2019

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Sunset view of the activity building and plaza at One Pratt Park

2019 was the 148th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

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Sports

The Birmingham Iron played their sole season in 2019.

Individuals

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Larry Langford
Art Clarkson
Gip Gipson

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Context

In 2019, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris was grievously damaged by fire. Massive wildfires raged across arctic areas. President Trump was impeached in the U.S. House of Representatives. White supremacist mass shooters killed dozens of people at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas and at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. A Global Climate Strike was held on September 20. On December 31 the United States Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq was stormed by militants.

Notable deaths in 2019 included those of actors Danny Aiello, René Auberjonois, Diahann Carroll, Carol Channing, Tim Conway, Doris Day, Albert Finney, Peter Fonda, Rutger Hauer, Peter Mayhew, Luke Perry, Rip Torn and John Witherspoon; architects Phil Freelon, Florence Knoll, I. M. Pei and Stanley Tigerman; baseball manager Frank Robinson; cartoonist Gahan Wilson; composers Michel Legrand and André Previn; director John Singleton; former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi; former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe; fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld; federal reserve chair Paul Volcker; industrialists David Koch and T. Boone Pickens; journalist Cokie Roberts; musicians Ginger Baker, Dick Dale, Marie Fredriksson, João Gilberto, Mark Hollis, Daniel Johnston, Keith Flint, Eddie Money, Art Neville, Jessye Norman, Ric Ocasek, Mac "Dr John" Rebennack, and Leon Redbone; novelists Toni Morrison and Herman Wouk; poet Mary Oliver; politicians John Conyers, Elijah Cummings, John Dingell, Kay Hagan, and H. Ross Perot; puppeteer Carroll Spinney; restaurateur Leah Chase; and scientists Wally Broecker and Murray Gell-Mann.

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