November 27

November 27 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2007: Homewood named Phil Dodd its Chief of Police.
2007: The Birmingham City Council revoked the Screening Room's business license.
1997: Willie James Ware's nomination to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit was withdrawn.
1986: Homewood High School's marching band made their third appearance in the New York Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
1954: The Alabama Gun Collectors Association was organized in Birmingham.
1951: The Club was reorganized as a non-profit to avoid bankruptcy.
1933: The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company put another furnace into blast at its Fairfield Works.
1903: The Commercial Club of Birmingham announced that it had commissioned Giuseppe Moretti to sculpt a "giant man" to represent Birmingham at the St Louis World's Fair.

Births

1953: Industrialist and civic booster Charlie Brown III was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1950: Baseball player Lyman Bostock Jr was born in Birmingham.
1886: City engineer A. J. Hawkins was born in North Birmingham.
1872: Slater School principal W. J. Echols was born in Senatobia, Mississippi.
1848: Methodist minister Leander Whitten was born in Lauderdale County.
1829: Elyton Land Company engineer William Barker was born in Georgia.

2021: Former Birmingham police chief Arthur Deutsch died.
2017: Pianist Walter Knapp died.
2015: Hardware dealer Vance McBride died.
2013: Reverend James Naughton, pastor of St Theresa Catholic Church in Leeds, died.
1993: Baseball player Millard Hayes died in Decatur, Georgia.
1949: Doctor Lloyd Noland died at the Fairfield hospital that bore his name.
1931: Real estate broker Sumter Bethea died in Birmingham.
1927: Labor organizer and negotiator William Fairley died in Ensley.

2011: Neil Callaway resigned as UAB football coach.
2009: Alabama scored a last-minute touchdown to win 26-21.
2006: Head football coach Mike Shula was fired by the University of Alabama.
1987: Auburn won the 1987 Iron Bowl 10-0.
1982: Auburn won the 1982 Iron Bowl 23-22 after losing the 9 previous matchups.
1976: Alabama won the 1976 Iron Bowl 38-7.
1975: The first Vulcan Run (then called the Bicentennial Run) was held.
1971: Alabama won the 1971 Iron Bowl 31-7.
1965: Alabama won the 1965 Iron Bowl 30-3.
1954: Auburn won the 1954 Iron Bowl 28-0.
1936: Boxer Izzy Jannazzo went the distance against Barney Ross in a welterweight title bout at Madison Square Garden.