December 16

December 16 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2019: The permanent building for the Church of the Highlands Fultondale campus opened.
2014: Little Italy's Pies & Pints opened in 5 Points South.
2008: Fire heavily damaged the former Bibb County Junior High School in Centreville.
2003: Margaret Tutwiler became Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. State Department.
2000: Eleven people were killed by the 2000 Tuscaloosa tornado.
1989: Circuit Court Judge Robert Vance was killed by a mail bomb.
1985: Robert Slaughter was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the U.S. Army Reserve.
1944: Labor leader Asa Trammell was wounded in action in Europe during World War II.
1907: 57 miners were killed in the 1907 Yolande Mine explosion.
1898: President William McKinley visited Tuskegee Institute at the invitation of Booker T. Washington.
1887: The New York Model Bakery opened on 22nd Street South.
1864: Major Edmund Rucker was wounded and captured by Union forces at the Battle of Nashville.
1847: Reuben Chapman succeeded Joshua L. Martin as Governor of Alabama.

Elenaor Bridges, born December 16, 1899

Births

1987: 2011 Birmingham Barons pitcher Hector Santiago was born in Newark, New Jersey.
1980: Josh Vasa was born in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1940: Alabama legislator John Rogers was born.
1936: Auburn/NFL center Jackie Burkett was born in Thorsby.
1921: Birmingham Black Barons star Frank Evans was born in Linden, Marengo County.
1899: Artist and civic activist Eleanor Bridges was born in Columbus, Georgia.
1864: Buffalo Rock founder Sid Lee was born in Monroe County, Mississippi.