The way temperatures were late last week here in Birmingham, it would be easy to let your mind think about a sport not normally associated with The Magic City – hockey (easy for us Northerners anyway).
Well, NHL great Frank Mahovlich recently sat down with the folks at NHL.com to talk about his time in the city while playing with the WHA’s Birmingham Bulls. The current member of the Canadian Senate from Ontario (and NHL Hall of Famer) seems to have some fond memories of his time down here.
1910:
Rickwood Field opened with a 3:30 PM game. The Birmingham Barons defeated the Montgomery Climbers 3-2.
2005:
Singer Bo Bice underwent emergency surgery for a blocked intestine.
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1955:
Satchel Paige signed a contract to play for the Greensboro Patriots of the Carolina League.
2006:
Adventurer and mountain climber Robert Davis III died while descending Mount Kenya.
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1854:
Sixth Avenue Baptist Church pastor J. Q. A. Wilhite was born in Louisville, Kentucky
1992:
Driver Clifford Allison died in a single car crash at the Michigan International Speedway.
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1926:
Jazz musician Urbie Green was born in Mobile.
2002:
The Club purchased the adjacent 6.5 acres of land which once housed Baby Doe’s Matchless Mine restaurant.
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1890:
Inventor and emancipated slave Andrew Beard was granted Patent No. 433,847 for his rotary engine invention.
1996:
The Birmingham Post-Herald published its first afternoon edition.
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1887:
Kelly Ingram, the first American soildier to die in World War I, was born in Pratt City.
1998:
Nearly 168,000 residents voted in the MAPS referrendum.
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