2009

2009 is the 138th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

Events

• January 27: 2009 State of the City address
• February 3: APT's For the Record aired its final program
• March 6 - 8: Over 45,000 people attended the Davis Cup first round matches at the BJCC
• September 11 - 12: Artwalk was held in the Loft District

Business

• January 29: Lite Box Gallery opened
• February 7: Frigid Records opened
• March 6: Bromberg's downtown store closed
• April 20: Ezell's Catfish Cabin opened in Trussville
• Creig Hoskins resigned from Giattina Aycock Architecture Studio to found his own firm.
• Bodine was sold to DeKalb Office of Atlanta, Georgia.

Sports

• March 6-8: The 2009 Davis Cup first round tie was held at the BJCC Arena.
• April 25: Brad Keselowski won the Aaron's 499 at the Talladega Superspeedway.
• May 1-3: Mat Mladin won the Honda Superbike Classic.
• May 13-17: Keith Fergus won the Regions Charity Classic.
• May 16: The fourth annual Birmingham Zoo Run was held.
• May 20-24: LSU won the 2009 SEC Baseball Tournament at Regions Park.
• May 27: The 2009 Rickwood Classic was held at Rickwood Field.
• June 1-5: The 2009 National Veterans Golden Age Games were held at the BJCC.
• November 27: The 2009 Iron Bowl was held at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Individuals

• February 1: Tom Bradley retired as Hoover's fire chief and was succeeded by Chuck Wingate.

Awards

• Derrick Thomas was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Deaths

• January 1: Henry Stanford, former Birmingham-Southern College president
• January 9: Chuck Morgan, former Civil Rights attorney
• January 12: Gage Bush Englund, former principal dancer with the Birmingham Civic Ballet
• January 20: Joe Domnanovich, football player
• January 25: Martin Bell, Episcopal priest
• January 30: Guy Hunt, former Governor of Alabama
• February 4: Thomas Corts, former President of Samford University
• February 10: Kirkwood Balton, former CEO of Booker T. Washington Insurance Company
• February 14: Carole Samuelson, former Jefferson County Health Officer
• February 14: John Evins, former president of Hart-Greer, appliance distributors
• February 19: Dan Holliman, biologist and Birmingham-Southern College professor
• February 26: Harry Ford, retired Air Force Colonel and former Tuskegee Airman
• February 27: Paul Bailey, former BSC professor and Mayor of Baileyton
• February 28: Jimmy Lee, Jr, former CEO of Buffalo Rock Company
• March 5: Bill Ireland, former Vulcan Materials executive and philanthropist
• March 7: Ken Owens, architect
• March 7: Bill Waites, Chief of the Pleasant Grove Police Department
• March 10: Jack Granata, sculptor and art professor
• March 27: Roberta Alison Baumgardner, tennis player
• March 28: Walter Palmer, Tuskegee Airman
• April 5: Jim Dearth, former CEO of Children's Hospital
• April 5: Angela Hernández, former math department chair, University of Montevallo
• April 20: Delores Manyama, Carver High School English teacher
• April 21: Miriam Witherspoon, attorney and Birmingham City Council member
• April 24: Marvin Harper, Northport preservationist
• May 6: Nina Miglionico, attorney and former Birmingham City Council president
• May 19: Randy Sandford, architecture enthusiast and documentarian
• May 25: Steve Zaslofsky, headmaster of Shelby Academy
• May 26: James Travis, Tuskegee Airman
• May 29: Charles Wagner, Lutheran pastor
• June 3: Joseph Cunningham, pathologist
• June 7: James Walbert, pianist, composer and teacher
• June 10: Barry Beckett, pianist and music producer
• June 10: Richard Quick, Auburn Tigers swimming coach
• June 11: Jack Trawick, convicted murderer
• June 14: Lillie Fincher, educator and community leader
• June 16: Marian Ann Dowdell Woods, librarian, widow of Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr
• June 22: Bert Bank, World War II veteran and Tuscaloosa radio executive
• June 23: Bill Holdefer, former UAB surgeon and professor and medical director for MEDjet
• June 24: Jamie, Birmingham Zoo gorilla
• June 28: Iola Baylor, high school coach
• June 29: Robert Miller, former Episcopal Bishop of Alabama
• July 2: Don Cummings, Tuskegee Airman
• July 2: Trieu Duong, jeweler
• July 3; John Blackburn, former University of Alabama administrator
• July 4: Billy Pappas, hot dog vendor
• July 11: Paul Hemphill, newspaper columnist and author
• July 12: Mildred Howard, founder of the Gospel Harmonettes
• July 16: Ray Woodard, soccer coach
• July 19: Sister Mary Joseph, co-founder of the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery
• July 23: Camille Baird, aviator
• July 24: Kevin Peasant, Elmwood Cemetery salesman.
• July 30: Joel Smith, newspaper publisher
• August 12: Gladys Gillem, professional wrestler and lion tamer
• August 18: Leven Hazlegrove, chemist and Samford University professor.
• August 22: Alfred Habeeb, pioneering anesthesiologist
• August 24: John Holcomb, Jr, long-time president of Britling Cafeterias.
• September 2: Dolly, cheetah at the Birmingham Zoo
• September 18: Robert Adams, Birmingham News photographer

See also List of Birmingham homicides in 2009 and List of homicides in 2009

Works

Buildings

• Aveda Institute in Hoover
• Bank of Tuscaloosa Plaza in Tuscaloosa
• Birmingham Fire Station No. 22/10 in Avondale
• Major addition to Birmingham Parking Authority Deck 3
• Glenbrook at Oxmoor Valley
• Hallman Hill in Homewood
• Inverness Country Club clubhouse
• Jefferson County Bessemer Justice Center
• Southside Residence Inn on 20th Street South
• Aldi on Crestwood Boulevard
• Reed-Harvey Park in Center Point
• New South Tower at Shelby Baptist Medical Center
• Tuscaloosa Intermodal Facility

Books

• April 21: Outcasts United, Warren St John

Film and television

• Brüno, feature film with segments shot in the Birmingham area.
• "Auburn Football: Every Day", Auburn ISP Sports Network
• "Final Broadcast", public access animation program
• "The First 48", A&E network program with segments featuring Birmingham Police Department homicide investigators

See Also

• 2009 Birmingham Barons
• 2009 City Stages
• 2009 Iron Bowl
• 2009 SEC Baseball Tournament
• 2009 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
• 2009 UAB Blazers football

Context

US Airways Flight 1549 made a miraculous landing on the Hudson River. Barack Obama became President of the United States. The Packers defeated the Cardinals 27-23 in Super Bowl XLIII. Australian bushfires killed 173. Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama was rescued after five days as a Somali pirate hostage. The spread of H1N1 flu was deemed a global pandemic.

Deaths in 2009 included those of Beatrice Arthur, Jack Kemp, Dom DeLuise, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Walter Cronkite.

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