March 1

March 1 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2016: 2016 primary elections were held.
2016: Mary Bowers Field was dedicated at UAB.
2016: The Peanut Depot moved to the Parkside District.
2014: Mark Crosswhite succeeded Charles McCrary as CEO of Alabama Power.
2013: Octane coffee opened in Homewood.
2010: Allen Farley retired as Assistant Sheriff of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
2008: Hispanic real estate firm Casa Latino held a grand opening in Pelham.
2006: Rob Henrikson was appointed CEO of MetLife, Inc.
2005: Mac Underwood was promoted to General Manager of the Birmingham Water Works.
2002: The Concord Center was dedicated.
1997: The Essex House was imploded.
1996: The City of Chelsea was incorporated.
1987: The Homewood Public Library opened in it new location in the former Homewood Chuch of Christ building.
1976: Birmingham Parking Authority Deck 3 opened.
1965: Yeilding's opened a store at Vestavia Hills Mall.
1960: Ted Tibbs became the organist at Southside Baptist Church.
1959: The USS Birmingham (CL-62) was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
1900: A predecessor of the No. 7 Wylam-Bush Hills streetcar line began operating between Birmingham and Owenton (Birmingham-Southern College).
1874: Free School, Birmingham's first public school, opened.
1821: The Presbytery of Alabama was formed at Cahawba with 147 communicants in the state.

George Ward, born March 1, 1867

Births

1990: Basketball player Ronald Nored Jr was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1962: Football coach Jim McElwain was born in Missoula, Montana.
1956: Chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Sue Bell Cobb was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
1953: U.S. Senator Luther Strange was born.
1947: Accountant and embezzler Tom Hinson was born.
1899: Restaurateur Loo Choy was born in Canton (Guangzhou), China.
1878: Joseph Zinszer was born in Louisivlle, Kentucky.
1867: Mayor of Birmingham George Ward was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1864: Birmingham Barons manager Harry Vaughn was born in Ruraldale, Ohio.

1984: Oil company executive J. Bryan Whitworth married former Miss America Donna Axum.
1932: Architect Wallace Rayfield married Bessie Fulwood Rogers.

2021: Former UAB Gospel Choir director Kevin P. Turner died.
2020: Psychology professor and activist Mable Anderson died.
2010: Author Barry Hannah died in Oxford, Mississippi.
2005: Businessman Houston Brice Jr died.
1982: Civic booster Temple Tutwiler II died.
1950: Civil rights activist Joseph Gelders died in San Francisco, California.
1948: Newspaper editor and Birmingham City Commission member John Hornady died in Rome, Georgia.
1920: U. S. Senator John H. Bankhead died.