March 14

March 14 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2019: Pink played at Legacy Arena.
2018: Students and faculty at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and some other schools participated in the National School Walkout to protest gun violence.
2014: Surin & Company at Concord Center closed.
2008: OmegaCon at the Sheraton Birmingham began.
2008: A Navy plane crashed during a training flight in rural St Clair County, killing two Marines.
2007: The Birmingham Design Review Committee narrowly approved the request for a demolition permit for the Birmingham News building (1917).
1988: Construction of the Eastwood Festival Centre caused a landslide that damaged a portion of Mountain Top Apartments above the site.
1955: The Communications Workers of America began a 9-state, 72-day strike against Southern Bell.
1946: The Melba Theater opened on 2nd Avenue North.
1914: Homewood's Union Missionary Baptist Church was formed by merger of Healing Springs Baptist Church and Walnut Street Baptist Church.
1914: Barker School was destroyed by a fire in the boiler room.
1909: Highlands United Methodist Church held their first service in their new building on Five Points South.
1888: Rufus Rhodes published the first edition of The Evening News.

Births

2011: Former NYPD detective Butch Ridley died.
2010: Tuscaloosa Police Department bomb-sniffing dog Jessi died of a stroke.
2005: Alabama School of Fine Arts teacher and Birmingham Festival Theatre co-founder Randy Marsh died of throat cancer at UAB Hospital.
2001: Poet and novelist Anne George died during heart surgery in Birmingham.
1988: Wrestling manager Saul Weingeroff died in Nashville, Tennessee.
1942: Former Governor of Alabama Bibb Graves died in Sarasota, Florida
1942: Former Jefferson County Sheriff E. L. Higdon died in Tuscaloosa.
1882: Music teacher Frank Pfaffenschlaeger died.