September 23

September 23 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2023: "Now and Forever," stained glass windows by Kerry James Marshall, were dedicated at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
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.
1936: Civil rights activist and Communist Party organizer Joseph Gelders was abducted, beaten and flogged after a meeting of the International Labor Defense in Birmingham.

Emmet O'Neal, born September 23, 1853

Births

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.