October 10

October 10 in the history of the Birmingham District:

• 2015: Grandview Medical Center opened.
• 2009: The 35th annual St Clair County Fall Festival was held.
• 1995: Richard Arrington Jr won a 5th consecutive term as Mayor of Birmingham in the 1995 Birmingham mayoral election.
• 1983: UAB's University Center opened.
• 1980: Governor Fob James appointed Oscar Adams Jr to the Alabama Supreme Court.
• 1945: The Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus began a two-day stop at Rickwood Field.
• 1891: The Birmingham Railway & Electric Company began electric car service in Birmingham.

Mitchell Porter, born October 10, 1825

Births

• 1964: UAB and Puerto Rican national team basketball player Jerome Mincy was born.
• 1960: NBA player Rod Foster was born.
• 1956: Jazz pianist Johnny O'Neal was born.
• 1933: Hair stylist and Manson family victim Jay Sebring was born.
• 1825: Judge Mitchell Porter was born in Montevallo.

Marriages

• 1915: Shopkeeper Gus Jebeles married Matina Kokkinos.
• 1883: John Gillespy married Eugenia Owen.

Deaths

• 2015: Ramsay High School choir director Myrna Ria Ross died.
• 2009: Restauranteur Frank Carnaggio died.
• 1980: Kapali Swamy was born in Mississippi.
• 1972: Lawyer and U.S. Senator Tom Stewart died.
• 1875: Farmer and Tannehill Ironworks owner Ninian Tannehill died.

Sports

• 2004: The first Porsche 250 race was held at Barber Motorsports Park.
• 1906: The first automobile race was held at Birmingham International Raceway.