August 5

August 5 in the history of the Birmingham District:

• 2016: CAP executive director Teresa Thorne retired.
• 2014: Bo Johnson took over the Clay City Council seat vacated by Mark Halstead.
• 2006: Matilda, the Bessemer hen who held the Guinness Book of World Records title holder for "World's Oldest Chicken" was memorialized at a special "broken perch" ceremony during the annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Magicians, held at the Hilton Perimeter Park Hotel.
• 1996: The Birmingham Post-Herald published its first afternoon edition.
• 1995: Lucy's Coffee & Tea opened in its present location.
• 1977: WKXX-FM "Kicks 106" debuted with a Top 40/Album Rock format.
• 1963: Martin Luther King Jr, Ray Charles, James Baldwin, Joey Adams and Joe Louis shared a stage at Miles College.
• 1890: Inventor and emancipated slave Andrew Beard was granted Patent No. 433,847 for his rotary engine invention.
• 1822: John McWhorter succeeded Levi Reid as Jefferson County Sheriff.

Hamilton Cleverdon, born August 5, 1989

Births

• 1989: Composer Hamilton Cleverdon was born.
• 1939: Filmmaker Bob Clark was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 1906: Architect Lawrence Whitten was born in Anderson, South Carolina.

Deaths

• 1897: Attorney and land speculator Ellis Phelan died in Waterbury, Connecticut.