Nov. 12, 1729 – French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville
was born in Paris, France.
Nov. 12, 1775 - Upon hearing of England’s rejection of the
so-called Olive Branch Petition on this day, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband,
John Adams, “Let us separate, they are unworthy to be our Brethren. Let us
renounce them and instead of supplications as formerly for their prosperity and
happiness, Let us beseech the almighty to blast their councils and bring to
Nought all their devices.”
Nov. 12, 1813 - Sam Dale, Jeremiah Austill and James Smith
became frontier heroes in a Creek War episode on the Alabama River known
as “The Canoe Fight.” From their canoe, paddled by a black man named
Caesar, the three Americans engaged a large canoe carrying nine Creek warriors
near the mouth of Randon’s Creek on the Alabama River. As militiamen and
Indians watched from opposite sides of the river, Dale, Austill, and Smith
killed the nine warriors in hand-to-hand combat. (Other sources say this event
occurred on Jan. 12, 1813.)
Nov. 12, 1815 – Feminist Elizabeth
Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York.
Nov. 12-13, 1833 – In a spectacle
seen across the Southeast, a fantastic meteor shower caused this night to be
known as “the night stars fell on Alabama.” The shower created such great
excitement across the state that it became a part of Alabama folklore and for
years was used to date events. A century later it inspired a song and
book, and in 2002 the state put the phrase "Stars Fell on Alabama" on
its license plates.
Nov. 12, 1840 – French sculptor
Auguste Rodin was born in Paris.
Nov. 12, 1861 – During the Civil
War, Federal reconnaissance to Pohick Church and Occoquan Creek in Virginia
began.
Nov. 12, 1861 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought on Laurel Creek, Cotton Hill in West Virginia.
Nov. 12, 1862 – During the Civil
War, the Federal courier station on Stone’s River, Tenn. was captured, and a
skirmish was fought near Suffolk, Va.
Nov. 12, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Roseville, Ark.; at Greenleaf Prairie in the
Indian Territory; at Corinth, Miss.; and near Cumberland Gap, Tenn. Federal
operations also began about Saint Martinsville in the Bayou Tech country of
Louisiana.
Nov. 12, 1864 - Union General
William T. Sherman ordered the business district of Atlanta destroyed before he
embarked on his famous March to the Sea. He had captured Atlanta in early
September 1864, and he ordered a systematic destruction of the city to prevent Confederates
from recovering anything once the Yankees abandoned it. By one estimate, nearly
40 percent of the city was ruined.
Nov. 12, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought near Centreville, Mo.; near Cedar Creek, Newtown
(or Middletown,) and Nineveh in Virginia; and with Indians at Ash Creek near
Fort Larned, Kansas.
Nov. 12, 1867 - After more than a decade of ineffective military campaigns and infamous atrocities, a conference began at Fort Laramie to discuss alternative solutions to the “Indian problem” and to initiate peace negotiations with the Sioux.
Nov. 12, 1889 – DeWitt Wallace, the
founder of “Reader’s Digest,” was born in St. Paul, Minn.
Nov. 12, 1892 - William "Pudge"
Heffelfinger became the first professional football player on record,
participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
Nov. 12, 1895 - Five days after a huge fire on Nov. 7, fire
destroyed every business and house on the west side of the railroad tracks in
Evergreen, Ala.
Nov. 12, 1895 – “Quite a sensation”
occurred when Top Moseley and Judge Stallworth got into an altercation in
Monroeville, Ala. Moseley was said to have been interfering with an employee of
Stallworth’s, and Stallworth ordered him off his property. Moseley and
Stallworth exchanged words, and Stallworth hit Moseley with his cane. Moseley
seized the cane and hit Stallworth twice in the face before fleeing the scene.
A “crowd of boys” pursued Moseley and several shots were fired, but the chase
was abandoned after Moseley “took to the woods.”
Nov. 12, 1912 – Dr. Woodrow Wilson
Eddins born in Peterman, Ala. He went on to deliver over 9,000 babies, more
than the entire population of Monroeville today.
Nov. 12, 1912 – The frozen bodies
of Robert Scott and his men were found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Nov. 12, 1914 – After an illness of
about two weeks, former Conecuh County Sheriff Wiley W. Pridgen, 49, passed
away in Evergreen, Ala. Pridgen, who was born on July 21, 1865, moved to
Evergreen from Brewton in 1896 and was a partner in the stock and livery
business with Walter Lee. A native of Texas, who came to Alabama 25 years
before his death, Pridgen was later elected Conecuh County Sheriff, and he was an
active member of the local Knights of Pythias lodge.
His remains were shipped by train to Thomaston, Texas for burial, with his
stepfather A.W. Eatman and Walter Lee serving as escorts. He was buried in
Thomaston Community Cemetery in Thomaston in DeWitt County, Texas.
Nov. 12, 1914 – Mrs. W.C. Brantley
passed away at her home near Repton, Ala. and was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery
the next day.
Nov. 12, 1914 – The four-act
comedy, “Hazel Adams,” was performed at Monroe County High School in
Monroeville, Ala., starting at 8 p.m., a fundraiser for the school’s Domestic
Science Department.
Nov. 12, 1915 – “The Master Hand,”
starring Nat Godwin, was scheduled to be shown at the Arcade Theatre in
Evergreen, Ala.
Nov. 12, 1915 – Philosopher and
literary critic Roland Barthes was born in Cherbourg, France.
Nov. 12, 1917 - A movie version of
Alabama author Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews' book “The Courage of the Commonplace”
was released.
Nov. 12, 1918 - One day after an armistice ended World War I, the Allied fleet passed through the Dardanelles, the narrow strait running between Europe and Asia that had in 1915 been the site of a disastrous Allied naval operation.
Nov. 12, 1920 - Judge Keneshaw
Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of the American and National
Baseball Leagues.
Nov. 12, 1921 – A fiddler’s
convention was held in Paul, Ala.
Nov. 12, 1923 – English
archaeologist and explorer Ian Graham was born in Campsea Ashe, a
village in the East Anglia county of Suffolk, England.
Nov. 12, 1929 – Children’s novelist
Michael Ende, best known for his 1979 book “The Neverending Story,” was born in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Nov. 12, 1932 – Ed Morrow, 30, was
found dead from a shotgun wound near Heath’s Mill on the Farnham Plantation
near Belleville, Ala. Deputy Sheriff W.A. Moore, Coroner L.B. Chapman and a
coroner’s jury composed of C.A. Hart, C.E. Mills, Howard Landon, H.J. Owens,
M.L. Sheffield and E. Lundy went to the scene, investigated and determined that
his death was the result of a “gunshot wound inflicted by a person and persons
unknown.” Moore went on to arrest Elisha Brown, Lewis King and Vester Daily in
connection with Morrow’s death.
Nov. 12, 1933 - In Philadelphia,
the first Sunday football game was played.
Nov. 12, 1933 – Hugh Gray took the
first known photos alleged to be of the Loch Ness Monster. Gray was walking
along the shore of Loch Ness when he saw an "object of considerable
dimensions, making a big splash with spray on the surface of the
Loch." He had his camera with him, and captured what some believe to
be the first photographic evidence of the Loch Ness Monster. Others have
dismissed the image as a distortion of a dog swimming through the water.
Nov. 12, 1944 – Sportscaster Al
Michaels was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Nov. 12, 1945 – Singer and musician
Neil Young was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Nov. 12, 1945 – Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist and short-story writer Tracy Kidder was born in New
York City.
Nov. 12, 1953 - The National
Football League policy of blacking out home games was upheld by Judge Allan K.
Grim of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
Nov. 12, 1954 – Ellis Island
formally closed its doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants to
the United States in its more than a half century of service.
Nov. 12, 1955 – Novelist Katharine
Weber was born in New York City.
Nov. 12, 1956 – Prof. George
Singer, famous hypnotist, conducted a two-hour show on hypnotism at the
Evergreen City School Auditorium in Evergreen, Ala. The show was sponsored by
the Evergreen Jaycees.
Nov. 12, 1958 – A team of rock
climbers led by Warren Harding completed the first ascent of The Nose on El
Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
Nov. 12, 1959 – The Monroe Journal
reported that the “strange disappearance” of the Fred Hayles family of Uriah,
Ala. remained unsolved after a month-long investigation covering several states
had failed to produce any evidence as to their whereabouts. The family had been
missing from their home since Oct. 10, and members of the missing family
included Hayles, who was a farmer, his wife, four children his father.
Nov. 12, 1964 – The Evergreen
Courant reported that the Evergreen Jaycees had named Evergreen High School’s
Alvin Dees as Player of the Week for his performance in the Nov. 6 Evergreen-T.R.
Miller game. Dees, a senior tackle and linebacker, received the award earlier
in the season after Evergreen’s game against Greenville. Dees was named to the
Birmingham Post-Herald’s All State football team in 1963.
Nov. 12, 1964 – The Evergreen Courant reported that Cadet
2nd Lt. David Hyde Jr., the son of Mr. D.T. Hyde of Evergreen, Ala., had been
appointed Platoon Leader in Co. A by Col. John W. Paddock, Professor of
Military Science at the University of Alabama’s Army ROTC Cadet Brigade. In addition
to his activities in the Cadet Brigade, Cadet Hyde had been a member of the
ROTC Rifle Team from 1962-1964. Hyde was a graduate of Evergreen High School in
Evergreen, Ala.
Nov. 12, 1965 – Monroe County High School, under head coach
Ronnie Dees, beat Frisco City High School, 38-0, in Frisco City in the season
finale for both teams. The win also gave MCHS the county championship with wins
over all three of the other county teams and put the Tigers record at 8-1-1.
Standout MCHS players in that game included Frank McCreary, Randy McDonald,
Tommy McMillon, Mike Segers and Larry Wiggins. Standout Frisco players included
Pat Boothe, Donnie Griffey, Wayne Ikner, Mike Johns, Jim Kelly and Donnie
Wiggins.
Nov. 12, 1967 - The Detroit Lions
set a National Football League record when they fumbled the ball 11 times. They
only lost possession five of the 11 times.
Nov. 12, 1969 – During the Vietnam War, independent
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My Lai Massacre.
Nov. 12, 1969 - In Washington,
D.C., the federal government began to assemble 9,000 troops to assist the
police and National Guard with massive protests and demonstrations scheduled
for November 14-15.
Nov. 12, 1970 - Alabama author
Michelle Richmond was born in Demopolis, Ala.
Nov. 12, 1971 – During the Vietnam War, as part of Vietnamization,
U.S. President Richard Nixon set Feb. 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal
of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
Nov. 12, 1972 - Don Shula, coach of
the Miami Dolphins, became the first NFL head coach to win 100 regular season
games in 10 seasons.
Nov. 12, 1976 – Vampire novelist
Richelle Mead was born in Michigan.
Nov. 12, 1986 – Katie Sue Burt, the
widow of the late Conecuh County Commission Chairman David L. Burt, who passed
away on Nov. 7, 1986, took the oath of office as Chairman of the Conecuh County
Commission shortly after 9 a.m. in the commission meeting room. The oath of
office was administered by Circuit Judge Robert E.L. Key in the presence of the
members of the commission, members of the Burt family and friends.
Nov. 12, 1993 – Episode No. 9 of
“The X-Files” – entitled “Space” – aired for the first time.
Nov. 12, 1994 – Heather Watson was
named Conecuh County’s Junior Miss during the county’s annual Junior Miss
program at Ed Reid State Technical College in Evergreen, Ala. Other contestants
that year included Rachel Bohannon, Kelly Booker, Amanda Chavers, Kristie Ivey,
Ruby Lett, Carmon Salter and Monica Williams.
Nov. 12, 1997 - The UN Security
Council imposed new sanctions on Iraq for constraints being placed on UN arms
inspectors.
Nov. 12, 2002 - Stan Lee filed a
lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment Inc. that claimed the company had cheated
him out of millions of dollars in movie profits related to the 2002 movie
"Spider-Man." Lee was the creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk
and Daredevil.
Nov. 12, 2003 – In Nasiriyah, Iraq,
at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003
invasion of Iraq, were killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police
base.
Nov. 12, 2011 - Burnt Corn native Marcus Lee, his two
brothers and a cousin had what Lee believed to be their first encounter with a
Bigfoot-type creature in the woods across from his grandmother’s home on
Conecuh County Road 15, between Lett Hope Road and New Hope AME Zion Church,
about three miles southeast of Burnt Corn. They, along with two dogs, were out
coon hunting on this cold night, under a full moon, around 11 p.m. when they
heard what Lee described as two loud “clacks” as if someone was banging two
rocks together. Next, the ensuing silence was broken by what sounded like
something stomping or hitting the ground twice in the woods ahead of the
hunters. Next, they heard something large circling through the woods around
their group, smashing through the trees, which prompted the hunters to make
their way out of the woods.
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