February 2

February 2 in the history of the Birmingham District:

• 2011: The new Ona's Music Room opened in the Martin Biscuit Building at Pepper Place.
• 2011: Pinches Tacos opened at Hallman Hill on Oxmoor Road.
• 2007: A Cessna 172 with two aboard crashed in western Jefferson County.
• 2003: The Mountain Brook Inn closed.
• 2001: WRRS-FM switched formats to "modern rock/adult contemporary", becoming "101.1 the Spot".
• 1992: The Hoover Public Library building was dedicated.
• 1990: Birmingham Zoo's groundhog Birmingham Bill began making weather predictions as part of Groundhog Day.
• 1988: Bishop Raymond Boland was appointed Bishop of Birmingham by Pope John Paul II.
• 1958: Lawrence Reynolds donated a valuable library of over 6,000 medical books to UAB.
• 1922: 9 miners were killed in the 1922 Belle Ellen No. 2 Mine explosion.
• 1917: The USS Birmingham light cruiser left the Philadelphia Navy Yard to joint the Atlantic Fleet's Torpedo Flotilla.
• 1909: 18 miners were killed in the 1909 Short Creek Mine explosion.
• 1904: The Commercial Club of Birmingham was granted a copyright for Giuseppe Moretti's design for "Vulcan".
• 1804: The first United States land office in Alabama was opened at St Stephens.

Births and deaths

• 2014: Filmmaker and Birmingham Pledge Foundation president Wade Black died.
• 2002: Freeman Andress, vice president of Birmingham Landmarks, died.
• 1996: Western Lowland Gorilla Cenzoo was born in Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago.
• 1984: Samford Bulldogs star Cortland Finnegan was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
• 1980: Rapper Gucci Mane was born in Bessemer.
• 1938: Motorcycle restorer Brian Slark was born in London, England.
• 1922: 9 miners were killed in the 1922 Belle Ellen No. 2 Mine explosion.
• 1920: Ann Hodges, the only person known to be struck by a meteorite, was born.
• 1909: 18 miners were killed in the 1909 Short Creek Mine explosion.
• 1884: Lee Bidgood, founding dean of Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, was born in Norfolk County, Virginia.