1908

1908 was the 37th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

• April 24: The 1908 tornado kills 35 and injures 188 more along its 105 mile-long path.
• The original 16th Street Baptist Church building is condemned
• Architect Wallace Rayfield relocates his practice to Birmingham
• Local prohibition is enacted in the City of Birmingham
• Frank P. O'Brien succeeds George Ward as Mayor of Birmingham
• The Birmingham Art Club is founded
• The Brown Marx Building is expanded
• 1908 coal miners strike

Sports

• Carleton Molesworth begins managing the Birmingham Barons
• The University of Alabama and Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn) fail to agree on a meal stipend for players, thus ending their rivalry until the legislature required them to play each other again in 1948.

Buildings

• Elyton Elementary School
• Ensley High School
• The second Woodlawn City Hall

Births

• Augusta Williams
• April 20: Lionel Hampton

Deaths

• Benjamin F. Roden

Context

1908 was a leap year. It was the year that the Grand Canyon was made a National Monument. The Boy Scouts of America was founded by Lord Robert Baden-Powell. The first Model T rolled off the Ford Motor Co. assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan. The Cubs earned their most recent World Series victory over Detroit. Taft was elected President over William Jennings Bryan. And an earthquake in Sicily killed more than 75,000 people.

External links

• "Views of Birmingham, Alabama with a glimpse at some of the natural resources of the Birmingham District and industries based theron." published by Isidore Newman & Son, Bankers (New York, New Orleans) and copyrighted in 1908.