October 26

October 26 in the history of the Birmingham District:

• 2014: The Dalai Lama gave a public address at Regions Field during a 4-day visit to Birmingham.
• 2007: Birmingham Police Chief Annetta Nunn announced that she would step down.
• 2005: Don Siegelman was indicted on charges of racketeering, bribery, and extortion.
• 2005: Richard Scrushy was indicted on charges of bribery and mail fraud.
• 1967: The first issue of UAB's Kaleidoscope was published.
• 1934: Baseball player Satchel Paige married his longtime sweetheart Janet Howard.
• 1921: President Warren Harding visited Linn Park as part of the Semicentennial of Birmingham celebrations.
• 1907: The Oxmoor Furnaces were idled.
• 1843: Robert W. Huffman married Sarah Noland in Gadsden.

Guy Snavely, born October 26, 1881

Births

• 1928: Governor Albert Brewer was born in Tennessee.
• 1921: BSC professor and Baileyton Mayor Paul Bailey was born.
• 1921: Peachtree City, Georgia mayor Frederick Brown Jr was born.
• 1881: Birmingham-Southern College president Guy Snavely was born in Antietem, Maryland.

Deaths

• 2011: Punter Greg Gantt died in Birmingham.
• 1950: Poet and writer Clement Wood died in Schenectady, New York.
• 1947: Filmmaker and Birmingham Pledge Foundation director Wade Black died.