September 23: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 11:52, 11 January 2023

September 23 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2006: The first annual Taste of 4th Avenue Jazz Festival was held in conjuction with the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival.
2006: A plane crash during the Wings and Wheels Air Show in Calera killed pilot Clayton Reuse and two others.
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.
1964: US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black issued an order staying a decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama that part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was unconstitutional.

Emmet O'Neal, born September 23, 1853

2022: Artist Robin Metz died.
2014: Three people died in a shooting at the UPS Customer Center on Inglenook Lane.
2013: Electrician and landscape artist Tat Bailey died.
2010: Gastroenterologist Robert Slaughter died.
2006: Actor Tim Rooney died of dermatomyositis at his ranch in California.
2006: Pilot Clayton Reuse and two others were killed in a plane crash during the Wings and Wheels Air Show in Calera.
2001: The Jim Walter No. 5 Mine explosion resulted in the deaths of thirteen miners.
1978: Major League Baseball player Lyman Bostock Jr was murdered in Gary, Indiana.

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 ==Deaths==
+* [[2022]]: Artist [[Robin Metz]] died.
 * [[2014]]: Three people died in a shooting at the [[UPS Customer Center]] on [[Inglenook Lane]].
 * [[2013]]: Electrician and landscape artist [[Tat Bailey]] died.