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* [[January 10]]: 5 miners were killed in the [[1923 Dolomite No. 1 Mine explosion]]. | * [[January 10]]: 5 miners were killed in the [[1923 Dolomite No. 1 Mine explosion]]. | ||
* February: A massive ice storm hit the region. | * February: A massive ice storm hit the region. | ||
* [[July 12]]: 5 miners were killed in the [[1923 Sloss No. 1 Mine accident]]. | |||
* [[William Brandon]] succeeded [[Thomas Kilby]] as [[Governor of Alabama]]. | * [[William Brandon]] succeeded [[Thomas Kilby]] as [[Governor of Alabama]]. | ||
* [[F. A. Gallup]] succeeded Mr Carmichael as principal of [[Woodlawn High School]]. | * [[F. A. Gallup]] succeeded Mr Carmichael as principal of [[Woodlawn High School]]. |
Revision as of 21:53, 8 August 2010
1923 was the 52nd year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.
Events
- January 10: 5 miners were killed in the 1923 Dolomite No. 1 Mine explosion.
- February: A massive ice storm hit the region.
- July 12: 5 miners were killed in the 1923 Sloss No. 1 Mine accident.
- William Brandon succeeded Thomas Kilby as Governor of Alabama.
- F. A. Gallup succeeded Mr Carmichael as principal of Woodlawn High School.
- Oscar Underwood completed his second term as Senate Minority Leader.
- Thomas Shirley succeeded J. Chris Hartsfield as Jefferson County Sheriff.
- James Falkner succeeded Andrew Jackson as Shelby County Sheriff.
- The Birmingham Little Theater was founded by Bernhard Szold.
- Girl Scouts began holding summer camps at Camp Winnetaska.
- Hugo Black joined the Ku Klux Klan at a rally at Edgewood Park.
- The USS Birmingham light cruiser was decommissioned.
- The Alabama Girls’ Technical Institute and College for Women in Montevallo was renamed Alabama College, State College for Women.
- Solomon Katz became rabbi of Temple Beth-El
- John Canepa founded St John's Catholic Church in East Lake
- Birmingham Community Chest was founded.
- The Birmingham Park and Recreation Board was established.
- Birmingham voters prohibited private jitney services by public referendum.
- Minor High School graduated its first class.
- Shades Cahaba High School graduated its first class.
- The Women's Auxiliary of the Jefferson County Medical Society was founded.
- George Ward purchased the land for his Vestavia estate.
- Engine No. 4018 was sold to the St Louis and San Francisco Railway.
- The North Alabama Methodist Conference met at Ensley First United Methodist Church.
- Frank Hartley Anderson married Martha Fannin Fort.
Business
- City Stores Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania purchased a majority stake in Loveman, Joseph & Loeb.
- Alabama Power Company hired Maria Whitson as its first female engineer.
- Giuseppi Moretti bought a marble quarry near Sylacauga.
- WSY-AM relocated its broadcast studio to the Loveman's Building.
- David O. Whilldin established his own architectural office.
- Birmingham Ornamental Iron (Meadowcraft) was founded.
- Magic City Foods (Golden Flake) was founded.
- The TCI division of U.S.S. Corp. opened a merchant steel mill in Fairfield.
- Douglas Arant joined the law firm of Bradley, Baldwin, All & White.
- Lonnie Noojin and his brother founded the Noojin Supply Company.
Sports
- Charlie Brown coached his final season for the BSC Panthers football team.
- Harris Cope coached his final season for the Samford Bulldogs football team.
- Female members of the Birmingham Country Club founded a women's golf tournament.
Works
- The steamship City of Birmingham was christened
- Art Work of Birmingham, Ala. was published by the Gravure Illustration Company of Chicago, Illinois
Buildings
- Belvedere Theatre
- Bessemer Colored High School
- Bush Middle School
- Druid City Hospital
- Henry Neely Dam (impounding Lake Neely Henry)
- Lake Purdy Dam (impounding Lake Purdy)
- Mitchell Dam (impounding Lake Mitchell)
- North Birmingham Elementary School
- Phillips High School
- Simpson Building (Simpson Preparatory School) at Birmingham-Southern College)
- St Stanislaus Catholic Church
- Tuscaloosa Country Club
- ground was broken for Negro High School (now A. H. Parker High School)
- ground was broken for Norwood Elementary School
Individuals
Births
- March 22: Temple Tutwiler II
- April 20: Mother Angelica, founder of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery and EWTN.
- April 20: Gip Gipson, blues musician and owner of Pine Hill Cemetery and Gip's Place.
- June 11: Bill Edmonds, civil engineer
- July 21: Bill L. Harbert, construction executive
- August 22: Louis Willie, insurance executive
- September 23: Willie Spencer, Methodist minister
- October 28: Tom King, attorney and state senator
- November 3: John Rice, Jr, Presbyterian minister
- November 30: Maxie Bryant, environmental activist
- December 3: Bill Ireland, industrialist
- December 24: David Friedman, exploitation film producer
- James Armstrong, barber
- S. Richardson Hill, president of UAB
- Mac Fleming, history teacher
- John E. Moore, civil leader in Dayton, Ohio
- Thomas Stubbs, state senator
- Merritt Stoves, Civil Rights watchman
- 1920-23: Mildred Howard, gospel vocalist
Deaths
- August: A. J. Dickinson, Baptist minister
- August 19: Anna Harper, wife of cartoonist Hubert Harper, in a seaplane accident in Santa Rosa, Florida
- October 29: Jack Nabors, baseball player
- Thomas McDonald, Birmingham Police Chief
- R. S. Munger, industrialist
- Thomas Duke Parke, physician
Awards
- Ida Moffett graduated from Alliance High School
- Douglas Arant graduated from Yale Law School.
Context
1923 saw the first issue of TIME magazine. Vladimir Lenin resigned from chairmanship of the Soviet government. Yankee Stadium opened its doors. The Irish Civil War ended. Mount Etna erupted. Calvin Coolidge assumed the office of President Warren G. Harding after his death. Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by an earthquake. Turkey became a republic. The Walt Disney Company was founded. Adolf Hitler failed an attempt to overthrow the German government and Vladimir Zworykin filed the first patent for a color television transmitter/receiver.
People born in 1923 include record producer Sam Phillips; writers Paddy Chayefsky, Italo Calvino, Norman Mailer, and James Dickey; pilots Chuck Yeager and Alan Shephard; television personalities Bob Barker and Ed McMahon; photographer Diane Arbus; mime Marcel Marceau; actor Charleton Heston; model Bettie Page; guitarist Albert King; coach Ara Parseghian; diplomat Henry Kissinger; boxer Rocky Marciano and singer Hank Williams.
1923 deaths included those of President Warren Harding; actors Wallace Reid and Sarah Bernhardt; physicist Wilhelm Roentgen, revolutionary Pancho Villa; and engineer Gustave Eiffel.
William Yeats won the 1923 Nobel Prize for literature. Le Corbusier published his Vers une architecture. Buster Keaton's feature film "Our Hospitality" was released. Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs and The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne were published. Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton made their first recordings. The Canton Bulldogs won the NFL championship. The Yankees defeated the Giants in the World Series. Bobby Jones won the U. S. Open and "Zev" won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.
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