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==Events==
==Events==
* [[January 2]]: The ''[[USS Birmingham (CL-62)]]'' was decommissioned.
* [[June 26]]: The [[1947 Dairy Month Parade]] was held in [[downtown Birmingham]].
* [[June 26]]: The [[1947 Dairy Month Parade]] was held in [[downtown Birmingham]].
* The [[Alabama State Fair Authority]] was established by the [[Alabama Legislature]] as a successor to the [[Alabama State Fair & Exhibit Association]].
* [[September 9]]: The [[Birmingham City Commission]] purchased right-of-way in front of [[Woodlawn Methodist Church]] for widening of [[1st Avenue North]].
* [[Arthur Shores]] filed the first legal challenge to Birmingham's [[segregation ordinances|segregated zoning laws]] on behalf of [[Samuel Mathews]].
* [[August 18]]: The home of [[Samuel Mathews]] in [[North Smithfield]] was targeted by a [[List of racially-motivated bombings|racially-motivated bombing]].
* [[November 11]]: Birmingham put on the nation's first [[Veterans Day]] celebration.
* The North American Numbering Plan went into effect, giving Alabama the [[Area code 205|205 area code]].
* The North American Numbering Plan went into effect, giving Alabama the [[Area code 205|205 area code]].
* The [[Birmingham Children's Theatre]] was founded.
* The [[Birmingham Children's Theatre]] was founded.
* [[Fultondale]] was incorporated.
* The [[City of Birmingham]] acquired the [[Alabama State Fairgrounds]] property.
* [[Mulga]] was incorporated.
* The [[Federated Women's Club]] purchased the former [[Clubhouse on Highland|W. S. Brown residence]] on [[Highland Avenue]].
* [[Trussville]] was incorporated.
* Birmingham won a Jaycees' National Safety Award for its "[[Vulcan's torch|Light for Life]]" road safety beacon (Vulcan's neon torch).
* [[James Sulzby Jr]] founded the [[Alabama Historical Association]].
* The American Heritage Foundation canceled the "[[American Freedom Train#1940s Freedom Train|Freedom Train]]"'s planned visit to Birmingham due to local [[segregation ordinances]].
* [[Epp Sykes]] donated the copyright to his song, "[[Yea Alabama!]]" to the [[University of Alabama]].
* The [[Robert R. Meyer Foundation]] was established.
* The [[Birmingham Audubon Society|Birmingham Bird Club]] became the [[Birmingham Audubon Society|Birmingham Branch of the National Audubon Society]].
* The [[Southern Negro Youth Congress]] was labeled as "subversive" by U.S. Attorney General Thomas C. Clark.


===Business===
===Business===
* The [[Birmingham Electric Company]] began using "streamlined" PCC-type streetcars.
* [[January 2]]: "[[The Club]]" was incorporated.
* The [[Alhambra Restaurant]] opened on [[5th Avenue North]].
* The [[Birmingham Electric Company]] began using 47 new PCC-type streetcars.
* [[Busch's Jewelers]] purchased [[Brackin's]].
* [[Busch's Jewelers]] purchased [[Brackin's]].
* [[Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company]] began manufacturing slag wool at its [[North Birmingham Furnaces]].
* [[Citizens Trust Bank]] joined the Federal Reserve.
* [[La Paree]] was incorporated.
* [[Charles Byrd]] purchased [[George Ward]]'s former [[Vestavia (estate)|Vestavia]] estate and converted it into a restaurant.
* [[Emmett Ware]] purchased the 270-acre [[William Reed residence|Spring Lake Farms]] from [[Robert Jemison Jr]] and developed the [[Twin Lakes]] subdivision around it.
* The [[St Louis–San Francisco Railway]] acquired the assets of the [[Muscle Shoals, Birmingham & Pensacola Railroad]].
* [[Alabama Fuel & Iron]] purchased the [[Swann & Co. Building]] for its headquarters offices.
* The [[Shades Mountain Country Club]] lost its state liquor license.


====Establishments====
====Establishments====
[[File:Vestavia Roman Rooms.jpg|right|thumb|125px|The "Roman Rooms" restaurant at George Ward's former Vestavia estate opened in 1947.]]
* [[Alabama Historical Association]] was founded.
* [[Belcher Evans Millwork]] was founded.
* [[Belcher Evans Millwork]] was founded.
* [[Cobb Theatres]] was founded.
* [[Cobb Theatres]] was founded.
* The [[College Theatre]] opened in [[East Lake]].
* The [[College Theatre]] opened in [[East Lake]].
* [[Newman Waters]] opened the [[Downtown Club]].
* [[Newman Waters]] opened the [[Downtown Club]].
* The [[Fox Theater]] in [[Brighton]] opened.
* [[Sam Raine]] opened the [[Lincoln Theatre]] in [[Bessemer]].
* [[Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood]] was founded.
* [[Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood]] was founded.
* [[Gus's Hot Dogs]] opened on [[4th Avenue North]].
* [[Gus's Hot Dogs]] opened on [[4th Avenue North]].
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* [[Raymond's Five Points Market]] opened.
* [[Raymond's Five Points Market]] opened.
* [[Roy Lumber]] opened in [[Bessemer]].
* [[Roy Lumber]] opened in [[Bessemer]].
* [[Spivey Hobby, Toys & Gifts]] opened on [[Tuscaloosa Avenue]]
* The [[Douglas Clinic]] opened in the former [[Frank Lathrop residence]] on [[14th Avenue South]].
===Government===
* [[January 20]]: [[Jim Folsom Sr]] succeeded [[Chauncey Sparks]] as [[Governor of Alabama]].
* January 20: [[James Inzer]] succeeded [[Leven Ellis]] as [[Lieutenant Governor of Alabama]].
* May: Residents of [[Homewood]] and [[Mountain Brook]] approved a 5-mill property tax to support development of [[Shades Valley High School]].
* December: The [[Homewood City Council]] rezoned the site of the future [[Vulcan Park Condominiums|Valley View Apartments]].
* [[Fultondale]] was incorporated.
* [[Mulga]] was incorporated.
* [[Trussville]] was incorporated.
* The [[Alabama State Fair Authority]] was established by the [[City of Birmingham]] as a successor to the [[Alabama State Fair & Exhibit Association]].
* [[Homewood]] deeded land on [[Shades Creek Parkway]] to the [[Armory Commission of Alabama]] for a [[Homewood National Guard Armory]].
* The [[Jefferson County Planning Commission]] was established.


===Education===
===Education===
* [[John Carroll Catholic High School]] opened.
* [[John Carroll Catholic High School]] opened.
* [[Wenonah Elementary School]] opened.
* [[Wenonah Elementary School]] opened.
* [[Southeastern Bible College]] acquired the former [[Frank Nelson residence]] on [[Pawnee Avenue]].
* The [[Alabama Supreme Court]]'s ruling on the estate of [[Harvey Woodward]] allowed planning for the [[Indian Springs School]] to move forward.


===Media===
===Media===
* [[January 1]]: [[WAFM-FM]] went on the air.
* [[WVOK-AM]] went on the air.
* [[WVOK-AM]] went on the air.


===Religion===
===Religion===
* [[June 21]]: [[Joseph Adams]] was appointed pastor of [[Holy Infant of Prague Catholic Church]].
* [[Garywood Assembly of God]] was founded as [[Garywood Assembly of God|El Bethel Assembly of God]].
* [[Garywood Assembly of God]] was founded as [[Garywood Assembly of God|El Bethel Assembly of God]].
* [[Trinity United Methodist Church (Edgewood)|Trinity United Methodist Church]] began holding services in an army chapel building bought as surplus from [[Camp Sibert]] near [[Gadsden]].
* [[Trinity United Methodist Church (Edgewood)|Trinity United Methodist Church]] began holding services in an army chapel building bought as surplus from [[Camp Sibert]] near [[Gadsden]].
* [[Edward Gardner]] became pastor of [[Mount Olive Baptist Church, Kingston]].
* [[Al Mathes]] became pastor of [[South Highland Presbyterian Church]].
* [[William Vines]] succeeded [[J. Ivey Edwards]] as pastor of [[Dawson Family of Faith|Dawson Memorial Baptist Church]].
* [[West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church]] purchased the site for their present church building on [[19th Place Southwest]].


===Sports===
===Sports===
 
* [[January 1]]: Tennessee State defeated Louisville Municipal College 32-0 in the [[Vulcan Bowl#1946 season|1947 Vulcan Bowl]].
* [[January 28]]: [[Izzy Jannazzo]] lost his last boxing match to Steve Belloise.
* The [[Birmingham Skyhawks]] began play in the Professional Basketball League of America
* The [[Birmingham Vulcans (SPBL)|Birmingham Vulcans]] began play in the Southern Professional Basketball League
* The [[Bessemer Whiz Kids]] began play in the Southern Professional Basketball League
* [[Red Drew]] succeeded [[Frank W. Thomas]] as coach of the [[Alabama Crimson Tide football team]].
* [[Coke McKenzie]] caught a world record [[bluegill]] at [[Ketona Lakes]].


==Individuals==
==Individuals==
 
* [[September 1]]: [[John Caldwell]] succeeded [[Arthur Harman]] as [[President of the University of Montevallo]].
* [[October 2]]: [[Stanleigh Malotte]] returned to the [[Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ]] at the [[Alabama Theatre]].
* [[Henry Badham Jr]] was made a Brigadier General and given command of the [[514th Troop Carrier Wing]] and the [[319th Bombardment Wing]] at [[Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport|Birmingham Municipal Airport]].
* [[Laurie C. Battle]] succeeded [[Luther Patrick]] as Representative of the [[9th Congressional District of Alabama]].
* [[Harvie Branscomb]] was appointed chair of the first United States Advisory Commission for Education Exchange.
* [[Orville Schanbacher]] succeeded [[Joseph Loveman]] as president of [[Loveman's]].
* [[Roy Downs]] became president of [[Central State Bank of Calera]].
* [[John Gallalee]] succeeded [[Raymond Paty]] as [[List of University of Alabama presidents|President of the University of Alabama]].
* [[Robert Johnson]] succeeded [[W. B. Johnson]] as principal of [[Parker High School]].
* [[Dorothy Love Coates|Dorothy Love]] left the [[Gospel Harmonettes]].
* [[Willie Ruff]] and [[Dwike Mitchell]] formed the [[Mitchell-Ruff Duo]].
* [[Hugh Thomas]] became dean of the [[Birmingham Conservatory of Music]].
* Texas A&M Aggies football coach [[Homer Norton]] was fired.
* [[Hank Crisp]] began coaching the Tulane Green Wave football team.
* [[Grady Price]] succeeded [[Hayes Parnell]] as [[Mayor of Leeds]].
* [[W. C. Patton]] became president of the [[Alabama NAACP]].
* [[G. B. Baggett]] succeeded [[Powell Hamner]] as [[Walker County Sheriff]].


===Births===
===Births===
[[File:Emmylou Harris-Profile.jpg|right|thumb|125px|Emmylou Harris]]
[[File:Emmylou Harris-Profile.jpg|right|thumb|125px|Emmylou Harris was born in 1947]]
* [[January 4]]: [[Tim Rooney]] actor / voice actor
* [[January 4]]: [[Tim Rooney]] actor / voice actor
* [[February 1]]: [[Ira Chaffin]], sculptor and hotel keeper
* [[February 1]]: [[Ira Chaffin]], sculptor and hotel keeper
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* [[February 4]]: [[Wallace Potts]], film director / screenwriter / archivist.
* [[February 4]]: [[Wallace Potts]], film director / screenwriter / archivist.
* [[February 11]]: [[Roy Moore]], [[Alabama Supreme Court]] chief justice
* [[February 11]]: [[Roy Moore]], [[Alabama Supreme Court]] chief justice
* [[February 22]]: [[Richard North Patterson]], attorney / novelist
* [[February 22]]: [[Richard North Patterson]], attorney and novelist
* February 22: [[De Martenson]], attorney
* [[February 23]]: [[George Curry]], newspaper columnist
* [[February 23]]: [[George Curry]], newspaper columnist
* [[March 1]]: [[Tom Hinson]], accountant / embezzler
* [[March 1]]: [[Tom Hinson]], accountant / embezzler
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* [[July 23]]: [[John Katopodis]], [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* [[July 23]]: [[John Katopodis]], [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* [[August 13]]: [[Dowd Ritter]], CEO of [[Regions Bank]]
* [[August 13]]: [[Dowd Ritter]], CEO of [[Regions Bank]]
* [[September 27]]: [[Joe Moudry]], technologist and fanzine publisher
* [[October 26]]: [[Wade Black]], director of the [[Birmingham Pledge Foundation]]
* [[October 26]]: [[Wade Black]], director of the [[Birmingham Pledge Foundation]]
* [[November 18]]: [[Saleh Bajalieh|Saleh "Sol" Bajalieh]], restaurateur
* [[November 18]]: [[Saleh Bajalieh|Saleh "Sol" Bajalieh]], restaurateur
* [[December 7]]: [[Garry Unger]] professional hockey player / coach
* [[December 7]]: [[Garry Unger]] professional hockey player / coach
* [[December 28]]: [[Spencer Bachus]], former U.S. Representative
* [[December 28]]: [[Spencer Bachus]], former U.S. Representative
* [[Bunky Anderson]], drummer and music promoter
* [[Leroy Bandy]], [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* [[Leroy Bandy]], [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* [[Bill Billits], [[Graysville City Council]] member
* [[Bill Billits]], [[Graysville City Council]] member
* [[Sandra Brown]], [[Birmingham Board of Education]] member
* [[Sandra Brown]], [[Birmingham Board of Education]] member
* [[Tom Cosby]], development director
* [[Tom Cosby]], development director
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* [[Scott Douglas]], director of [[Greater Birmingham Ministries]]
* [[Scott Douglas]], director of [[Greater Birmingham Ministries]]
* [[Carolyn Featheringill]], attorney and law professor
* [[Carolyn Featheringill]], attorney and law professor
* [[Robert Haslam]], bartender
* [[Elias Hendricks]], [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* [[Elias Hendricks]], [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* [[Rob Henrikson]], CEO of MetLife
* [[Rob Henrikson]], CEO of MetLife
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* [[Mike Rasmussen]], attorney
* [[Mike Rasmussen]], attorney
* [[Johnny Robinson]], victim of racial violence
* [[Johnny Robinson]], victim of racial violence
* [[Fred Shuttlesworth Jr]]
* [[Susie (elephant)|Susie]], [[Birmingham Zoo]] elephant
* [[Susie (elephant)|Susie]], [[Birmingham Zoo]] elephant
* [[Gwen Sykes]], [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* [[Gwen Sykes]], [[Birmingham City Council]] member
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===Graduations===
===Graduations===
 
* [[Oscar Adams Jr]] earned his law degree at Howard University.
* [[Bill Bolen]] graduated from Albert G. Parish High School.
* [[Joseph Braswell]] graduated from [[Birmingham-Southern College]].
* [[Eric Embry]] earned his degree at the [[University of Alabama School of Law]].
* [[Harry U. Gilmer]] completed a degree in chemical engineering at the [[Auburn University|Alabama Polytechnic Institute]].
* [[Leven Hazlegrove]] completed a chemistry degree at [[Howard College]].
* [[Jim Hillhouse]] graduated from [[Marion Military Institute]].
* [[Glenn Ireland II]] graduated from the University of Virginia.
* [[Autherine Lucy]] graduated from Linden Academy in Marengo County.
* [[Jack Nelson]] graduated from Notre Dame High School in Biloxi, Mississippi.
* [[William Powell]] graduated from [[Phillips High School]].
* [[Frank Samford Jr]] graduated from the [[University of Alabama]].
* [[Ezra Sims]] completed a bachelor of arts at [[Birmingham-Southern College]].
* [[Martha Sykes]] graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College.
* [[Dewey White]] completed his medical degree at the University of Virginia.


===Marriages===
===Marriages===
 
* [[June 10]]: Metropolitan Opera soprano [[Irene Jordan]] married violinist Arnold Caplan.
* [[August 8]]: [[Rosamond McDuff]] married Mary Evelyn Morgan at the [[First Pentecostal Holiness Church]] in [[North Birmingham]].
* [[October 12]]: [[Satchel Paige]] married Lahoma Brown in Hays, Kansas.
* [[Virginia Pounds Brown|Virginia Pounds]] married [[William Bestor Brown]].
* [[Robert Guillot]] married Patty Shirley.
* [[John Patterson]] married Mary Jo McGowin.
* [[Ed Jones]] married June McGowen.


===Awards===
===Awards===
* [[Erskine Hawkins]] was given an honorary doctorate by [[Alabama State University]].
* [[John Rhoden]] was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship for sculpture at Columbia University.
* [[Miss Alabama]]: [[Peggy Elder]]


===Retirements===
* [[Carlton Molesworth]] retired from baseball.


===Deaths===
===Deaths===
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* [[May 16]]: [[Robert Aland]], founder of [[New Ideal]] department store
* [[May 16]]: [[Robert Aland]], founder of [[New Ideal]] department store
* [[July 15]]: [[Archibald Carmichael]], U.S. Representative
* [[July 15]]: [[Archibald Carmichael]], U.S. Representative
* [[October 30]]: [[Isaac Ullman]], magazine publisher
* [[October 31]]: [[Robert Meyer]], hotel owner
* [[October 31]]: [[Robert Meyer]], hotel owner
* [[Ella Graham]]


==Works==
==Works==
 
* ''[[Annals of the Southside Baptist Church]]'' by [[James Sulzby Jr]]
* [[Colonial Stores]] introduced their "rooster" logo.


===Buildings===
===Buildings===
* [[1 Wood Manor]] in [[Tuscaloosa]]
* [[Ans-O-Phone|Ans-O-Phone building]] on [[6th Avenue North]]
* [[Ans-O-Phone|Ans-O-Phone building]] on [[6th Avenue North]]
* [[John Carroll Catholic High School]]
* [[College Theatre]] in [[East Lake]]
* [[College Theatre]] in [[East Lake]]
* [[Crestline Heights Shopping Center]] in [[Crestline Village]]
* [[Crestline Heights Shopping Center]] in [[Crestline Village]]
* [[Edgewood Elementary School]] auditorium
* [[Edgewood Elementary School]] auditorium
* [[Elmore's|Elmore's]] on [[18th Street South (Homewood)|18th Street South]] in [[Homewood]]
* [[Exchange Security Bank of Birmingham|Exchange Bank Building]] on [[20th Street South]]
* [[Exchange Security Bank of Birmingham|Exchange Bank Building]] on [[20th Street South]]
* [[Five Points Market shopping center]]
* [[Home Baking Company]] renovations
* [[Home Baking Company]] renovations
* [[John Carroll Catholic High School]]
* [[Parham Apothecary Building]] in [[Fairfield]]
* [[Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory]] on [[6th Avenue North]]
* [[South Elyton Baptist Church]]
* [[Legion Field]] south end zone grandstands
* [[Wenonah Elementary School]]
* [[Wenonah Elementary School]]
* [[WJLD building]] on [[Bessemer Super Highway]]
* [[WJLD building]] on [[Bessemer Super Highway]]
* [[3rd Avenue Farmers Market]] remodeling
* More than 50 homes at [[Central Park Gardens]] developed by [[Jim Wood Jr]]


===Music===
===Music===
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===Film, Radio and TV===
===Film, Radio and TV===
* Walter Lantz Productions made a series of [[Reddy Kilowatt]] cartoon shorts.


==Context==
==Context==

Latest revision as of 15:58, 10 January 2024

1947 was the 76th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

Business

Establishments

The "Roman Rooms" restaurant at George Ward's former Vestavia estate opened in 1947.

Government

Education

Media

Religion

Sports

Individuals

Births

Emmylou Harris was born in 1947

Graduations

Marriages

Awards

Retirements

Deaths

Works

Buildings

Music

Film, Radio and TV

  • Walter Lantz Productions made a series of Reddy Kilowatt cartoon shorts.

Context

1940s
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