Alabama - Notable Historical Events
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Alabama - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1807-02-19 |
VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later acquitted |
1814-03-27 |
Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama |
1817-03-03 |
Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi |
1819-12-14 |
Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state |
1841-12-31 |
Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons |
1856-02-01 |
Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College. |
1856-03-09 |
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama |
1861-01-04 |
US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama |
1861-01-05 |
Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay |
1861-01-11 |
Alabama secedes from the Union (US Civil War) |
1861-02-08 |
Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War) |
1861-02-18 |
Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Alabama (US Civil War) |
1862-05-15 |
Confederate ship Alabama launched as the Enrica at Birkenhead, England, where she had been built in secret |
1863-01-11 |
Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras |
1863-06-05 |
CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic |
1863-09-05 |
Bread revolt in Mobile, Alabama |
1864-06-11 |
Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg |
1864-06-19 |
CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France |
1864-08-08 |
Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama |
1864-08-23 |
Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama |
1864-09-04 |
Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama |
1865-04-01 |
-9] Battle at Blakely Alabama |
1865-04-14 |
Mobile, Alabama is captured |
1867-04-01 |
Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama |
1868-02-24 |
1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama) |
1871-02-27 |
Meeting of Alabama claims commission |
1871-05-08 |
British-US treaty ends Alabama dispute |
1881-07-04 |
Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama) |
1883-02-23 |
Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law |
1890-10-15 |
Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham |
1894-07-16 |
Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners |
1907-12-20 |
Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91 |
1909-11-07 |
Knights of St Peter Claver founded in Mobile, Alabama; Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1922 |
1920-04-14 |
Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi |
1920-04-20 |
Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi |
1922-01-03 |
1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar |
1925-09-05 |
112 F (44°C), Centerville, Alabama (state record) |
1926-09-16 |
-22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372 |
1931-03-25 |
Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama |
1937-07-24 |
Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro |
1938-08-24 |
Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game |
1943-05-25 |
Riot at Mobile, Alabama, shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers |
1944-08-10 |
Race riots in Athens Alabama |
1946-04-13 |
Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham Alabama |
1948-05-01 |
Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes" |
1951-11-25 |
17 die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama |
1953-10-08 |
Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group |
1955-04-13 |
20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record) |
1955-11-03 |
Alabama woman bruised by a meteor |
1955-12-05 |
Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks |
1956-02-03 |
Autherine Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot |
1956-02-06 |
University of Alabama suspends African-American Autherine Lucy on the grounds that it can no longer provide a safe environment for her |
1956-02-15 |
Pirates & KC A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white |
1956-08-09 |
1st state-wide state-supported educational TV network, Alabama |
1956-11-13 |
US Supreme court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional |
1959-12-19 |
1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0 |
1961-05-14 |
Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama |
1961-05-20 |
White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama |
1961-10-31 |
Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal |
1963-01-14 |
George C Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!" |
1963-05-11 |
Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama |
1963-05-12 |
Race riot in Birmingham, Alabama |
1963-06-11 |
Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama |
1963-09-02 |
Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS |
1963-09-09 |
Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools |
1963-09-10 |
20 black students entered public schools in Alabama |
1965-03-07 |
Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma |
1965-03-21 |
Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama |
1965-05-30 |
Vivian Malone is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama |
1966-01-30 |
-27°F (-33°C), New Market, Alabama (state record) |
1967-02-07 |
A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people. |
1969-08-17 |
Hurricane Camille strikes US coastline and kills 259 people (mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana) |
1972-05-15 |
Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md |
1972-08-04 |
Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace |
1972-12-02 |
"December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama) |
1973-10-27 |
Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6 |
1973-12-31 |
40th Sugar Bowl: Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23 |
1975-03-22 |
A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels. |
1975-12-31 |
42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6 |
1977-06-22 |
Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison |
1979-09-12 |
Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23 million damage |
1979-10-30 |
Richard Arrington, Jr. is elected the first African American mayor in Birmingham, Alabama |
1980-01-01 |
Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship |
1982-04-29 |
17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Barbara Mandrell |
1982-08-05 |
Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager |
1982-12-29 |
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins) |
1983-01-17 |
Alabama Gov George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time |
1983-05-09 |
18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Willie Nelson |
1983-06-21 |
Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1983-10-10 |
17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
1984-05-14 |
19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama |
1984-10-08 |
18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
1985-05-08 |
20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Judds win |
1985-06-04 |
Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law |
1986-04-14 |
21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire |
1986-06-24 |
Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years |
1987-01-19 |
Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874 |
1987-01-26 |
14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama |
1987-05-21 |
Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama |
1989-04-10 |
24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama |
1991-07-10 |
L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13 |
1991-12-28 |
Blockbuster Bowl 2: Alabama beats Colorado, 30-25 |
1994-03-27 |
Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed |
1995-01-15 |
Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334 |
1996-09-28 |
Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama) |
1997-06-29 |
Tyrenda Williams, 18, of Alabama, crowned 40th America's Junior Miss |
1998-02-14 |
Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing. |
2001-08-01 |
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office. |
2002-05-22 |
American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. |
2003-03-18 |
FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives. |
2003-08-22 |
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. |
2007-03-01 |
Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama. |
2012-07-17 |
17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
2013-11-21 |
The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys |
2015-12-12 |
Heisman Trophy: Alabama running back Derrick Henry wins 2015 award |
2017-04-11 |
Alabama governor resigns, pleads guilty to misdemeanors |
2017-04-16 |
Four injured in shooting at Alabama church carnival |
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Alabama - Notable Birthdays
Alabama - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1847-01-20 |
W R Pettiford, Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank) |
1873-11-16 |
William Christopher Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues) (d. 1958) |
1888-10-09 |
Hank Patterson, Alabama, actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres) |
1901-12-20 |
Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist (Mobility of Gaseous Ions) |
1908-10-09 |
James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59) |
1912-10-03 |
Gabriel Julian, original pianist of Bobby Byrne Orchestra, arranger for Glenn Miller and founder Alabama Cavaliers Jazz Ens |
1913-02-04 |
Rosa Parks, Tuskegee Alabama, American civil rights activist (bus protestor) |
1913-02-14 |
Mel Allen, Birmingham Alabama, American sportscaster (voice of NY Yankees) |
1913-09-11 |
Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football coach (Alabama Crimson Tide) |
1914-05-13 |
Joe Louis, Lafayette Alabama, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49) |
1915-12-16 |
Turk Murphy, Alabama's Ghost |
1916-04-26 |
Virgil Trucks, Birmingham, Alabama, MLB picther (two-time All Star), (d. 2013) |
1917-03-11 |
Robert L Carter, Caryville, Florida, American civil rights activist and judge (Brown v. Board of Education, NAACP v. Alabama) (d. 2012) |
1918-06-02 |
Kathryn Tucker Windham, Stars Fell on Alabama |
1921-06-19 |
Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979- ) |
1922-03-18 |
Fred Shuttlesworth, Mount Meigs Alabama, American civil rights activist |
1923-01-05 |
Sam [Samuel] Phillips, Florence Alabama, record producer and founder of Sun Records (launched Elvis Presley's career) |
1926-04-28 |
Harper Lee, Monroeville Alabama, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird) |
1927-12-24 |
Milly Ericson, Crazy in Alabama |
1928-10-01 |
Ryszard Rydzewski, Alabama |
1929-10-05 |
Autherine Lucy, Shiloh, Alabama, 1st black to enroll in University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa |
1930-05-01 |
Norbert Kückelmann, Morgen in Alabama |
1931-05-06 |
Willie Mays, Westfield Alabama, baseball centerfielder (Giants, NY Mets), "Say Hey Kid" (660 HRs, MVP 1954) |
1932-09-11 |
Herbert "Sonny" Leon Callahan, (Rep-R-Alabama, 1985- ) |
1932-09-26 |
Clifton C Williams Jr, Mobile Alabama, Major USMC/astronaut |
1934-02-05 |
Henry 'Hank' Aaron, Mobile Alabama, baseball player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP) |
1936-12-03 |
Lee Roy Giles, Sweet Home Alabama |
1937-02-15 |
Terry Everett, (Rep-R-Alabama) |
1937-11-10 |
Albert Hall, Boothton Alabama, actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan's 4) |
1938-06-24 |
Don Mincher, Huntsville, Alabama, Major League Baseball first baseman, (d. 2012) |
1938-12-16 |
Jimmie Lee Jackson, Marion Alabama, American civil rights protestor |
1939-11-24 |
Jim Yester, Birmingham Alabama, rock vocalist/guitarist (Association) |
1939-12-17 |
Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker (Temptations-My Girl, Boogie Down) |
1941-01-03 |
Van Dyke Parks, Alabama, actor/musician (Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour) |
1941-03-18 |
Wilson Pickett, Prattville Alabama, R&B singer (Funky Broadway) |
1942-04-09 |
Earl F Hillard, (Rep-D-Alabama) |
1942-05-05 |
Tammy Wynette [Virginia Pugh], Redbay Alabama, country singer (Stand by your Man), (d. 1998) |
1942-10-12 |
Melvin Franklin, Montgomery Alabama, rocker (Temptations) |
1943-02-03 |
Dennis Edwards, Fairfield Alabama, lead singer of the Temptations ("Papa was a Rollin' Stone") |
1943-06-08 |
Willie Davenport, Troy Alabama, American bobsledder/hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1944-10-03 |
Bob Riley, American politician, governor of Alabama |
1944-9-04 |
Dave Bassett, Sweet Home Alabama |
1946-07-15 |
Tadeusz Majda, Alabama |
1946-12-25 |
Jimmy Buffet, Mobile Alabama, vocalist (Margaritaville) |
1947-04-02 |
Emmylou Harris, Birmingham Alabama, country singer (Together Again) |
1947-08-22 |
Bud Cramer, (Rep-D-Alabama) |
1947-09-10 |
Larry Nelson, Fort Payne Alabama, American golfer (three-time Major Championship winner) |
1949-01-30 |
William King, Alabama, soul trumpeteer (Commodores-Easy) |
1949-03-03 |
James S Voss, Cordova Alabama, Major USA/astronaut (STS 44, 53, 69) |
1949-06-20 |
Lionel Richie, Alabama, singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover) |
1949-08-27 |
Jeff Cook, Fort Payne Ala, country guitar/vocalist (Alabama-Mt Music) |
1949-11-14 |
Terry Lee Johnson, Alabama, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) |
1949-12-13 |
Randy Owen, Fort Payne Ala, country music star (Alabama-Mt Music) |
1949-12-13 |
Randy Owen, Alabama: American Farewell Tour |
1950-10-26 |
Deborah Duke, Sweet Home Alabama |
1951-10-25 |
Ransom Wilson, Tuscaloosa Alabama, flutist (Soliste NY) |
1952-01-22 |
Teddy Gentry, Fort Payne Ala, country music star (Alabama-Mt Music) |
1952-08-01 |
Tony Rizzoli, Sweet Home Alabama |
1954-01-25 |
Condredge Holloway, Alabama, CFL quarterback (Ottawa, Toronto) |
1955-05-11 |
Mark Herndon, Springfield Mass, country drummer (Alabama-Take Me Down) |
1956-10-17 |
Mae C Jemison, Decatur Alabama, MD/astronaut (STS 47) |
1958-07-17 |
Jerzy Luszcz, Alabama |
1958-10-27 |
Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit |
1958-11-24 |
Phillip Tolle, Alabama Sasquatch |
1959-07-12 |
Wiktor Trzeciak, Alabama |
1959-08-26 |
Kathryn P Hire, Mobile Alabama, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS 90) |
1960-06-05 |
Leslie Hendrix, Sweet Home Alabama |
1961-04-22 |
Jimmy Key, Huntsville Alabama, pitcher (Blue Jays, NY Yanks, Orioles) |
1961-06-03 |
Marta Szmigielska, Alabama |
1961-07-01 |
Carl Lewis [Frederick], Birmingham Alabama, sprinter and long jumper (Oly-9 gold-84-96) |
1963-02-20 |
Charles Barkley, Leads Alabama, NBA forward (Phoenix, Rockets, Oly-gold-96) |
1963-06-13 |
Jeff Brehaut, Mountain View CA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Alabama-3rd) |
1963-09-05 |
Dave Brantley, Florence Alabama, pitcher (Cin Reds) |
1964-06-15 |
Courteney Cox, Birmingham, Alabama, American actress (Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends) |
1965-04-09 |
Hal Morris, Fort Rucker Alabama, infielder (Cin Reds) |
1966-02-22 |
Resga Riggins, Trussville Alabama, Miss Alabama-America (1991) |
1967-12-10 |
Douglas J. Eboch, Sweet Home Alabama |
1969-06-22 |
Nahia Iparraguirre, Alabama |
1970-05-27 |
Deidee Deionne, Sweet Home Alabama |
1970-10-19 |
Benita Brooks, Miss Alabama USA (1996) |
1970-10-28 |
Watt Key, Alabama Moon |
1971-11-05 |
Erick Walder, Mobile Alabama, triple jumper |
1972-03-17 |
Mia Hamm, Selma Alabama, soccer forward (Olympics-96) |
1972-10-15 |
John D. Witherspoon, Sweet Home Alabama |
1973-08-29 |
Leigh Sherer, Jasper Alabama, Miss America (Alabama-Top 10-1996) |
1974-06-03 |
Alison McCreary, Florence Alabama, Miss America (Alabama-4th-1997) |
1974-11-18 |
Autumn Smith, Miss USA-Alabama (1997, top 10) |
1978-06-19 |
Mark Matkevich, Sweet Home Alabama |
1979-02-08 |
Tara Tucker, Miss Alabama Teen USA (1997) |
1979-05-29 |
Luann Roberts, Miss Alabama Teen USA (1996) |
1980-10-18 |
Colby Keller, Alabama Takedown |
1983-05-01 |
Dana Wasdin, Sweet Home Alabama |
1987-06-16 |
Diana DeGarmo, Birmingham, Alabama, American singer |
1996-9-24 |
Stella Banderas, Crazy in Alabama |
1998-03-27 |
Cyrus Thompson, Alabama Moon |
Alabama - Notable Weddings
Alabama - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1932-12-18 |
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (19) weds Raymond Parks (29) in Montgomery, Alabama |
1962-08-25 |
Retired general Colin Powell (25) weds audiologist Alma Johnson (24) at the First Congregational Church in Birmingham, Alabama |
2005-06-16 |
"American Idol" singer Bo Bice (29) weds Caroline Fisher at New Hope Presbyterian Church in Alabama |
2008-06-14 |
Country singer Sara Evans (37) weds former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker (35) in Franklin, Tennessee |
2008-10-25 |
Olympic gold medal-winning skier Picabo Street (37) weds John Reeser (31) on top of Alabama's Prospect Mountain in Hanceville |
Alabama - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1968-05-07 |
Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41 |
1983-01-26 |
Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69 |
1983-01-27 |
Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football coach (Alabama), dies at 69 |
1987-05-30 |
Turk Murphy, Alabama's Ghost |
1987-11-21 |
James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79 |
2010-07-21 |
Marta Szmigielska, Alabama |
2010-10-12 |
Deborah Duke, Sweet Home Alabama |
2011-06-12 |
Kathryn Tucker Windham, Stars Fell on Alabama |
2011-12-13 |
Milly Ericson, Crazy in Alabama |
2013-06-19 |
Tadeusz Majda, Alabama |
2014-02-28 |
Ryszard Rydzewski, Alabama |
2018-06-05 |
CM Newton, Kentucky, Alabama and SEC legend, dies at 88 |
