June 6, 1586 – Francis Drake's forces raided St. Augustine
in Spanish Florida.
June 6, 1622 – French-American missionary and explorer
Claude-Jean Allouez was born in Saint-Didier-en-Velay, France.
June 6, 1749
– The Conspiracy of the Slaves in Malta was discovered.
June 6, 1755 – American soldier Nathan Hale was born in
Coventry, Connecticut Colony. He became a soldier in the Continental Army
during American Revolutionary War and is considered to be America's first spy.
He is known for his famous quote "I only regret that I have but one life
to lose for my country."
June 6, 1775 - Marinus Willett and a small group of Sons of
Liberty confronted British soldiers as they were evacuating New York City and
seized wagonloads of weapons.
June 6, 1799 – Aleksandr Pushkin, the father of modern
Russian literature, was born in Moscow.
June 6, 1812 – The last issue of The Mobile Centinel, the
first newspaper in Alabama, was published at Fort Stoddert. The first issue was
published on May 11, 1811 (some sources say May 23, 1811.)
June 6, 1813 – During the War of 1812, at the Battle of
Stoney Creek, a British force of 700 under John Vincent defeated an American
force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
June 6, 1815 – Rev. William C. Morrow was born in Pulaski
County, Tenn. He went on to become a Presbyterian minister whose first
assignment was to serve Old Flat Creek Church at Turnbull in Monroe County,
Ala. Morrow passed away at the age of 64 on Oct. 16,
1879 and was buried in the Old Beulah Cemetery in Conecuh County. (Some
sources, including his headstone, indicate that Morrow was born on June 5.)
June 6, 1833 - Andrew Jackson became the first U.S.
president to ride in a train. It was a B&O passenger train.
June 6, 1840 – In this day’s issue of Philadelphia’s
“Saturday Evening Post,” Edgar Allan Poe bought advertising space for the
prospectus of “The Penn,” a monthly literary journal he intended to begin
publishing. The journal was never produced before Poe's death.
June 6, 1849 – Edmund P. Gaines passed away at the age of 76
in New Orleans and was buried in the Church Street Graveyard in Mobile, Ala.
Born in Culpepper County, Va. on March 20, 1777, he and a detachment of mounted
riflemen arrested former Vice President Aaron Burr on the road north of Fort
Stoddert in February 1807 and escorted him to Washington, D.C. for trial on
charges of treason.
June 6, 1861
– During the Civil War, the Federal cabinet decided that war expenses should be
paid by the national government, except those of the states for mobilization
prior to swearing in of the men.
June 6, 1862 - On this day, during the Battle of Memphis, after
a lengthy naval battle, the Union claimed Memphis, Tenn., the Confederacy's
fifth-largest city, a naval manufacturing yard, and a key Southern industrial
center.
June 6, 1862 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Grand River, Oklahoma and near Tompkinsville,
Kentucky. An “affair” also occurred at Port Royal Ferry, South Carolina.
Fighting also occurred south of Corinth, with skirmishes from Booneville to
Baldwyn in Mississippi.
June 6, 1862 – During the Civil War,
in a rearguard action, just south of Harrisonburg, Va., Stonewall Jackson’s
colorful cavalry chief, Turner Ashby, was killed.
June 6, 1863 – Cpl. Robert E.
Archer, one of four Confederate soldier sons of Amos Archer of Monroe County,
Ala., died from meningitis at Alton Prison, Ill. after being captured at Port
Gibson on May 4, 1863. A member of Co. E of the 23rd Alabama Regiment, he was
buried in the prison cemetery, now called Confederate Cemetery, in North Alton,
Madison County, Illinois. His other Confederate soldier brothers were Thomas F.
Archer, William Archer and James O. Archer.
June 6, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought near Doniphan and Rocheport in Missouri; near
Perryville, Virginia; near Richmond, Louisiana; near Shawneetown, Kansas; and
at Waitsborough, Kentucky. An “affair” also occurred near Waverly, Missouri.
June 6, 1863 – During the Civil
War, the siege at Vicksburg, Miss. entered Day 19.
June 6, 1864 – During the Civil
War, an engagement was fought at Old River Lake, Arkansas, and a skirmish was
fought near Moorefield, West Virginia.
June 6, 1865 – Confederate soldier Lafayette Washington Duke
of Co. C, 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment was released after taking the Oath of
Allegiance. He enlisted as a private in the Monroe Guards (later Co. D of the 5th
Alabama) at Pineville on March 15, 1861. Wounded and given furlough home to
Monroe County on June 27, 1862, he was taken prisoner at the Wilderness on May
5, 1864, forwarded to Point Lookout, Md. on May 18, 1864 and then to Elmira
Prison, N.Y. on Aug. 15, 1864. Duke served four years as a member of the Fifth
Alabama. He eventually returned home to Monroe County, became a Baptist
minister and eventually moved to Texas. He was a Freemason for 52 years and was
a member of the Tyler Lodge at the time of his death and was a member of the
Pat Cleburne UCV Camp. He was a Baptist minister for 57 years, including 42
years in Texas. Born on April 25, 1843, he passed away from a stroke at the age
of 82 at his home in Waco, Texas and was buried Oakwood Cemetery in Waco,
McLennan County, Texas.
June 6, 1865 - Confederate raider William Quantrill died
from shot in the back that he received while escaping from a Union patrol near
Taylorsville, Ky. He was 27 years old.
June 6, 1868 – English sailor and explorer Robert Falcon
Scott was born in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK.
June 6, 1875 – Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann was
born in Lubeck, Germany.
June 6, 1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroyed all of
downtown Seattle.
June 6, 1890 – Hugh T. Fountain was appointed to another
term as postmaster at Burnt Corn, Ala.
June 6, 1895 – The Monroe Masonic Chapter No. 4 was
scheduled to hold a regular convocation in the Masonic Hall at Perdue Hill,
Ala. at 10 a.m. to elect officers, pay dues and handle other business matters.
June 6, 1896 - The members of the Monroe County Corps were
ordered to appear at Claiborne on this Saturday night in order to go to
encampment in Mobile. All state property was required to be brought, no matter
of what nature or condition. Any member absenting himself without good excuse
was to be tried by court martial as a deserter. T.B. Nettles was Commander of
Co. M of the 1st Regiment of Alabama State Troops.
June 6, 1896 - The Monroeville members of the Monroe County
Corps left on this Saturday afternoon for encampment at Mobile. They were
joined at Claiborne by members from others parts of the county. The Register
reported the following officers and members in camp: Co. M, Monroe County
Corps, Monroeville – Capt. F.B. Nettles, First Lt. J.H. Moore, Second Lt. M.M.
Fountain, Third Lt. J.P. Russell, First Sergeant J.N. Ivey, Second Sgt. W.D.
Fore, Corporals J.P. Stallworth, F.M. Jones, Privates Carl Shiff, J.D. Boykin,
R.J. Lambert, Clinton Thames, J.C. Morris, W.S. Sowell, W.C. Neville, C.A.
Seymour, Ben Simmons, Robert Smith, T.E. Dennis, H. Davis.
June 6, 1900 – Evander Tennant McWilliams, a few months
before he became the first postmaster at McWilliams, married Katherine Galliard
McWilliams in Mobile.
June 6, 1906 - On this Wednesday, the saw mill at McWilliams
caught fire, an alarm was given and men from all parts of town rushed with
buckets of water and the fire was soon extinguished.
June 6, 1907 – National Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Bill
Dickey was born in Bastrop, La. He played his entire career for the New York
Yankees. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1954.
June 6, 1907 – The Monroe Journal reported that Sheriff
Fountain went to Mobile the previous week on official business.
June 6, 1907 – The Monroe Journal reported that Prof. J.M.
Sowell, who was teaching at Franklin, paid a brief visit to home folks that
week.
June 6, 1907 – The Monroe Journal reported that G.W.
Broughton had been appointed County Tax Commissioner, a position made vacant by
the resignation of Dr. R.A. Smith. Broughton had served as County Surveyor for
the previous several years and also assisted Dr. Smith in his work during the
previous year.
June 6, 1907 – The Monroe Journal reported that Dr. R.A.
Smith was down from Nadawah during the previous week. Smith had sold his
practice and drug business at Nadawah to a Dr. Bradford and moved to Brewton on
June 1 where he had acquired an interest in the Star Drug Co. in Brewton and
planned to devote himself to that business in connection with the general
practice of his profession.
June 6, 1915 – Over 1,600 pounds of dynamite in a warehouse
of the Blacksher Warehouse Co. at Uriah, Ala. exploded on this Sunday
afternoon. The explosion, which was felt and heard for miles around, injured
seven people, but no one was killed. The warehouse and two residences were
destroyed, debris was scattered for some distance, but the cause of the
explosion was unknown.
June 6, 1916 - Dr. J.W. Rutherford was over from Franklin on
this Tuesday to accompany the Forrest Highway party on its inspection tour
through South Monroe County.
June 6, 1917 - On this Wednesday afternoon, the music Study
Club of Camden was given a nice treat by Mrs. E.H. Pritchett in her lovely
suburban home, which had been made more attractive than ever by the addition of
a very fine and beautifully sweet toned Victrola on which club members heard
Verdi’s beautiful opera, Il Grovatore. The club’s President, Mrs. B.M. Miller,
in her gracious manner, gave the story of the opera very entertainingly, having
seen it played in Atlanta several times.
June 6, 1918
– During World War I’s Battle of Belleau Wood, the first large-scale battle
fought by American soldiers in World War I, the U.S. Marine Corps suffered its
worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry,
northwest of the Paris-to-Metz road.
June 6, 1925 – Hall of Fame Alabama high school football
coach and former Livingston College coach Morris Higginbotham was born in
Birmingham, Ala.
June 6, 1925 – Poet Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia.
June 6, 1928 - Nixon Ousley, charged with the murder of
Calvin Casey near Excel on Sun., May 27, was given a preliminary hearing before
Judge Fountain on this Wednesday and remanded to jail without bail to await the
action of the grand jury. Evidence brought out in the trial differed materially
from reports current previous to the hearing, the claim of self-defense being
supported only by the testimony of the defendant himself. It appears from the
evidence of witnesses for the state that Casey was unarmed at the time of the
shooting.
June 6, 1933 – The first drive-in theater opened in Camden,
New Jersey.
June 6, 1934 - Myril Hoag of the New York Yankees hit six
singles in a game against the Boston Red Sox.
June 6, 1939 - The New York Giants hit five home runs in the
fourth inning in a 17-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
June 6, 1939 – Evergreen’s mayor and city council, at their
regular weekly meeting on this Tuesday night, awarded contract to the
Lane-Central Co. of Memphis for the installation of a new well. Work was to begin
within the next week and it was expected that it would be ready for use not
later than July 15. The well was to be located on the triangular lot in front
of the City School next to the overhead bridge. The contractors expected that
it would be necessary to go a depth of approximately 300 feet to secure ample
water supply. This was about the depth of the old well.
June 6, 1939 - T.O. Langham, newly elected member of the Evergreen
City Council, was sworn in during a meeting on this Tuesday night and
participated in the proceedings of the meeting.
June 6, 1944 – Major Vernon “Junie” Burns of Megargel, Ala.
was severely wounded while commanding a 70-man landing craft at Normandy Beach
when their boat struck a mine. He’d played guard on Auburn’s football team for
three seasons prior to this. His leg was later amputated, but he received a
Silver Star for valor in combat for preventing 11 of his men from drowning.
June 6, 1946 – The National Basketball Association was
created with eleven teams.
June 6, 1948 – The Rev. Sam Granade preached his first
sermon in Evergreen, Ala. as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Evergreen.
June 6, 1949 - George Orwell’s
novel of a dystopian future, “Nineteen Eighty-four,” was first published.
June 6, 1950 – The first issue of "The Frisco City
Sun" was published. The last issue was published on Aug. 29, 1951.
June 6, 1964 - Two U.S. Navy jets
flying low-altitude target reconnaissance missions over Laos were shot down by
communist Pathet Lao ground fire.
June 6, 1964 - The first cotton bloom turned in to The
Monroe Journal that season was found on this day on the farm of J.C. Mims &
Son of Uriah. Present indications were very favorable for another bumper crop
of cotton that year, observers said.
June 6, 1965 - Tom Tresh of the New York Yankees hit home
runs on three consecutive at-bats against the Chicago White Sox.
June 6, 1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44
a.m. in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was shot the
evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.
June 6, 1969 - Graduation exercises were held for the 30th
session of the Alabama Police Academy, and among those graduating from that
session was Larry C. Morrison, patrolman, Evergreen Police Department. Col.
Floyd Mann was Director of the Department of Public Safety.
June 6, 1971
– During the Vietnam War, the Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese
communist forces began.
June 6, 1972 – Monroe County High School left-handed pitcher
and outfielder Larry Snowden, age 18, was selected in the 30th round of the
1972 MLB June Amateur Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates, the 672nd
pick overall. The 6-foot-0, 160-pound Snowden (who wore jersey No. 37) went on
to pitch for the Gulf Coast Rookie League Pirates.
June 6, 1972 - South Vietnamese
forces drove out all but a few of the communist troops remaining in Kontum.
Over 200 North Vietnamese had been killed in six battles in and around the
city.
June 6, 1985
– The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" was opened in Embu, Brazil; the
exhumed remains were later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's
"Angel of Death." Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming
in February 1979.
June 6, 1992 - Eddie Murray passed Mickey Mantle on the
all-time switch-hitter RBI list. Mantle held the record at 1,509.
June 6, 1996 – Sixteen guests and staff members at the
Craigcarroch House Hotel on the shore of Loch Ness reported having seen the
powerful wake of some large marine creature moving across the lake for five to
10 minutes. Although none of the witnesses to the event said that they actually
saw Nessie, Kate Munro, one of the hotel’s owners, said that it had to have been
a very large creature to create such a frothy disturbance and to move in a
zigzagging motion on an otherwise placid lake surface.
June 6, 1996 - John Valentin became the 14th player in
Boston Red Sox history to hit on all at-bats during a game. He hit for the
cycle when he went 4-for-4 against the Chicago White Sox.
June 6, 1996 - Baseball's executive council told Marge
Schott, owner of the Cincinnati Reds, to give up day-to-day operations within a
week or face a suspension of more than a year. Schott had caused controversy
with comments she made concerning Adolph Hitler in an ESPN interview.
June 6, 2001 - U.S. District Court Judge Matsch rejected a
request to delay the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy
McVeigh. The date was left at June 11.
June 6, 2002 – In what is now called the “Eastern
Mediterranean Event,” a near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter
exploded over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting
explosion was estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful
than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
June 6, 2003 - The Seattle Mariners were defeated by the New
York Mets to end their 13-game road winning streak.
June 6, 2008 – The Huntsville Stars retired former president
and general manager Don Mincher’s No. 5 jersey in an on-field ceremony even
though he never played for the team.
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