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| Herbert W. Clutter of Holcomb, Kansas |
April 14, 1775 – The first abolition society in North
America was established when the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes
Unlawfully Held in Bondage was organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin
and Benjamin Rush.
April 14, 1812
– Portuguese-New Zealand soldier, explorer and politician George Grey, who
served as the 11th Prime Minister of New Zealand, was born in Lisbon, Portugal.
Aprl 14, 1816
– Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, led a slave rebellion and was
killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
April 14, 1828 – Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of the
English Language” was published.
April 14, 1860 – The first Pony
Express rider reached San Francisco, Calif. from St. Joseph, Mo. The pony
riders carried additionally, along with the mail, a small personal bible.
April 14, 1861 – During the Civil
War, a skirmish was fought with Indians in the vicinity of the Mad River,
Calif. and President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 troops to
suppress the rebellion.
April 14, 1862 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought at Diamond Grove, Montevallo, near the Sante Fe
Road, and Walkersville in Missouri and at Pollocksville, N.C. Federal
reconnaissance of Seabrook Island, S.C. was conducted. The Federal bombardment
of Ft. Pillow, Tenn. also occurred. This was done by Federal mortar and
gunboats from the Mississippi River.
April 14, 1863 – William Bullock
patented the modern printing press in Baltimore, Md. His invention was the
first rotary printing press to self-feed the paper, print on both sides, and
count its own progress — meaning that newspapers, which had until then relied
on an operator manually feeding individual sheets of paper into a press, could
suddenly increase their publication exponentially.
April 14, 1863 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought in the vicinity of Centreville, Calif. at Irish
Bend; near Jeanerette, La.; and at Rappahannock Bridge, Kelley’s Ford, Beverly
Ford, and near Suffolk, in Virginia. The former Federal gunboat, Queen of the
West, which was being used as a Confederate ram, was destroyed by Federal
forces in Grand Lake, La.
April 14, 1864 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought in the vicinity of Dutch Mills and another at White
Oak Creek, in Arkansas; at Taylor’s Ridge, Ga.; at Half Mountain and another at
Paducah in Kentucky; and at Bayou Saline, La. A four-day Federal operation
against Cheyenne Indians between Camp Sanborn, the Colorado Territory and
Beaver Creek, Kansas began.
April 14, 1865 – U.S. Secretary of
State William H. Seward and his family were attacked in his home by Lewis
Powell, a native of Randolph County, Ala.
April 14, 1865 – Just five days
after the surrender of the Civil War’s Confederate leader, General Lee, U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary attended the play "Our
American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. At 10:13 p.m.,
during the third act of the play, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head.
Lincoln never regained consciousness and died the next morning.
April 14, 1865 – Having received orders from Union General
Edward Canby to return to Blakeley, Union Brigadier General T.J. Lucas left
Claiborne, Ala. with prisoners, wounded and some 350 “contrabands” who came
into his lines, and moved back upon the river road by which Lucas came,
reaching Stockton on April 17.
April 14, 1865 – During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought
near Tuskegee, Ala. on the Columbus Road.
April 14, 1865 – Union Major General Robert Anderson, who
surrendered Fort Sumter, S.C. at the beginning of the Civil War, raised the
same Federal flag he lowered four years before to the day over the now
Federal-controlled Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S.C.
April 14, 1865 – During the Civil
War, skirmishes were fought near Morrisville and another in the vicinity of
Saunder’s Farm in North Carolina; and at Mount Pleasant, Tenn.
April 14, 1866 - Anne Sullivan Macy, tutor and companion to
Alabama author Helen Keller, was born in Feeding Hills, Mass.
April 14, 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the kinetoscope,
a viewing device that was a precursor to the film projector.
April 14, 1910 - U.S. President William Howard Taft threw
out the first ball for the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.
April 14, 1911 – National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
Addie Joss passed away at the age of 31 in Toledo, Ohio. He played his entire
career for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in
1978.
April 14, 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic,
on its maiden voyage, hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 and began
to sink. In all, 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived.
April 14, 1914 – A hail and windstorm on this night did
considerable damage to the strawberry crop in Conecuh County, Ala.
April 14, 1915 – The Evergreen Courant reported that F.S.
Stallworth had purchased the grocery business of R.P. Millsap & Co. The
Courant also reported that Mrs. M.D. Wiggins of Monroeville had assumed charge
of the Jones House on the corner next to the Methodist Church and planned to
run a hotel out of the location.
April 14, 1916 - The Battle of Lake Naroch, an offensive on the Eastern Front by the Russian army during World War I, ended on this day after achieving little success against German positions near Lake Naroch and the Russian town of Vilna (in modern-day Lithuania).
April 14, 1920 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
Lee-Cooke Stock Co. was giving a week-long engagement under canvass on the
vacant lot at the corner of Park Street and Cemetery Avenue in Evergreen, Ala.,
and were “delighting Evergreen audiences with a splendid repertoire.”
April 14, 1920 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
Hon. L.H. Brassell was scheduled to speak at Castleberry, Ala. on the night of
Thurs., April 29, at 7:30 p.m., and at Brooklyn on Fri., April 30, at 11 a.m.
“in the interest of his candidacy for Congress.”
April 14, 1925 - WGN became the first radio station to
broadcast a regular season Major League Baseball game. The Cubs beat the
Pirates, 8-2.
April 14, 1928 – French pilot Capt. Deudonne Coste, a
35-year-old WWI ace, and French navigator Lt. Comdr. Joseph LeBrix, another
noted WWI ace, landed in Paris, completing their attempt to break the record
for an “around the world flight.” They took off from Paris on Oct. 10, 1927 and
passed over Monroeville, Ala. on Feb. 6 1928, traveling north toward Maxwell
Air Force Base in Montgomery.
April 14, 1934 – Major League Baseball outfielder Marty
Keough was born in Oakland, Calif. He went on to play for the Boston Red Sox,
the Cleveland Indians, the Washington Senators, the Cincinnati Reds, the
Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs.
April 14, 1935 - The Central Alabama Baseball League,
composed of Andalusia, Opp, Greenville and Evergreen, was scheduled to open its
season on this Sunday with Evergreen facing Opp in Opp.
April 14, 1935 - Two cars collided on this Sunday afternoon
at the point where the street running east and west by the Raymond Mims home
entered the highway, according to The Monroe Journal. Both cars, 1934
Chevrolets, were considerably damaged, but their occupants escaped with
scratches and small cuts inflicted by flying glass. The collision occurred
about 4:30 p.m.
April 14-15, 1935 – “The Mighty Barnum,” starring Wallace
Beery, was scheduled to be shown at the Evergreen Theatre in Evergreen, Ala.
April 14, 1935 – On what is now known as “Black Sunday,” the
Great Plains region experienced one of the largest dust storms in American
history.
April 14, 1935 - Loretta Lynn, a singer who greatly expanded the opportunities for women in the male-dominated world of country-western music, was born in Butcher’s Hollow, Ky.
April 14, 1939 – “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck was
first published by the Viking Press.
April 14, 1941 – Controversial Major League Baseball
outfielder, infielder and manager Pete Rose was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He
went on to play for the Cincinnati Reds, the Philadelphia Phillies and the
Montreal Expos, and he managed the Reds from 1984 to 1989.
April 14, 1942 – Inverness, Ala. native Billy Hitchcock made
his Major League debut, taking the field for the first time for the Detroit
Tigers.
April 14, 1955 - In a ceremony at
Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Ala., Wernher von Braun and 102 other
German-born scientists, technicians, and family members based at Redstone
Arsenal became American citizens. Recruited to the United States at the end of
World War II, the scientists conducted rocket research crucial to the
development of the U.S. space program.
April 14, 1960 – Evergreen High School’s baseball team
played Escambia County High School in the conference championship game in
Atmore, Ala. Evergreen entered the game 4-0 with wins over conference
opponents, W.S. Neal and Flomaton. Jeff Moorer was Evergreen’s head coach and
players on the team included Billy Bateman, pitcher; Billy Melton, catcher;
Leon Stinson, first base; Jacob Coleman, second base; Shannon Griggers, third
base; James Reeves, shortstop; Jerry Windham, left field; Johnny Ivey, center
field; and Jimmy Eddins, right field.
April 14, 1960 – Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist
Tina Rosenberg was born in Brooklyn.
April 14, 1961 – Graphic novelist Daniel Clowes was born in
Chicago.
April 14, 1965 – Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were hanged
at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing for the 1959 murder of the Herbert
Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. Their crime became the subject of Truman
Capote’s book, “In Cold Blood.”
April 14, 1965 - For the third consecutive year, the ladies
of the Brewton (Ala.) Country Club sponsored a ladies golf tournament,
scheduled to be held on this Wednesday. A registration deadline of April 7 was
set with an entrance fee of $5 required. Fees had to be paid with registration,
which was limited to 72 golfers. Fee included luncheon and door prizes, and
entries had to be mailed to Mrs. Ben Kelly Strain of Brewton. Eighteen holes of
match play were scheduled to begin with a shotgun starting at 8:30 a.m.
April 14, 1965 - The Joint Chiefs
of Staff ordered the deployment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade from Okinawa to
South Vietnam.
April 14, 1966 – National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Greg
Maddux was born in San Angelo, Texas. During his career, he played for the
Chicago Cubs, the Atlanta Braves, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego
Padres. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2014.
April 14, 1966 – National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Don
Sutton, who was born in Clio, Ala., made his Major League debut as a member of
the Los Angeles Dodgers.
April 14, 1966 – Charles C. Higdon, a 23-year-old, 1960
graduate of Evergreen High School, was commissioned an Army 2nd Lt. after
graduating from the Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga.
April 14, 1966 – Burglars cracked the safe at the
Conecuh-Monroe Counties Gas District office and got away with over $1,500, but
most of the loot (around $900) was in checks that had been marked “for deposit
only.”
April 14-16, 1966 - The grand opening event of Owens
Hardware and Electric Co. in Monroeville scheduled for this Thursday, Friday
and Saturday represented more growth and progress for Monroe County. New
location for the firm was on South Mt. Pleasant on the square in downtown
Monroeville, in the former Russell Ford location.
April 14, 1969 - For the first time, a Major League Baseball
game was played in Montreal, Canada.
April 14, 1969 – Major League Baseball catcher and manager
Brad Ausmus was born in New Haven, Conn. He went on to play for the San Diego
Padres, the Detroit Tigers, the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
April 14, 1975 – German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and
explorer Günter Dyhrenfurth passed away at the age of 88.
April 14, 1975 - The American
airlift of Vietnamese orphans to the United States ended after 2,600 children
were transported to America.
April 14, 1976 – Major League Baseball relief pitcher Kyle
Farnsworth was born in Wichita, Kansas. During his career, he played for the
Chicago Cubs, the Detroit Tigers, the Atlanta Braves, the New York Yankees, the
Kansas City Royals, the Tampa Bay Rays, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the New York
Mets and the Houston Astros.
April 14, 1978 – National Baseball Hall of Fame second
baseman Joe Gordon passed away at the age of 63 in Sacramento, Calif. During
his career, he played for the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians, and
he also managed the Indians, the Detroit Tigers, the Kansas City Athletics and
the Kansas City Royals. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2009.
April 14, 1979 – Stockcar racer J.W. Coburn, who was known
familiarly around the dirt and paved tracks of South Alabama and Northwest
Florida as “Grandpappy,” won the Helmet Dash and the Fast Heat on this Saturday
at the South Alabama Motor Speedway in Opp in the Limited Sportsman Division
and finished third in the Main Feature, to score early in the newly open racing
season. Coburn won the 1978 Championship in the Hobby Class and earlier in 1979
attended the SAMS Nasco Racing Banquet in Florala to accept the NASCAR Trophy
and Sundrop Cola Trophy. As of April 14, 1979, he was the only licensed NASCAR
driver in Conecuh County.
April 14, 1986 – The heaviest hailstones ever recorded
(2.2 lb) fell on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
April 14, 1988 – The Evergreen Courant reported that, during
its last meeting, the Conecuh County Board of Education approved the naming of
the county’s new consolidated high school, selection of the school’s official
colors and the school’s mascot. The board’s options came from recommendations
that were given by a committee of students from the Repton High, Conecuh County
High, Evergreen and Lyeffion School communities who met on several occasions to
compile this information. The unanimous choices and votes were recorded and
based on popular votes, were submitted to the Board of Education as
recommendations. The Board approved the recommendations that were submitted to
it by the student committee. The name for the new high school was to be
Hillcrest High School. The school colors are red, silver (gray) and black, and
the mascot was to be a Jaguar. The new school colors were to be incorporated
into the décor and interior of the school. The school was scheduled open in the
fall of 1989.
April 14, 1990 - Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles began a
streak of 95 errorless games and 431 total chances by a shortstop.
April 14, 1994
– In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern
Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shot down two United
States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
April 14, 1999 – The Sydney Hailstorm turned out to be one
of Australia's costliest natural disasters, with 500,000 tons of hailstones,
some as large as 3.5 inches in diameter, hitting New South Wales.
April 14, 1999 - Jose Canseco of the Tampa Bay Rays became
the 28th player to hit 400 career home runs. He was also the first non-United
States born player to hit 400 runs.
April 14, 2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad captured Abu Abbas,
leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise
liner the MS Achille Lauro
in 1985.
April 14, 2007 - Sparta Academy held its annual Miss Alpha
Pageant and the winners in the High School Division were Alex Ross, first
place; Tanner King, Miss Alpha; and Morgan Harden, second place.
April 14, 2009 - Conecuh County attorney and former state
representative Greg Albritton won this Tuesday’s Republican primary and was to
face Democrat Marc Keahey for the Senate District 22 seat. Albritton and Keahey
were running for a seat that became vacant when Sen. Pat Lindsey (D-Butler)
died unexpectedly in January 2009. Published reports on April 15 showed that
Albritton beat Judy Belk and Danny B. Joyner in all but one of the eight
counties in the district, and state party officials reported that Albritton
received 57 percent of the vote on April 14.
April 14, 2014
– German SS officer Karl-Heinz Eulin died in Munich, Germany at the age of 94.
April 14, 2016 – The Evergreen Courant reported that the
members of that year’s varsity baseball team at Sparta Academy were assistant
coach Brannon Jordan, Austin Cain, Tanner Bledsoe, Zane Lambert, Ethan Tyree,
Lanse Robbins, Tyler Hanks, Hunter Bolton, head coach Justin Chandler, Dakota
Coleman, Andrew Darby, Caleb Durphy, Griffin Weaver, Noah Pettis, Jarrett Kirk,
J.T. Baker and Stone Riley.
April 14, 2016 - The Evergreen Courant reported that the
members of that year’s varsity softball team at Sparta Academy were assistant
coach Elaine Covin, Amber Kirksey, Maggie Brock, Abby Dunn, Danielle Viers,
Lauryn Bolton, Hayden Lasley, Avie Etheridge, head coach Russ Brown, Lyndsey
Cook, Sarah Williams, Leanna Layton, McKenzie Deason, Mary Katelyn Riley, C.K.
Bolton, Mallory Simmons, Kortlann Kirksey and Summer Pate.
April 14, 2016 – The Monroe Journal reported that regular
performances of the annual stage production of “To Kill a Mockingbird” began
that week on the grounds of the Monroe County Heritage Museum on the square in
Monroeville.
April 14, 2016 – The Evergreen Courant reported that
Evergreen’s growing Liberty Hill Development, located off I-65’s Exit 96,
continued to draw even more attention earlier that week as representatives of
Dreamland Bar-B-Que toured available buildings in the development with an eye
to opening a new location in Evergreen.
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