September 23: Difference between revisions

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September 23 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2007: BSC Panthers won 37-7 at LaGrange College.
2006: The first annual Taste of 4th Avenue Jazz Festival was held in conjuction with the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival.
2006: Pilot Clayton Reuse and two others were killed in a plane crash during the Wings and Wheels Air Show in Calera.
2005: The Birmingham Post-Herald published its final edition.
2005: The 7th annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival was kicked off in the downtown Theatre District.
2004: The sixth annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival began.
2001: The Jim Walter No. 5 Mine explosion resulted in the deaths of thirteen miners.
1973: Sly & the Family Stone played a concert at Rickwood Field.
1964: Sears Vestavia Hills opened at Vestavia Mall.

2013: Electrician and landscape artist Tat Bailey died.
2006: Actor Tim Rooney died of dermatomyositis at his ranch in California.
2001: The Jim Walter No. 5 Mine explosion resulted in the deaths of thirteen miners.
1978: Prizefighter Michael Gibbons was born in Midfield.
1978: Major League Baseball player Lyman Bostock, Jr was murdered in Gary, Indiana.
1923: Teacher and minister Willie Spencer was born.
1919: Columnist Clettus Atkinson was born.
1853: Governor Emmet O'Neal was born in Florence, Lauderdale County.

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 * [[2001]]: The [[2001 Jim Walter No. 5 Mine explosion|Jim Walter No. 5 Mine explosion]] resulted in the deaths of thirteen miners.
 * [[1973]]: Sly & the Family Stone played a concert at [[Rickwood Field]].
+* [[1964]]: [[Sears Vestavia Hills]] opened at [[Vestavia Mall]].
 ==Births and deaths==