February 8: Difference between revisions

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February 8 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2017: Jeff Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General of the United States.
2017: Publix opened a downtown supermarket at 20 Midtown.
2013: Ray Watts was named President of UAB.
2008: GreencupBooks held its grand opening.
1892: The town of Highland was annexed into Birmingham.
1862: A group of Federal gunboats under the command of Lieutenant Seth Phelps landed at Florence and destroyed stores and steamboats there.

Tara Gray, born February 8, 1979

1996: Olympia, a female giraffe born at the Birmingham Zoo.
1979: Television reporter Tara Gray was born in Birmingham.
1977: Former radio and television reporter Cyrondys Jackson was born in Birmingham.
1967: Basketball player Michael Ansley was born in Birmingham.
1958: Wrestler Sherri Martel was born in Birmingham.
1952: Protective Life CEO Johnny Johns was born in Gadsden.
1932: Bishop of Birmingham Raymond Boland was born in Ireland.
1926: Army aviator, police officer and computer programmer Rosamond McDuff was born in Birmingham.
1886: Birmingham Barons shortstop Roy "Slippery" Ellam was born in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
1867: Lieutenant Governor Henry Gray was born in Georgia.
1848: Jefferson County Treasurer Manoah Henry was born in Blount County.

2012: Former Brice Building Company CEO D. Riley Stuart died in Birmingham.
2000: Linebacker Derrick Thomas died from injuries suffered in an auto accident a month earlier.

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 [[Image:Tara Gray headshot.jpg|right|thumb|Tara Gray, born February 8, 1979]]
 ==Births==
+* [[1996]]: [[Olympia]], a female giraffe born at the [[Birmingham Zoo]].
 * [[1979]]: Television reporter [[Tara Gray]] was born in [[Birmingham]].
 * [[1977]]: Former radio and television reporter [[Cyrondys Jackson]] was born in [[Birmingham]].