1893

1893 was the 22nd year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

Events

• The town of Highland was annexed into Birmingham.

Business

• The Birmingham Brewing Company went bankrupt.
• The Red Mountain Railroad Line closed.

Government

• February: The Avondale Fire Department was formed.

Sports

• February 22: The University of Alabama played football against the Agricultural and Mechanical College in Auburn for the first time, meeting in Birmingham at the Base Ball Park with A&M College winning 32-22.
• November 30: Alabama and what would become Auburn played for the second time, meeting at at Riverside Park in Montgomery, with Auburn winning 40-16.

Individuals

Births

• June 7: Gene Walker, motorcycle racer
• June 17: Coot Grant, blues singer

Deaths

• March 25: Abner Killough, former Jefferson County Sheriff

Works

Buildings

• Cathedral Church of the Advent
• Chalifoux Building
• East Lake United Methodist Church (damaged beyond repair, early 20th century)
• Lunsford Hotel
• United States Court House and Post Office (torn down, 1920s)

Context

In 1893, Thomas A. Edison finished construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Rudolf Diesel received a patent for the diesel engine. Grover Cleveland succeeded Benjamin Harrison as President. The Panic of 1893, a crash on the New York Stock Exchange, started a depression. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of murdering her parents. New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote. The World Parliament of Religions met in Chicago. Arthur Conan Doyle surprised the reading public by killing off his character Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem," published in Strand Magazine.

Notable books published in 1893 included Earth Revisited by Byron A. Brooks, Sub-Coelum by Addison Peale Russell, and Le Docteur Pascal by Emile Zola. Notable music released included "The Cat Came Back" by Henry S. Miller, "The Liberty Bell" by John Philip Sousa, "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder" by James M. Black, and Symphony No. 9 by Antonín Dvořák.

Notable births in 1893 included singer and comedian Jimmy Durante, actor Leslie Howard, actor Harold Lloyd, businessman Roy O. Disney, actress Mae West, writer Dorothy Parker, comedian Gummo Marx, and Chinese leader Mao Zedong. Notable deaths included former president Rutherford B. Hayes, Supreme Court justice Lucius Quintus Cincinatus Lamar, former Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard, actor Edwin Booth, painter Ford Madox Brown, baseball player Lip Pike, and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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