1908

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