June 12: Difference between revisions

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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.

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.
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.

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 ==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.