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==Events==
==Events==
* [[February 12]]: [[Central High School]] burned down.
* [[February 12]]: [[Central High School]] burned down.
* The first ''[[Birmingham magazine|Birmingham]]'' magazine was published.
* [[May 2]]: Aviator [[James Meissner]] scored his first aerial kill, earning the Distinguished Service Cross and the Croix de Guerre.
* [[May 10]]: The formerly private [[East Lake Park]] was dedicated as a public park.
* [[May 19]]: The [[Steel Cities Chemical Company]] Ensley plant was destroyed by fire.
* [[Camp Winnataska]] was founded by the [[Birmingham Sunday School Association]].
* [[October 7]]–[[October 12|12]]: [[1918 Alabama State Fair]]
* [[October 7]]–[[October 12|12]]: [[1918 Alabama State Fair]]
* [[October 9]]: The [[Booker T. Washington Library|Lincoln Branch]] of [[Birmingham Public Library]] opened to black patrons
* October: The [[1918 influenza pandemic]] hit Birmingham, causing hundreds of deaths.
* October: The [[1918 influenza pandemic]] hit Birmingham, causing hundreds of deaths.
* [[December 3]]: [[Linn Park|Capitol Park]] was renamed in honor of President [[Woodrow Wilson]].
* [[Sunnyside Academy|Powderly Elementary School]] was destroyed by fire.
* The [[Labuco Post Office]] was established.


===Business===
===Business===
*   
* [[January 1]]: The [[Connors Steel Company]] was organized.
* [[Joe Goldstein]] opened the first [[New Williams]] store on [[3rd Avenue North]]
* [[Lauren Bloch]] bought the [[Parisian]] department store.
* Drilling of the vertical shaft [[Pyne Mine]] began.
* [[Rob Dawson|Rob G.]] and [[Roy Dawson|Roy. A. Dawson]] founded [[Dawson Bros.|Dawson Bros. Cycling Co.]]
* Construction of the [[Alabama Byproducts Corporation|North Birmingham By Products Coke Oven Plant]] began.
* [[Jefferson Peek]] sold the [[Rye-Ola|Rye-Ola Company]] to [[Ben Barbour]] and [[Harry Speaker]].
* The [[Motlow Distilling Company]] closed in advance of national prohibition.
* [[Union State Bank|First National Bank of Pell City]] was renamed [[Union State Bank]].
* The [[Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Company]] was forced into receivership.
* The ''[[Wide-Awake]]'' ceased publication.
* [[Thompson's Cafeteria]] opened in the [[Nabers, Morrow & Sinnige building]] on [[20th Street North]].
* The [[Southern Railroad]] opened a [[Railroad Fuel Company]] coal mine in the vicinity of [[Parrish]].
* The architectural firm of [[Salie and Mewhinney]] split.
* [[James Forman]] joined the firm of [[Burr & Forman|Percy, Benners & Burr]].
 
== Education ==
* [[May 30]]: The Birmingham College and Southern University were merged into [[Birmingham-Southern College]].
 
== Government ==
* [[April 30]]: The [[Wilton|Town of Wilton]] was incorporated.
* [[Tarrant|Tarrant City]] was incorporated.
* The [[Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta]] was established.
* The [[Jefferson County Medical Milk Commission]] was established.


== Sports ==
== Sports ==
*
* The [[Alabama Crimson Tide football team]] did not play due to [[World War I]].


== Individuals ==
== Individuals ==
*
* [[March 9]]: [[LeRoy Percy]] joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
* [[July 24]]: [[Satchel Paige]] was transferred from [[Councill School]] to the Industrial School for Negro Children in Mount Meigs for shoplifting and truancy.
* [[September 1]]: [[Joseph Ware]] succeeded [[Wilmer Poyner]] as rector of [[St Andrew's Episcopal Church]].
* [[December 6]]: [[Robert Brown]] was elected president of the American Association of Fairs and Expositions.
* [[Jacob Mendelsohn]] succeeded [[A. Feinsilver]] as rabbi of [[Knesseth Israel Congregation]].
* [[W. A. Withington]] succeeded [[T. J. Cason]] as [[Mayor of Leeds]].
* [[James T. Miller]] succeeded [[David Pegues Jr]] as pastor of [[Trinity Methodist Church (Southside)]].
* [[Wallace Wade]] began his coaching career at Fitzgerald and Clarke Military School in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
* [[William McQueen]] became was named president of the [[Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company]].
* [[Ted Brownell]] was elected president of the newly-organized [[Birmingham Motor Trades Association]].


===Births===
===Births===
*
[[File:Sammy Lowe.jpg|right|thumb|Sammy Lowe, born May 14, 1918]]
[[File:Kathryn Tucker Windham.jpg|right|thumb|Kathryn Tucker Windham, born June 2, 1918]]
* [[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
* May 14: [[Sammy Lowe]], jazz trumpeter and arranger
* [[May 16]]: [[Joseph Eaton Jr]] [[World War II]] bomber pilot
* [[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
* [[September 29]]: [[Sherman Kao]], restaurateur
* [[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 6]]: [[G. Reid Doster]], [[Alabama Air National Guard]] commander
* [[December 11]]: [[Elmer Moree]], school administrator
* [[Willie Brantley]], voting rights activist
* [[Sara Clark]], attorney and law professor
* [[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
 
===Graduations===
* [[Clarence Allgood]] graduated from [[Ensley High School]].
* [[Blanche Dean]] earned a teaching certificate at [[Valparaiso University]].
* [[Luther Patrick]] completed his law degree at the [[University of Alabama School of Law]].


===Marriages===
===Marriages===
*
* [[June 6]]: [[Emilu Bailes|Emilu Fox]] married [[George Bailes Sr]].


===Deaths===
===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 [[1918 influenza pandemic|"Spanish" influenza]].
* [[October 18]]: Aviator [[Arthur Roberts]] was shot down over Issoudun, France
* [[October 25]]: [[M. C. Martin]] and [[William Mimms]] died in a rock fall at the [[Eureka No. 4 Mine]].
* [[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==
==Works==
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===Buildings===
===Buildings===
*  
* [[Sardis school]] was established in [[Gardendale]]
 
* [[Gorgas Steam Plant]] second unit
* [[Viola Roden-Redin residence]] at 1256 [[33rd Street South|Whitaker Street]]


==Context==
==Context==

Latest revision as of 11:41, 3 December 2023

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

Events

Business

Education

Government

Sports

Individuals

Births

Sammy Lowe, born May 14, 1918
Kathryn Tucker Windham, born June 2, 1918

Graduations

Marriages

Deaths

Works

Books

Buildings

Context

1918

Notable births in 1918 included . Notable deaths included

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