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** [[1921 Fashion-Industrial Exposition]] was held at [[Linn Park|Capitol Park]].
** [[1921 Fashion-Industrial Exposition]] was held at [[Linn Park|Capitol Park]].
** [[October 24]], [[October 26|26]] and [[October 27|27]]: The "[[Pageant of Birmingham]]" was staged at [[Avondale Park]].
** [[October 24]], [[October 26|26]] and [[October 27|27]]: The "[[Pageant of Birmingham]]" was staged at [[Avondale Park]].
** [[October 25]]: [[1921 throwback game]] at [[Rickwood Field]]
** [[October 26]]: President Warren Harding [[1921 Presidential visit|visited Birmingham]].
** [[October 26]]: President Warren Harding [[1921 Presidential visit|visited Birmingham]].
* [[April 29]]: [[Birmingham Music Festival]] was held at the [[Jefferson Theater]].
* [[April 29]]: [[Birmingham Music Festival]] was held at the [[Jefferson Theater]].
* [[1921 West End tornado]]
* [[1921 West End tornado]]
* [[Jefferson County Department of Health]] officer [[Judson Dowling]] was abducted and beaten after he publicized health hazards at dairy farms.
* Floodwaters on [[Crooked Creek]] damaged the [[Clarkson Bridge]].
* A series of attacks attributed to an "[[Axe syndicate]]" continued to plague small shopkeepers.
* [[Parrish]] was incorporated.
* The property for [[Altamont Park]] was purchased by the City of Birmingham.
* The [[Birmingham Railway & Electric Company]] began operating Birmingham's first motor coaches.
* The [[Birmingham Railway & Electric Company]] began operating Birmingham's first motor coaches.
* [[Wilsonville Lodge No. 510]] was founded.
* [[Wilsonville Lodge No. 510]] was founded.
* [[Shades Valley Lodge No. 829]] was chartered.
* The [[Women's Missionary Union]] relocated its offices to Birmingham from Baltimore, Maryland.


===Business===
===Business===
* January: The ''[[Birmingham Post]]'' was launched by [[Ed Leech]] and Scripps-Howard.
* January: The ''[[Birmingham Post]]'' was launched by [[Ed Leech]] and Scripps-Howard.
* [[April 24]]: [[WSY-AM]] began broadcasting from a studio at 1921 [[Powell Avenue]].
* The [[Champion Theatre]] opened on [[18th Street North]].
* The [[Champion Theatre]] opened on [[18th Street North]].
* The [[Five Points Theatre]] opened on [[11th Avenue South]]
* The [[Five Points Theatre]] opened on [[11th Avenue South]]
* The [[Frolic Theatre]] opened on [[4th Avenue North]].
* The [[Frolic Theatre]] opened on [[4th Avenue North]].
* The [[Gay Theater]] opened on [[4th Avenue North]].
* The [[Gay Theater]] opened on [[4th Avenue North]].
* The [[Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company]] reorganized as the [[Birmingham Electric Company]].
* [[George Barber]] founded [[Barber's Dairy]].
* [[Norton's Florist]] opened.
* [[Norton's Florist]] opened.
* [[Dixie Store Fixtures]] was founded.
* [[Edmund Leach]] opened a [[Sterne Agee]] office in Montgomery.
* The [[Jefferson County Truck Growers Association]] was founded.
* The [[Jefferson County Truck Growers Association]] was founded.
* [[Thomas Brasfield]] founded the [[Brasfield & Gorrie|Thomas C. Brasfield Company]].
* [[U.S. Pipe]] switched its casting to the [[DeLavaud process]].
* [[U.S. Pipe]] switched its casting to the [[DeLavaud process]].
* [[Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company]] shut down its coal mine at [[Brookside]] following the [[1920 UMWA strike]].
* [[James McWane]] founded [[McWane Inc.]]
* [[Kirkman O'Neal]] founded [[O'Neal Industries|Southern Steel Works]].
* The [[Alabama Coal Operators Association]] was reorganized as the [[Alabama Mining Institute]].
 
====Disestablishments====
* [[Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company]] shut down its [[Brookside mine|coal mine]] at [[Brookside]] following the [[1920 UMWA strike]].
* The [[Birmingham International Raceway|Fairgrounds Race Track]] closed.


===Government===
===Government===
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===Buildings===
===Buildings===
* [[Morris Benson residence]] on [[17th Street South]]
* [[Georges Bridges residence]] in [[Edgewood]]
* [[First United Methodist Church]] administration building
* [[Five Points Theatre]]
* [[Five Points Theatre]]
* [[Holt High School]] in [[Tuscaloosa]]
* [[Hueytown High School]]
* [[Hueytown High School]]
* [[Jasper First United Methodist Church]]
* [[Jasper First United Methodist Church]]
* [[Jones Valley High School]]
* [[Jones Valley High School]] in [[Powderly]]
* [[Locust Fork High School|Locust Fork School]]
* [[Long-Lewis Ford]] showroom
* [[Long-Lewis Ford]] showroom
* [[Hugh Martin cottage]] on [[15th Avenue South]]
* [[Model Poultry Farm]] at [[Avondale Park]]
* [[Model Poultry Farm]] at [[Avondale Park]]
* [[Norwood Methodist Church]]
* [[Norwood Methodist Church]]
* [[Pinson School]]
* [[Preston Motors Plant No. 2]] in [[North Birmingham]]
* [[Robinson Elementary School]] addition
* [[Thompson High School]]
* [[Thompson High School]]
* [[Robert S. Vance Federal Building|United States Post Office and Federal Courthouse]] on [[5th Avenue North]]
* [[Robert S. Vance Federal Building|United States Post Office and Federal Courthouse]] on [[5th Avenue North]]
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== Individuals ==
== Individuals ==
* [[John Dawson]] succeeded [[Charles Williams]] as [[List of Samford University president|President of Howard College]].
* [[John Dawson]] succeeded [[Charles Williams]] as [[List of Samford University president|President of Howard College]].
* [[Charles Glenn]] succeeded [[John Phillips]] as Superintendent of [[Birmingham City Schools]].
* [[Clarence Going]] succeeded [[Charles Brown]] as principal of Birmingham's [[Central High School]].
* [[Mr Gordon]] succeeded [[Mennie Halliman]] as principal of [[Mortimer Jordan High School]].
* [[Fred McDuff]] succeeded [[Thomas Shirley]] as chief of the [[Birmingham Police Department]].


===Births===
===Births===
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* [[Alexander Jefferson]], Tuskegee airman
* [[Alexander Jefferson]], Tuskegee airman
* [[Rosemary Morse]], bookkeeper and trustee of [[Hargis Retreat]]
* [[Rosemary Morse]], bookkeeper and trustee of [[Hargis Retreat]]
* [[Emmet O'Neal II]], chairman of [[O'Neal Steel]]
* [[Emmet O'Neal II]], chairman of [[O'Neal Industries|O'Neal Steel]]
* [[Virginia Simpson]], socialite
* [[Virginia Simpson]], socialite
* [[Arthur Stewart]], portrait painter
* [[Arthur Stewart]], portrait painter
* [[Ian Sturrock]], bagpiper
* [[H. B. Thompson]], [[Gardendale Youth Baseball]] founder
* [[H. B. Thompson]], [[Gardendale Youth Baseball]] founder
* [[Thomas Tolbert]], [[Bessemer City Council]] member
* [[Thomas Tolbert]], [[Bessemer City Council]] member
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===Marriages==
===Marriages==
* [[February 23]]: [[Hugo Black]] married [[Josephine Black|Josephine Foster]].
* [[February 23]]: [[Hugo Black]] married [[Josephine Black|Josephine Foster]].
* [[May 11]]: [[Asa Rountree Jr]] married [[Cherokee Rountree|Cherokee Jemison Van de Graaff]]


===Deaths===
===Deaths===
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* [[August 11]]: Father [[James Coyle]] was murdered at the rectory adjoining [[St Paul's Cathedral|St Paul's Catholic Church]].
* [[August 11]]: Father [[James Coyle]] was murdered at the rectory adjoining [[St Paul's Cathedral|St Paul's Catholic Church]].
* [[December 22]]: Judge [[Oscar Hundley]] died after a long illness.
* [[December 22]]: Judge [[Oscar Hundley]] died after a long illness.
* [[December 30]]: Former [[Avondale]] mayor [[William Starbuck]] died.
* [[December 31]]: Five miners died in the [[1921 Docena Mine explosion]].
* Bookseller [[John B. Roden]] died.
* Bookseller [[John B. Roden]] died.
** See also: [[List of homicides in 1921]] and [[List of Birmingham homicides in 1921]]
** See also: [[List of homicides in 1921]] and [[List of Birmingham homicides in 1921]]

Revision as of 16:22, 22 September 2017

The Semicentennial of Birmingham was celebrated in 1921.

1921 was the 50th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

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