December 6: Difference between revisions

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December 6 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2013: Fresh Value Marketplace opened in Trussville.
2010: African elephant Bulwagi arrived at the Birmingham Zoo.
2008: Several area cities and towns held their annual Christmas parades.
2006: Shoal Creek Mine was idled and 465 workers were laid off.
2006: The Wachovia Bank branch (opened in 1969 as the BTNB Eastwood branch) outside Eastwood Mall was closed and later demolished.
1974: The Homewood City Council declared the day as Homewood Patriots Day in honor of Homewood High School's first football state championship.
1965: Television station WBMG 42 went on the air.

2011: Artist Linda Kimbrough died.
1992: Laptop, a southern white rhinoceros, was born at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas.
1980: Baseball player Ehren Wassermann was born in Sylacauga.
1959: Lawrence Conaway was born.
1951: Hugo Black's first wife, Josephine, died after a long illness.
1949: Racially-motivated murder victim Virgil Ware was born.
1927: Formal wear stores founder J. O. Tant, Jr was born.
1910: Industrialist Henry F. DeBardeleben died.

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 == Births and deaths ==
 * [[2011]]: Artist [[Linda Kimbrough (artist)|Linda Kimbrough]] died.
-* [[2002]]: [[Laptop]], a southern white rhinoceros, was born at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas.
+* [[1992]]: [[Laptop]], a southern white rhinoceros, was born at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas.
 * [[1980]]: [[Baseball player]] [[Ehren Wassermann]] was born in [[Sylacauga]].
 * [[1959]]: [[Lawrence Conaway]] was born.