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'''August 6''' in the history of the [[Birmingham District]]:
'''August 6''' in the history of the [[Birmingham District]]:


* [[2023]]: The [[2023 NABJ Convention]] concluded at the [[BJCC]].
* [[2022]]: The [[John Looney House and Pioneer Museum|John Looney House]] in [[Ashville]] was damaged by fire.
* [[2020]]: The [[University of Alabama]] renamed [[Nott Hall]] as [[Honors Hall]].
* [[2019]]: A major fire damaged the [[Hawthorne at Wisteria]] apartment complex in [[Hoover]].
* [[2009]]: [[Joyce Vance]] was confirmed as the [[United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama]].
* [[2007]]: The [[Lipscomb City Coalition]] was organized.
* [[2007]]: The [[Lipscomb City Coalition]] was organized.
* [[2005]]: The second-annual [[Southern Heritage Festival]] opened at [[Kelly Ingram Park]].
* [[2005]]: The second-annual [[Southern Heritage Festival]] opened at [[Kelly Ingram Park]].
* [[1971]]: [[Bobby Allison]] won the Myers Brothers 250 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
* [[1999]]: The 1999 [[Birmingham Heritage Festival]] began.
* 1999: The [[Alabama Baptist State Convention]] Youth Evangelism Conference began at the [[BJCC]].
* [[1994]]: The Rolling Stones' "Voodoo Lounge" tour [[List of concerts at Legion Field|played at Legion Field]].
* [[1965]]: President Johnson signed the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]].
* [[1925]]: Governor [[William Brandon]] commuted the death sentences of [[Odell Jackson|Odell]] and [[Pearl Jackson]], convicted in the [[Axe syndicate|1920s axe murders]].
* [[1905]]: Urban folklore claims [[Hazel Farris]] killed her husband, three policemen, and a deputy sheriff in Kentucky.
* [[1887]]: The [[Magic City Guards]] were formally disbanded.
* [[1884]]: [[Belle Kerr|Belle Fitzgerald]] married attorney [[Robert Kerr]].
 
[[File:Virginia Foster Durr.jpg|right|thumb|Virginia Foster Durr, born August 6, 1903]]
==Births==
* [[1976]]: [[Railroad Park]] director [[Camille Spratling]] was born in [[Birmingham]].
* [[1968]]: [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]] running back [[Siran Stacy]] was born in Geneva (Geneva County).
* [[1968]]: [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]] running back [[Siran Stacy]] was born in Geneva (Geneva County).
* [[1887]]: The [[Magic City Guards]] were formally disbanded.
* [[1938]]: Barber, Circuit clerk and gospel singer [[Shotgun Giddens]] was born in [[Oldfield]], [[Talladega County]].
* [[1909]]: Baseball player [[Al Veach]] was born in [[Maylene]].
* [[1903]]: Activist [[Virginia Durr|Virginia Foster Durr]] was born in [[Birmingham]].
* [[1876]]: Inventor [[Miller Reese Hutchison]] was born in Baldwin County.
* [[1876]]: Inventor [[Miller Reese Hutchison]] was born in Baldwin County.
* [[1875]]: Attorney [[Moses Ullman]] was born in Natchez, Mississippi.
* [[1830]]: Birmingham founder [[William Nabers]] was born in [[Jefferson County]].
==Deaths==
* [[2020]]: [[Chelsea Fire and Rescue]] chief [[Wayne Shirley]].
* [[2014]]: Homebuilder and developer [[Al Awtrey]] died in [[Hoover]].
* [[1891]]: Former [[Birmingham Board of Aldermen|Alderman]] and [[Mayor of Birmingham|acting Mayor]] [[William McDonald]] died.
==Sports==
* [[1971]]: [[Bobby Allison]] won the Myers Brothers 250 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.


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August 6 in the history of the Birmingham District:

Virginia Foster Durr, born August 6, 1903

Births

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Sports

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