November 25

The November 25, 1933 edition of the Birmingham Age-Herald.

November 25 in the history of the Birmingham District:

• 2012: Auburn University fired Gene Chizik.
• 1992: Auburn head coach Pat Dye announced his retirement a day before the 1992 Iron Bowl.
• 1990: Fire Stations No. 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19 and 22 were added to the National Register of Historic Places.
• 1970: The Allman Brothers played a UAB SGA-sponsored show at the Oporto Armory.
• 1960: The first Jack's Hamburgers in Homewood held its formal grand opening.
• 1957: Construction of the Lewis Smith Dam was begun.
• 1940: The Birmingham-based 106th Observation Squadron was called to active duty in advance of World War II.
• 1939: Birmingham activist Idyl King Sorsby was interred at Oak Hill Cemetery.
• 1910: The 1910 Banner Mine explosion killed three men.
• 1887: Water piped from Roebuck Springs began filling East Lake.
• 1840: Mill operator John Westbrook married Elizabeth Ann Lamberth in Tallapoosa County.
• 1829: Gabriel Moore succeeded John Murphy to become the 5th Governor of Alabama.
• 1825: John Murphy succeeded Israel Pickens to become the 4th Governor of Alabama.

Births

• 1933: Baseball player and USPS driver Cleophus Brown was born in Bradford.
• 1898: Photographer P. H. Polk was born in Bessemer.
• 1863: Surgeon William Elias B. Davis was born in Trussville.
• 1850: Weekly Iron Age publisher and Mayor of Birmingham Frank Evans was born in Cape Fear, North Carolina.

Deaths

• 2008: Dentist and ski resort developer Thomas Brigham died in Birmingham.
• 1974: Former Dodgers pitcher Eddie Dent died in Birmingham.
• 1956: Former Tutwiler Hotel manager Coleman Hudson died in Alexandria, Louisiana.
• 1910: Three men were killed in a Thanksgiving Day explosion at the Banner Mine.

Sports

• 2006: The UAB Blazers lost 31-22 to Central Florida in Orlando.
• 1988: Auburn won the Iron Bowl 15-10.
• 1892: Auburn defeated Georgia Tech 26-0.