Category Archives: history

1979:

City Councilman Richard Arrington won a runoff to become Mayor of Birmingham.

Check out this 1974 audio interview (with the transcript) with the former mayor, part of the Documenting the American South collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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October 29:

1973:

Olympic gold medalist Vonetta Flowers was born.

1983:

The John A. Hand Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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October 26:

On this day in 1921, Birmingham welcomed President Warren G. Harding to Woodrow Wilson Park as part of the city’s semi-centennial celebrations.

October 27:

Historian James Sulzby, Jr died on this date in 1988.

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October 25:

Minor leaguer and Hueytown graduate Jeremy Brown celebrates his 28^th birthday today.

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October 24:

On this day in 1915, Reverend Henry Edmonds founded the Independent Presbyterian Church.

On this day in 1950, Vestavia Hills voted to incorporate.

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October 23:

On this date in 1920, an International Balloon Race was launched from Birmingham.

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