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| Hilary Abner Herbert |
May 6, 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commenced in which Incan
forces attempted to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
May 6, 1536 – King Henry VIII ordered English-language
Bibles be placed in every church.
May 6, 1775 - New Jersey Royal Governor William Franklin
wrote that the violence at Lexington and Concord greatly diminished the chances
of reconciliation between Britain and her North American colonies.
May 6, 1778 - Continental Army Colonel Ethan Allen returned
to the United States as part of a prisoner exchange. He had been captured by
the British on Sept. 27, 1776.
May 6, 1835 – James Gordon Bennett Sr. published the first
issue of The New York Herald.
May 6, 1851 – John D. Morrissette died near Houston, Texas.
A veteran of the War of 1812, he was an early Monroe County lawyer and planter.
He was elected to the state legislature in 1829 and state senate in 1845 and
1849.
May 6, 1856 – American explorer Robert Peary was born in Cresson, Pa. He claimed to have reached the geographic
North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909.
May 6, 1956 – Sigmund Freud was born in Freiburg, Moravia.
May 6, 1859 – German geographer and explorer Alexander von
Humboldt passed away at the age of 89 in Berlin. Humboldt's quantitative work
on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.
Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the
foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.
May 6, 1861 – During the Civil War, Richmond, Virginia was
declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
May 6, 1861 - Arkansas became the ninth state to secede from
the Union.
May 6, 1862 - Union forces occupied Williamsburg, Virginia.
May 6, 1863 – During the Civil War, the Battle of
Chancellorsville ended with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by
Confederate troops.
May 6, 1864 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate
General Robert E. Lee continued fighting in the Wilderness forest. In the
battle, Confederate General James Longstreet was shot by his own troops while
scouting the lines.
May 6, 1864 – A number of the members of the Conecuh Guards
were killed or wounded on this day during the Battle of the Wilderness in
Virginia. Augustus Johnston and Newton Snowden were killed in the battle. 2nd
Lt. John S. Stearns, 2nd Sgt. Alfred H. Floyd, 3rd Cpl. James Robertson, M.A.
Cooper, Henry C. Chapman and Stephen Quinley were wounded. Stearns, who was
also wounded in Knoxville, Tenn. in November 1863, died in 1880. Floyd lost a
leg due to the wounds he received at the Wilderness, was honorably discharged
and later moved to Texas. Chapman was placed on the retired list and moved to
Texas after the war. Cooper and Quinley also moved to Texas after the war.
May 6, 1864 – Lt. Col. Hilary Abner Herbert of Greenville,
Ala. received a severe, disabling wound in his left arm at the Battle of the
Wilderness. He would go on to serve as a U.S. Representative from Alabama’s
Second Congressional District and as Secretary of the Navy under Grover
Cleveland.
May 6, 1868 – French journalist and novelist Gaston Leroux
was born in Paris.
May 6, 1889 – The Eiffel Tower officially opened to the
public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
May 6, 1899 – The “Spanish Evacuation Centennial” was held
at St. Stephens, Ala., which at the time was only a wilderness with a few
overgrown ruins.
May 6, 1901 – The dispensation (organizational) meeting for
Repton Mason Lodge No. 575 was held in Repton, Ala.
May 6, 1903 - The Chicago White Sox committed 12 errors
against the Detroit Tigers.
May 6, 1907 – Pro Football Hall of
Fame coach Weeb Ewbank was born in Richmond, Indiana. He went on to coach the
Baltimore Colts and the New York Jets. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in
1978.
May 6, 1914 – Poet and critic
Randall Jarrell was born in Nashville, Tenn.
May 6, 1915 – Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisc.
May 6, 1915 – The Monroe Journal reported that “beginning
the first week in May, merchants of the city began observance of the rule of
six o’clock closing, except on Saturdays, thus affording proprietors and
employees an opportunity for needed recreation.”
May 6, 1915 – Babe Ruth hit his first Major League home run while
pitching for the Boston Red Sox. The game was also his pitching debut.
May 6, 1920 - Dramatist William Berney was born in
Birmingham, Ala.
May 6, 1925 - Ty Cobb hit his fifth home run in only two
games. The feat tied Cap Anson's record in 1884.
May 6, 1929 - The American League announced that it would
discontinue the MVP award.
May 6, 1931 – Pro Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder
Willie Mays was born in Westfield, just outside of Bessemer, Ala. He went on to
play for the New York/San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets. He was
inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1979.
May 6, 1934 - The Boston Red Sox hit a record of four
consecutive triples.
May 6, 1935 – As part of the “New Deal,” Executive Order
7034 created the Works Progress Administration.
May 6, 1937 - The
German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed within a minute while
attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people were killed.
May 6, 1940 – John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
for his novel “The Grapes of Wrath.”
May 6, 1946 - The New York Yankees became the first Major
League Baseball team to travel by plane.
May 6, 1954 – Roger Bannister became the first person to run
the mile in under four minutes.
May 6, 1957 - U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles in Courage.”
May 6, 1957 - Alabama journalist Buford Boone of The Tuscaloosa News was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Reporting for his editorials on segregation.
May 6, 1967 – Army PFC Bobby Waits Cameron of Hayden in
Butler County, Ala. was killed in action in Vietnam.
May 6, 1975 – Three armed men robbed the Union Bank of
Castleberry, Ala. around noon and got away with about $6,400.
May 6, 1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously
selected Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421
other entries.
May 6, 1983 – The “Hitler Diaries” were revealed as a hoax
after examination by experts.
May 6, 1992 - Anthony Young of the New York Mets began a losing
streak of 26 games.
May 6, 1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and
French President François Mitterrand officiated at the opening of the Channel
Tunnel, the tunnel under the English Channel that links England and France.
May 6, 1994 – Episode No. 23 of “The X-Files” – entitled
“Roland” – aired for the first time.
May 6, 1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby
was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he
disappeared.
May 6, 1996 - The television program “My Son Is Innocent,” teleplay by Alabama
author Robert Inman and Philip Rosenberg, was broadcast.
May 6, 1998 – Kerry Wood struck out 20 Houston Astros to tie
the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did
not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
May 6, 2005 - The Harper Lee Award for Alabama's
Distinguished Writer was given to Alabama author Andrew Hudgins at the Alabama
Writers Symposium in Monroeville, Ala.
May 6, 2010 – Pro Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Robin
Roberts passed away at the age of 83 in Temple Terrace, Fla. During his playing
career, he played for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Baltimore Orioles, the
Houston Astros and the Chicago Cubs. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in
1976.
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