1983:
Philadelphia Stars 21 – Birmingham Stallions 10 at Veterans Stadium.
2004:
Socialite and philanthropist Marie Ingalls died at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
1983:
Philadelphia Stars 21 – Birmingham Stallions 10 at Veterans Stadium.
2004:
Socialite and philanthropist Marie Ingalls died at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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The 11th Circuit United States Court of Appeals has just posted this decision, ordering that the case brought by former physical education teacher Bruce Baker against the City of Birmingham’s Board of Education proceed. Since we can’t find any details about the original case, we’ll just link to their opinion as posted on their website.
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1965:
Woodward Iron Company executive Joseph Woodward II died in North Carolina.
1999:
Birmingham Central Station was dedicated.
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Officials unveiling the Alabama stamp are (left to right) Birmingham Postmaster Samuel Jaudon, Gov. Bob Riley, Montgomery Postmaster Teresa Welch, and Lee Sentell, director of Alabama Tourism. Office of the Governor, State of Alabama.
Now you can send your friends a taste of Alabama when you send that next letter (since handwritten notes still mean a lot). The state is one of the first to be honored with a stamp that was unveiled today in Montgomery.
Just in case you were stuck in traffic early this morning along U.S. Hwy 280, it may have been because WERC‘s Leah Brandon decided to protest the current highly gas prices by riding her horse to work. You may want to check out the pictures on their site.
Men’s Health recently ranked the cities with the greenest drivers in the U.S. – and Birmingham was near the bottom of the list. We ended up ranked 96th with a grade of F. The top city – Seattle, WA…
But Birmingham was recently ranked as the top ranked Southern real estate market according to Money Magazine, beating out New Orleans and Baton Rogue, LA and placing quite high in the magazine’s overall listing of the top 100 U.S. real estate markets.
Today the City Council asked Mayor Langford to suspend the use of tasers following the death of Willie Maye; he said he would not consider their request until he’s had a chance to review the police report.
We did promise an announcement about July 26 today, didn’t we:
Click on the image above to learn more info!
Special thanks to Travis Morgan at Skybucket Records and Adam Stoves for the poster design.
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That is what was proposed by Mayor Larry Langford earlier today during the City Council meeting. He said that he would be asking the Birmingham Airport Authority to rename the current facility for civil rights icon the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.
Aerial of Seibels/Bryan Birmingham International Airport. Bob Farley/f8photo
The proposal would change the name from the current, seldom used one – Seibels/Bryan – Birmingham International Airport (for former Birmingham mayor George Siebels and Brother Bryan. (No, we didn’t know either until we did the research ourselves…)