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* The [[University of Alabama]] football team went 5-2-1 in [[Thomas Kelley]]'s last year as coach. | * The [[University of Alabama]] football team went 5-2-1 in [[Thomas Kelley]]'s last year as coach. | ||
* | * The [[1917 Birmingham Barons]] finished 3rd in the [[Southern Association]] with a record of 87-66. | ||
==Buildings== | ==Buildings== |
Revision as of 21:31, 28 April 2008
1917 was the 46th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.
Events
- The Civitan Club was founded in Birmingham.
- Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company acquires furnaces in Gadsden.
- Glenn Messer joins the U. S. Army Signal Corps, Aviation section.
- Books-A-Million founded as a newsstand in Florence.
- The unfinished Roden Hotel is dismantled and sold for scrap.
- Nathaniel A. Barrett elected mayor on anti-immigration platform.
- Kiwanis Club of Birmingham founded.
- 1917 Presbyterian General Assembly held in Birmingham.
Sports
- The University of Alabama football team went 5-2-1 in Thomas Kelley's last year as coach.
- The 1917 Birmingham Barons finished 3rd in the Southern Association with a record of 87-66.
Buildings
Births
- January 24: Avery Parrish
- April 7: R. G. Armstrong
- April 26: Virgil Trucks
- July 3: Piper Davis
- August 7: Marguerite Johnston Barnes
- October 30: Bobby Bragan
- November 24: Houston Brice, Jr
- John W. Kirklin
- Worcy Crawford
Deaths
- October 16: Kelly Ingram, the first US enlisted serviceman killed in WWI.
Context
1917 was the year that the United States declared war on Germany, entering "The Great War" (World War I). "Our Lady of Fatima" was sighted by three children in Portugal. 300 acres of the city of Atlanta burned in that city's "Great Fire" on May 21. The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded. Scott Joplin, Edgar Degas, and Auguste Rodin all died in 1917.
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