1982

1982 was the 111th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

• WTTO-21 went on the air as the city's first independent television channel.
• WBRC-6 began receiving network programming by satellite feed.
• The Church of the Advent was designated the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.
• Miriam Shehane founded the Victims of Crime and Leniency advocacy group in Montgomery.
• The Karl C. Harrison Museum of George Washington was founded in Columbiana.
• Organist Tom Helms resumed annual Halloween performances of the Phantom of the Opera at the Alabama Theatre.

Business

• Birmingham Trust National Bank became SouthTrust Bank.
• BE&K moved its corporate headquarters to Inverness.
• Colonial Bank acquired the Exchange National Bank of Birmingham.
• Larry Langford was hired as community relations director for Birmingham Budweiser.
• The Screening Room adult cinema opened.
• New York Pizza opened in the Edgewood Business District.
• City Hotels, Inc., operator of the Holiday Inn-Medical Center, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
• The Homewood Library purchased the former Homewood Chuch of Christ to serve as its new home.
• Joe Lee founded Lee's Buildings and Sheet Metal in Moody.

Sports

• The Alabama Magic of the American Football Association went 6-4 in their only season.
• The Birmingham South Stars of the Canadian Hockey League played a sole season.
• The BJCC hosted the 1982 Mideast regional Semifinals and finals of the NCAA college basketball tournament. The 4th-seeded UAB Blazers upset top seed Virginia 68-66 in the round of sixteen, then lost to 3rd-seed Louisville in the regional final.
• Eli Gold began hosting NASCAR Live on the Motor Racing Network.
• Marvin Warner founded the Birmingham Stallions for the new United States Football League.
• Bobby Allison won the Daytona 500.

Works

• Strange Celestial Road, album by Sun Ra

Buildings

• Hewitt-Trussville High School
• The Empire Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places

People

Births

• February 20: Baseball player Kerri Fair
• March 7: Baseball player Austin Tubb

Awards

• Nell Carter won an Emmy for her starring role in NBC's televised version of Ain't Misbehavin'.
• Mike Anderson graduated from the University of Tulsa.
• Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, 15 inductees

Deaths

• June 8: Satchel Paige, baseball player

See also: List of Birmingham homicides in 1982

Context

In 1982

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