August 6

August 6 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2022: The John Looney House in Ashville was damaged by fire.
2020: The University of Alabama renamed Nott Hall as Honors Hall.
2019: A major fire damaged the Hawthorne at Wisteria apartment complex in Hoover.
2009: Joyce Vance was confirmed as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama.
2007: The Lipscomb City Coalition was organized.
2005: The second-annual Southern Heritage Festival opened at Kelly Ingram Park.
1999: The 1999 Birmingham Heritage Festival began.
1999: The Alabama Baptist State Convention Youth Evangelism Conference began at the BJCC.
1994: The Rolling Stones' "Voodoo Lounge" tour played at Legion Field.
1965: President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1925: Governor William Brandon commuted the death sentences of Odell and Pearl Jackson, convicted in the 1920s axe murders.
1905: Urban folklore claims Hazel Farris killed her husband, three policemen, and a deputy sheriff in Kentucky.
1887: The Magic City Guards were formally disbanded.

Virginia Foster Durr, born August 6, 1903

Births

1976: Railroad Park director Camille Spratling was born in Birmingham.
1968: Alabama running back Siran Stacy was born in Geneva (Geneva County).
1938: Barber, Circuit clerk and gospel singer Shotgun Giddens was born in Oldfield, Talladega County.
1909: Baseball player Al Veach was born in Maylene.
1903: Activist Virginia Foster Durr was born in Birmingham.
1876: Inventor Miller Reese Hutchison was born in Baldwin County.
1875: Attorney Moses Ullman was born in Natchez, Mississippi.
1830: Birmingham founder William Nabers was born in Jefferson County.

1971: Bobby Allison won the Myers Brothers 250 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.