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* [[January 17]]: [[Agnes]] gallery, after 77 exhibitions and working with over 75 artists, closed. | * [[January 17]]: [[Agnes]] gallery, after 77 exhibitions and working with over 75 artists, closed. | ||
* [[Adam Stocks]] purchased [[WFHK-AM]] for a reported $275,000. | |||
===Sports=== | ===Sports=== | ||
Revision as of 16:19, 16 May 2009
2001 was the 130th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.
Events
- January 17: Agnes gallery, after 77 exhibitions and working with over 75 artists, closed.
- Adam Stocks purchased WFHK-AM for a reported $275,000.
Sports
- Brian Shoop's BSC Panthers won the NAIA national championship in baseball
Works
- 3rd Faze's self-titled debut album was released.
Buildings
- Colonial Brookwood Village renovations (including Gus Mayer interiors)
- Bright Star Restaurant bar addition
- Fraternal Order of Police Birmingham Lodge No. 1
- Magnolia Hills golf course
- Spain Park High School
- August: Blount Hall
Roads
- April 19: Lakeshore Parkway extension from Shannon Wenonah Road to Alabama State Highway 150
People
- Arthur Price succeeded Christopher Hamlin as Pastor of 16th Street Baptist Church.
Deaths
- Arthur Stewart, portraitist
- January 4: John Rhoden, sculptor
- April 8: Jimmy Hill, Pleasant Grove grocer
- May 19: Musician and teacher Barbara Dorough Thomas
- July 10: baseball player Al Lary
- September 8: disc jockey Walter Anglin
- September 11: Birmingham natives Lynn Edwards Angell and Bill Godshalk, during the terrorist attacks.
- September 17: Bubba Church, baseball player
- See also List of Birmingham homicides in 2001
See Also
| 2000s |
| << 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 >> |
| Births - Deaths - Establishments - Events - Works |