1972

1972 is the 101st year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

Events

• The Homewood High School band is founded.
• First National Bank is renamed AmSouth Bancorporation
• Mary Kay Beard makes the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list
• St Elias Maronite Church hosts the 1972 National Apostolate of Maronites convention
• James C. Parsons named Birmingham Police Chief
• Joe Shannon retired from the U. S. Air Force
• Ralph M. Tanner succeeds Charles D. Hounshell as President of Birmingham-Southern College
• George Wallace shot on the campaign trail. Jere Beasley serves as acting governor
• Bull Connor defeated in re-election bid for the Alabama Public Service Commission.
• April 1: The original Tutwiler Hotel closed its doors.
• December 31: Bernard Kincaid weds Alfreda Harris

Business

• BE&K was founded.
• Trilogy Leather founded

Sports

• October: Alabama A&M beats Alabama State 8-7 in the Magic City Classic
• December 2: Auburn defeats Alabama with two blocked punts in the 1972 Iron Bowl
• Jimmy Means joins the Alabama Gang
• Richard Gilliam hired as Montevallo High School basketball coach.
• Eli Gold debuts as a sports announcer for the Mutual Broadcasting System
• Mel Allen is inducted into the Sportswriters and Broadcasters Hall of Fame

Graduations

• Kamau Afrika graduates from Parker High School
• David Cutcliffe graduates from Banks High School
• Larry Langford earns a degree in social and behavioral sciences from UAB
• Larry DeLucas earns a degree in chemistry from UAB
• Tobias Wolff earns a degree in English from Hertford College, Oxford
• David Cromwell Johnson earnes his juris doctorate from the Birmingham School of Law

Works

Buildings

• Birmingham International Airport Terminal Building
• July 22: Sloss Blast Furnace Site: 1st Avenue North is added to the National Register of Historic Places

Books

• Stay Hungry by Charles Gaines

Films and TV

• Fair Play, starring Phillip Alford
• The Erotic Adventures of Zorro and The Adult Version of Jeckyll & Hide, produced by David F. Friedman
• Kate Jackson appears in "The Rookies"

Songs

• "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", The Temptations, featuring Dennis Edwards
• "Black Tattler" / "Stop the Merry-Go-Round" & "Black Haze Express", Sam Dees
• ""I've Been Lonely for So Long." Frederick Knight, recorded by Neal Hemphill

Births

• Sandra Gregory, abducted lawyer

Deaths

• Clifford Stiles, owner of the Redmont Hotel from 1946.
• October 10: Tom Stewart, U. S. Senator (Tennessee)

See also List of Birmingham homicides in 1972

See Also

• 1971
• 1972 Birmingham Athletics
• 1973