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==Events==
==Events==
* [[Joy Young's]] opens on [[20th Street North|20th Street]].
* [[January 1]]: The City of [[Fairfield]] was incorporated.
* [[Wallace Rayfield]] begins teaching at [[Industrial High School]]
* [[January 2]]: A [[List of snowfalls|rare snowfall]] brought 5.5 inches to Birmingham.
* [[J. Chris Hartsfield]] succeeds [[Thomas Batson]] as [[List of Sheriffs of Jefferson County|Sheriff of Jefferson County]]
* [[February 28]]: The [[USS Osmond Ingram]] was launched at Quincy, Massachusetts.
* [[Charles B. Williams]] succeeds [[James M. Shelborne]] as [[List of Samford University presidents|President of Howard College]].
* [[April 29]]: 22 miners were killed in the [[1919 Majestic Mine explosion]].
* [[Birmingham Flying Club]] founded.
* [[May 10]]: A [[1919 veterans parade|huge parade]] was held to welcome the returning veterans of [[World War I]]'s [[Rainbow Division]] recently arrived in [[Birmingham]].
* The [[Kiwanis Club of Birmingham]] hosts a national Kiwanis convention at the [[Tutwiler Hotel]].
* [[May 28]]: The Town of [[Boyles]] was incorporated.
* [[August 1]]: The [[Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta]] opened in the [[Jefferson County Bank Building]].
* October: [[Engine No. 4018]] was built at the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio
* The City of [[Fairfield]] was incorporated.
* The [[Kiwanis Club of Birmingham]] hosted a national Kiwanis convention at the [[Tutwiler Hotel (1914)|Tutwiler Hotel]].
* [[James Meissner]] founded the [[Birmingham Flying Club]] at [[Roberts Field]].
* [[Unity of Birmingham]] was founded as a prayer group led by [[Elsie Carr]].
* [[Birmingham City Schools]] began using the platoon system at [[South Highland School]].
* [[Alley School]] was closed for three years.


==Births==
===Business===
* March: The [[Preston Motors Corporation]] was reorganized.
* [[July 11]]: [[Britling Cafeteria]] held a grand opening at its flagship [[1st Avenue North]] location.
* [[Dixie Field]] opened as Birmingham's first airport.
* [[Marx Brothers]] coconut distributor was founded.
* The [[Trussville Furnace]] closed in the spring.
* The [[United Mine Workers of Alabama]] led a strike in [[Wylam]]
* [[Joy Young Restaurant]] opened on [[20th Street North|20th Street]].
* [[George Covollos|George]] and [[Annie Covollos]] closed the [[Wylam Cafe]] and moved downtown.
* [[ACIPCO]] acquired the [[Beggs Pipe Foundry]].
* [[Gail Joyce]] opened the [[Gail Joyce Motor Company]] on [[3rd Avenue North]].
 
== Sports ==
* The [[Birmingham Black Barons]] defeated the Atlanta Cubs for the Colored Southern Championship.
 
== Individuals ==
* [[Ottokar Cadek]] joined the New York String Quartet.
* [[Cliff Hare]] served as interim mayor of [[Auburn]].
* [[J. Chris Hartsfield]] succeeded [[Thomas Batson]] as [[Jefferson County Sheriff]].
* [[Thomas Kilby]] succeeded [[Charles Henderson]] as [[List of Governors of Alabama|Governor of Alabama]].
* [[Lonnie Noojin]] resigned as athletic director and baseball coach at the [[University of Alabama]] to join his brother's hardware business.
* [[Wallace Rayfield]] began teaching at [[Industrial High School]].
* [[Charles B. Williams]] succeeded [[James M. Shelborne]] as [[List of Samford University presidents|President of Howard College]].
 
===Births===
[[Image:George Wallace.jpg|right|thumb|325px|George Wallace in 1968]]
* [[January 15]]: [[Tod Griffin]], actor
* [[February 21]]: [[Louis Oberdorfer]], attorney
* [[March 2]]: [[Alpha Robertson]], educator
* [[March 17]]: [[Nat King Cole]], entertainer
* [[March 18]]: [[Joe Domnanovich]], football player
* [[April 1]]: [[Willie Patterson]], [[Birmingham Black Barons]] player
* [[April 25]]: [[Irene Jordan]], operatic soprani
* April 25: [[Don Cummings]], [[Tuskegee Airmen|Tuskegee Airman]]
* [[June 24]]: [[Nora Ezell]], quilter
* [[June 25]]: [[Cheater Sanfilippo]], speed shop owner
* [[June 29]]: [[Happy Wilson]], country singer
* [[August 14]]: [[Carl Salter]], artist
* [[August 25]]: [[George Wallace]], [[List of Governors of Alabama|Governor of Alabama]]
* [[August 28]]: [[Marvin Bass]], football coach
* [[September 5]]: [[Joseph Campbell]], ''[[Birmingham News]]'' editor
* September 5: [[Eason Balch]], attorney
* [[September 21]]: [[Marvin Harper]], preservationist
* [[September 23]]: [[Clettus Atkinson]], newspaper columnist
* [[September 24]]: [[Samuel Burr]], attorney
* [[October 4]]: [[A. E. Burgess]], highway contractor
* [[October 7]]: [[Bob Wood]], sporting goods dealer
* [[November 2]]: [[Sloan Bashinsky Sr]], business executive
* [[November 6]]: [[Benny Marshall]], sports columnist
* [[December 22]]: [[Aaron Aronov]], real estate developer
* [[Willie Clark]], railroad worker and civic volunteer
* [[Troy Ingram]], Klan leader and bomb maker
* [[Harry Lipson Jr]], University of Alabama marketing professor
* [[Ossie Ware Mitchell]], [[Birmingham Board of Education]] president
* [[George M. Murray]], Episcopal Bishop of Alabama
* [[George M. Murray]], Episcopal Bishop of Alabama
* March 17: [[Nat King Cole]]
* [[E. C. Overton]], optometrist and [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* August 25: [[George Wallace]]
 
* September 23: [[Clettus Atkinson]], ''[[Birmingham Post-Herald]]'' columnist
===Marriages===
* [[April 30]]: [[Elizabeth Pearson|Elizabeth Price Jones]] to [[John Pearson]].
* [[November 19]]: [[Esther Gelders|Esther Frank]] to [[Joseph Gelders]].
 
===Deaths===
* [[William Brown]], merchant
* [[January 2]]: [[John Hearst Miller]], Judge
* [[March 6]]: [[Hilary Herbert]], Secretary of the Navy
* [[March 26]]: [[Agnes Nicholson]], last person buried at [[Elyton Cemetery]]
* [[April 7]]: [[Margaret Ward]], called the "Mother of Birmingham"
* [[April 29]]:  22 miners were killed in the [[1919 Majestic Mine explosion]].
* April 29: [[Lizzie Molton]]
* [[April 30]]: [[Henry Gray]], former [[Lieutenant Governor of Alabama|Lieutenant Governor]]
* [[July 22]]: [[Edwin Taliaferro]], attorney
* [[September 30]]: [[Jean Galatoire]], chef and restaurateur
 
==Works==
===Books===
* ''[[City Plan of Birmingham]]'', Warren Manning & Associates
 
===Buildings===
* [[Birmingham Sash & Door]]
* [[William Given residence]]
* [[Premocar Factory]] on [[Vanderbilt Road]]
* [[Rainbow Viaduct]] over the [[Railroad Reservation]] at [[21st Street North|21st Street]].
* [[Lloyd Noland Hospital|TCI Employee's Hospital]] in [[Fairfield]]


==Context==
==Context==
1919 marked the end of [[World War I]] and saw the founding of the League of Nations. It was the year of the first Miss America pageant. Atatürk began the Turkish war of independence in 1919. The 18th amendment ([[Prohibition]]) was ratified and the 19th amendment (Women's suffrage) passed the legislature. The American Communist Party was established. The Cincinnati Reds were handed the World Series championship in the "Black Sox" scandal.
1919 marked the end of [[World War I]] and saw the founding of the League of Nations. It was the year of the first Miss America pageant. Atatürk began the Turkish war of independence in 1919. The 18th amendment ([[Prohibition]]) was ratified and the 19th amendment (Women's suffrage) passed the legislature. The American Communist Party was established. The Cincinnati Reds were handed the World Series championship in the "Black Sox" scandal.
Notable births in 1919 included novelist J. D. Salinger, actor Robert Stack, journalist Andy Rooney, comedian Ernie Kovacs, musician Ross Bagdasarian Sr, actor Red Buttons, actress Eva Gabor, musician Tennessee Ernie Ford, actor Jack Palance, musician Pete Seeger, singer Liberace, actress and dancer Betty Garrett, inventor Ed Yost, mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, economist James M. Buchanan, writer Frederik Pohl, and chemist William Lipscomb.  Notable deaths included former president Theodore Roosevelt, businessman Frank Winfield Woolworth, author L. Frank Baum, businessman Henry J. Heinz, businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, and painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
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Latest revision as of 08:34, 22 March 2024

1919 was the 48th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham and the 100th anniversary of Alabama's statehood.

Events

Business

Sports

Individuals

Births

George Wallace in 1968

Marriages

Deaths

Works

Books

Buildings

Context

1919 marked the end of World War I and saw the founding of the League of Nations. It was the year of the first Miss America pageant. Atatürk began the Turkish war of independence in 1919. The 18th amendment (Prohibition) was ratified and the 19th amendment (Women's suffrage) passed the legislature. The American Communist Party was established. The Cincinnati Reds were handed the World Series championship in the "Black Sox" scandal.

Notable births in 1919 included novelist J. D. Salinger, actor Robert Stack, journalist Andy Rooney, comedian Ernie Kovacs, musician Ross Bagdasarian Sr, actor Red Buttons, actress Eva Gabor, musician Tennessee Ernie Ford, actor Jack Palance, musician Pete Seeger, singer Liberace, actress and dancer Betty Garrett, inventor Ed Yost, mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, economist James M. Buchanan, writer Frederik Pohl, and chemist William Lipscomb. Notable deaths included former president Theodore Roosevelt, businessman Frank Winfield Woolworth, author L. Frank Baum, businessman Henry J. Heinz, businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, and painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

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