January 22: Difference between revisions

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January 22 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2011: The first FoodBlogSouth conference was held at Woodrow Hall.
2009: The Statewide Health Coordinating Council voted to clear the way for a hospital in Hoover.
1965: CARS, Inc. was incorporated.
1964: The Regional Planning Commission held its first meeting.
1926: Minor High School was almost completely destroyed by a fire which started in the chemistry laboratory.
1923: Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff performed for the first time in Birmingham at the Jefferson Theatre.
1877: An English syndicate assumed control of the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad, renaming it the Alabama Great Southern Railroad.
1824: Schoolteacher Lemuel McMillion married Altamirah Freeland in Jefferson County.

2018: Les and Wize, a pair of Hingeback tortoises, hatched at the Birmingham Zoo.
1951: Alveda King, minister and social activist, was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1945: Bank robber and minister Mary Kay Beard was born in Eldon, Missouri.
1915: Minister C. L. Franklin was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi.
1908: Harpist Alice Chalifoux was born.
1904: Poet John Beecher was born.

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 ==Births==
+* [[2018]]: [[Les]] and [[Wize]], a pair of Hingeback tortoises, hatched at the [[Birmingham Zoo]].
 * [[1951]]: [[Alveda King]], minister and social activist, was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
 * [[1945]]: Bank robber and minister [[Mary Kay Beard]] was born in Eldon, Missouri.