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==Sports== | ==Sports== | ||
* [[Carleton Molesworth]] begins managing the [[Birmingham Barons]] | * [[Carleton Molesworth]] begins managing the [[Birmingham Barons]] | ||
* The [[University of Alabama]] and [[Auburn University|Alabama Polytechnic Institute]] (Auburn) fail to agree on a meal stipend for players, thus ending their rivalry until the legislature required them to play each other again in [[1948 Iron Bowl|1948]]. | |||
==Births== | ==Births== | ||
Revision as of 10:55, 20 July 2006
1908 was the 37th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.
Events
- The original 16th Street Baptist Church building is condemned
- Architect Wallace Rayfield relocates his practice to Birmingham
- Local prohibition is enacted in the City of Birmingham
- Frank P. O'Brien succeeds George Ward as Mayor of Birmingham
- The Birmingham Art Club is founded
- The Brown-Marx building is expanded
- 1908 coal miners strike
Sports
- Carleton Molesworth begins managing the Birmingham Barons
- The University of Alabama and Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn) fail to agree on a meal stipend for players, thus ending their rivalry until the legislature required them to play each other again in 1948.
Births
- Augusta Williams
- April 20: Lionel Hampton