July 24

July 24 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2014: Birmingham Fire Station No. 4 in Oxmoor was dedicated.
2010: Thomas Robey won the second Iron City Chef competition.
2008: A family of four was found murdered in their burning house in Grasselli Heights.
1977: 3 miners were killed in the 1977 Chetopa Mine explosion.
1965: Robert Bentley married Dianne Jones.
1962: Judge Hobart Grooms issued an injunction against segregated service at the Dobbs House Flight Kitchen at Birmingham Municipal Airport.
1927: Mountain Brook's "Old Mill" opened as a tea room.
1918: Satchel Paige was sent to the Industrial School for Negro Children in Mount Meigs.
1913: Donald Kenney and Christopher Gustin died during an initiation ceremony at Birmingham Lodge No. 432, Loyal Order of Moose.
1888: The Little Belle Iron Company was incorporated.
1883: Alice Furnace No. 2 was blown in.

Bill Yearby, born July 24, 1944

Births

1955: Secretary of the U.S. Senate Ann Berry was born in Birmingham.
1950: BJCTA director Frank Martin was born in Nashville, Tennessee.
1944: Pro football player Bill Yearby was born in Birmingham.
1868: Physician Miles Copeland Sr was born in Wayne County, Indiana.
1854: Inventor, manufacturer, philanthropist and developer Robert Munger was born in Rutersville, Texas.