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==Events==
==Events==
* February: A section of [[Lane Park]] on the west side of Cahaba Road was dedicated pauper's cemetery.
* The town of [[Highland]] was annexed into Birmingham.
* The town of [[Highland]] was annexed into Birmingham.
* [[Ben M. Jacobs]], a volunteer observer, began recording [[Weather Forecast Office Birmingham|daily weather observations]] (except on Sundays).
* [[Arthur W. McGaha]] succeeded [[Benjamin Franklin Riley]] as [[List of Samford University presidents|president of Howard College]].


===Business===
===Business===
* May: The [[Birmingham Commercial Club]] was founded as a general businessmen's association.
* [[August 2]]: [[AmSouth Bank|First National Bank of Birmingham]] failed.
* [[N. E. Barker]] succeeded [[William Cameron]] as president of First National Bank of Birmingham.
* [[October 9]]: First National Bank of Birmingham resumed operations.
* November: The [[Tutwiler Coal, Coke and Iron Company]] was founded.
* The [[Birmingham Brewing Company (1889)|Birmingham Brewing Company]] went bankrupt.
* The [[Birmingham Brewing Company (1889)|Birmingham Brewing Company]] went bankrupt.
* [[Jere Dennis]] served as president of the [[Birmingham Trades Council]].
* The [[Red Mountain Railroad Line]] closed.
* The [[Red Mountain Railroad Line]] closed.


=== Government ===
=== Government ===
* February: The [[Avondale Fire Department]] was formed.
* February: The [[Avondale Fire Department]] was formed.
* The [[9th Congressional District of Alabama]] was created.
* [[Samuel Ullman]] became president of the [[Birmingham Board of Education]].
===Religion===
* [[Joshua H. Foster, Jr]] succeeded [[Arthur W. McGaha]] as [[List of pastors of Ruhama Baptist Church|pastor of Ruhama Baptist Church]].
* [[Burghard Steiner]] succeeded [[Jacob Fies]] as president of [[Temple Emanu-El]].


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===Sports===
===Sports===
* [[February 22]]: The [[1893 Alabama Crimson Tide|University of Alabama]] played football against the [[1893 Auburn Tigers|Agricultural and Mechanical College in Auburn]] for [[1893 Iron Bowls|the first time]], meeting in Birmingham at the [[Lakeview ball grounds|Base Ball Park]] with A&M College winning 32-22.
* [[February 22]]: The [[1893 Alabama Crimson Tide|University of Alabama]] played football against the [[1893 Auburn Tigers|Agricultural and Mechanical College in Auburn]] for [[1893 Iron Bowls|the first time]], meeting in Birmingham at the [[Lakeview ball grounds|Base Ball Park]] with A&M College winning 32-22.
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== Individuals ==
== Individuals ==
[[Image:Gene Walker.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Gene Walker]]


===Births===
===Births===
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* [[June 17]]: [[Coot Grant]], blues singer
* [[June 17]]: [[Coot Grant]], blues singer


<!-- === Graduations ===
=== Graduations ===
* [[John H. Bankhead, II]] with a law degree.
* [[William Bankhead]] from the [[University of Alabama]].
* [[James Bray]] from Atlanta University.
* [[Hugh Morrow (senator)|Hugh Morrow]] from the [[University of Alabama]] with a bachelor of arts.
 
===Marriages===
* [[November 25]]: [[Laura Burton]] to steamboat captain Chesley Thomas Bartee.
* [[Thomas Duke Parke]] to the former Amy Smith.


===Marriages=== -->
===Deaths===
===Deaths===
* [[March 25]]: [[Abner Killough]], former [[Jefferson County Sheriff]]
* [[March 25]]: [[Abner Killough]], former [[Jefferson County Sheriff]]


==Works==
==Works==
[[Image:1893 Birmingham Post Office.jpg|right|thumb|U.S. Court House & Post Office under construction in 1892]]
===Books===
* ''History of the Baptists in Alabama'' by [[Benjamin Franklin Riley]]


===Buildings===
===Buildings===
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* [[Lunsford Hotel]]
* [[Lunsford Hotel]]
* [[United States Court House and Post Office]] (torn down, 1920s)
* [[United States Court House and Post Office]] (torn down, 1920s)
== Gallery ==
Drawings published in 1893:
<gallery>
Image:Paul Hayne School.jpg|[[Paul Hayne School]]
</gallery>


==Context==
==Context==

Revision as of 10:39, 22 May 2012

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

Events

Business

Government

Religion

Sports

Individuals

Gene Walker

Births

Graduations

Marriages

Deaths

Works

U.S. Court House & Post Office under construction in 1892

Books

Buildings

Gallery

Drawings published in 1893:

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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