June 12

June 12 in the history of the Birmingham District:

• 2006: Brian Shoop was announced as the UAB Blazers new baseball coach.
• 2004: Birmingham Steeldogs 56 - Green Bay Blizzard 54 at the BJCC Arena.
• 1999: David Arquette married Courteney Cox at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California.
• 1999: Do It Yourself Crafts opened.
• 1997: The Birmingham Barons played the Chattanooga Lookouts in the second annual Rickwood Classic at Rickwood Field.
• 1996: Birmingham Barons 3 - Memphis Chicks 2 in the first Rickwood Classic at Rickwood Field.
• 1982: Alabama Magic 28 - Tallahassee Statesmen 0 at Anniston.
• 1971: Samuel P. Pettagrue, Jr became pastor of Sardis Missionary Baptist Church.
• 1963: Christian Century first published Martin Luther King, Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail.
• 1891: Charles Swinney demonstrated a hot air balloon at Lakeview Park.
• 1873: The first victim of Birmingham's 1873 cholera epidemic, a visitor from Huntsville, fell ill.

Births and deaths

• 2011: Storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham died in Selma.
• 2010: Sorrel, a red panda, was born at the Binder Park Zoo near Battle Creek, Michigan.
• 1946: U. S. Senator John H. Bankhead, II died.
• 1930: Actor Jim Nabors was born.
• 1917: Contractor John Baird was born.
• 1892: Educator and naturalist Blanche Dean was born in Clay County.
• 1878: Birmingham Police Detective Paul Cole was born.
• 1842: Madame Louise Wooster was born in Tuscaloosa.