December 6

December 6 in the history of the Birmingham District:

• 2013: Fresh Value Marketplace opened in Trussville.
• 2010: African elephant Bulwagi arrived at the Birmingham Zoo.
• 2008: Several area cities and towns held their annual Christmas parades.
• 2006: Shoal Creek Mine was idled and 465 workers were laid off.
• 2006: The Wachovia Bank branch (opened in 1969 as the BTNB Eastwood branch) outside Eastwood Mall was closed and later demolished.
• 1965: Television station WBMG 42 went on the air.
• 1951: Radio station WNPT-AM in Northport went on the air.
• 1950: James Hatcher's Town & Gown Theater made its debut performance of "Born Yesterday" at the Temple Theater.
• 1918: Robert Brown was elected president of the American Association of Fairs and Expositions.
• 1890: R. W. Mustin and M. M. Fogle purchased property on 2nd Avenue North and 16th Street for the Iron City Steam Bottling Works.
• 1882: Banker T. L. Hudgins married the former Lucy Pope, his second wife.

Births

• 1992: Laptop, a southern white rhinoceros, was born at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas.
• 1980: Baseball player Ehren Wassermann was born in Sylacauga.
• 1980: LPGA golfer and Auburn Tigers women's golf coach Danielle Downey was born in Rochester, New York.
• 1975: Attorney and Miss Alabama 1998 Ashley Halfman was born in Birmingham.
• 1959: Lawrence Conaway was born.
• 1949: Racially-motivated murder victim Virgil Ware was born.
• 1927: Formal wear stores founder J. O. Tant Jr was born.
• 1904: Novelist Carlyle Tillery was born in Greensburg, Louisiana.

Deaths

• 2011: Artist Linda Kimbrough died.
• 1951: Hugo Black's first wife, Josephine, died after a long illness.
• 1910: Industrialist Henry F. DeBardeleben died.

Sports

• 1974: The Homewood City Council declared the day as Homewood Patriots Day in honor of Homewood High School's first football state championship.
• 1932: Boxer Izzy Jannazzo made his professional debut in a loss to Willie Miller.