November 24

November 24 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2021: Perry Computer at Brookwood Village closed.
2015: Willie Mays was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.
2013: Octane coffee opened in the Westin Birmingham at Uptown.
2005: A triple homicide was committed during a Thanksgiving Day robbery at the Airport Inn.
1991: "Red Mountain", a granite sculpture by Dimitri Hazni, was installed outside the Hugo L. Black Federal Courthouse.
1932: Louis Pizitz served 5,000 Thanksgiving meals to the needy at his downtown store.
1926: William Rushton Jr married Elizabeth Perry.
1911: A fire destroyed the plant of Roberts & Son, printers.
1903: Kelly Ingram joined the U.S. Navy.
1883: A mob broke Lewis Houston out of the Jefferson County Jail and lynched him from a pine tree in Capitol Park.
1874: George S. Houston succeeded David P. Lewis as Governor of Alabama

Logwood Goin, born November 24, 1873

Births

1993: Activist Shanté Wolfe-Sisson was born in Augusta, Georgia.
1946: Singer Linda Manning was born in Cullman.
1943: Chemist Margaret Tolbert was born in Suffolk, Virginia.
1939: Rock vocalist and guitarist Jim Yester was born in Birmingham.
1935: Former Million Dollar Band director James Ferguson was born in Columbus, Mississippi.
1917: Businessman Houston Brice Jr was born.
1909: Evangelist Lee Roberson was born in Southern Indiana.
1904: Gymnast Victor Josselyn was born in Taunton, Massachusetts.
1891: Radio critic Ben Gross was born in Birmingham.
1873: Physician Logwood Goin was born in Florence.

2010: Former elementary school principal Louis LeVaughn died.
2005: A triple homicide was committed during a Thanksgiving Day robbery at the Airport Inn.
1970: Baseball player Ivy Andrews died.

2017: Auburn won the Iron Bowl 24-10 at home.
2017: 2017 UAB Blazers football team finished their regular season 8-4 after beating Texas-El Paso at Legion Field.
2012: Alabama won the Iron Bowl 49-0 at home.
2007: Auburn won the Iron Bowl 17-10 at home.
2007: UAB Blazers lost 46-39 to Marshall in Huntingdon, West Virginia.
1984: The 10th annual Vulcan Run was held.
1978: UAB Blazers played their first-ever game men's basketball game, losing to Nebraska 64-55 before a crowd of 14,800 at the BJCC Coliseum.