1918

1918 was the 47th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

• February 12: Central High School burned down.
• The first Birmingham magazine was published.
• Tarrant City was incorporated.
• April 30: The Town of Wilton was incorporated.
• May 10: The formerly private East Lake Park was dedicated as a public park.
• Camp Winnataska was founded by the Birmingham Sunday School Association.
• October 7–12: 1918 Alabama State Fair
• October 9: The Lincoln Branch of Birmingham Public Library opened to black patrons
• October: The 1918 influenza pandemic hit Birmingham, causing hundreds of deaths.

Business

• January 1: The Connors Steel Company was organized.
• Joe Goldstein opened the first New Williams store on 3rd Avenue North
• Drilling of the vertical shaft Pyne Mine began.

Individuals

Births

Kathryn Tucker Windham

• February 22: Charlie Finley, Major League Baseball executive
• February 23: Jim Carlin, Major League Baseball player
• March 11: Lyman Bostock Sr, Birmingham Black Barons infielder
• March 12: Joseph Vath, Bishop of Birmingham
• March 13: John Rhoden, sculptor
• March 22: A. H. Woodward Jr, Woodward Iron Company executive
• May 6: Henrietta Boggs-MacGuire, First Lady of Costa Rica
• May 14: Wimpy Quinn, Major League Baseball player
• June 2: Kathryn Tucker Windham, writer and storyteller
• June 6: Jean Glenn, librarian
• June 14: Andrew Hodges, insurance executive and Operation New Birmingham president
• June 29: J. D. Hill, grocer
• July 25: Herman Frank Cash, truck driver and bombing suspect
• August 18: Hank Penny, musician and entertainer
• August 24: Marion Yester, dental prosthetist
• August 27: Jack Meyer, hotel executive
• September 1: James Martin, U.S. Representative
• September 9: Colonel Stone Johnson, Union leader, Civil Rights activist and guard
• October 21: Alvin Vogtle, CEO of Southern Company
• October 22: Harry Walker, Major League Baseball player and manager
• November 1: Arris Jebeles, restaurateur
• November 8: Michael Matsos, restaurateur
• November 2: Bill Cather, president of the A. H. Cather Publishing Company
• December 3: Marie Jemison essayist and Birmingham Public Library director
• December 11: Elmer Moree, school administrator
• Willie Brantley, voting rights activist
• Ken Faulkner, department store manager
• James Kidd Jr, president of Sunnyland Refining Company
• Charles Patrick, mail carrier, furnace worker and cook
• Joe Rhodes, police sergeant and chaplain
• J. P. Rotton Jr, wholesale grocer and racing promoter
• James Walbert, Gospel composer and arranger

Deaths

• Civil engineer William Merkel died.
• February 14: Writer John DuBose was killed in a railway accident.
• August 2: Infantry officer Mortimer Jordan III died from combat wounds at Sergy, France.
• October 9: Infantry lieutenant Orville Coston died from combat wounds near Cornay, France.
• October 14: Circus performer Elma Moore died from the "Spanish" influenza.
• October 18: Aviator Arthur Roberts was shot down over Issoudun, France
• November 14: Aviator John R. Williams was killed in a training accident near Salisbury, England.
• November 15: Plantation owner and Elyton Land Company partner William Nabers died.

Works

• "The Barricade" by George Bellows
• "Flags" by Theodore Butler
• October 15: The USS Osmond Ingram was laid down at Quincy, Massachusetts.

Context

1918

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