 - In New York, four followers of Osama bin
Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes
included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224
people.
May 29, 2003 – High Ground Burial in Baldwin County, Ala. was
added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register.
May 29, 2003 - The Dulaney Cemetery in Wilcox County, Ala. was
added to the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register.
May 29, 2004 – The National World War II Memorial was
dedicated in Washington, D.C.
May 29, 2015 – NFL defensive back and Olympic track athlete
Henry Carr, a native of Montgomery, Ala., died at the age of 73 in Griffin, Ga.
He played football at Arizona State and for the New York Giants.
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