October 24: Difference between revisions

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October 24 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2014: The Dalai Lama began a four-day visit to Birmingham.
2014: Carbon Hill mayor James Richardson resigned following criminal charges of sexual abuse of city jail inmates.
2009: University of Alabama professors Stuart Rachels and Heather Elliott married.
2005: SouthTrust Bank was acquired by Wachovia.
1996: President Bill Clinton delivered a campaign speech at Birmingham-Southern College.
1962: Shades Mountain Baptist Church broke ground for a new 1,500-seat sanctuary.
1961: Judge Harlan Grooms ruled that Birmingham's parks must be integrated.
1957: Leland Shopping Center in Alberta City opened as Tuscaloosa's first modern shopping center.
1950: Residents of Vestavia Hills voted 88 to 8 in favor of incorporating.
1944: The USS Birmingham lost 229 crewmen during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II.
1941: Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff performed the last of five recitals in Birmingham.
1921: Celebrations for the Semicentennial of Birmingham began at Woodrow Wilson Park.
1915: Henry Edmonds founded the Independent Presbyterian Church.
1905: President Theodore Roosevelt gave an address at Capitol Park after visiting Tuskegee Institute and Montgomery.
1900: Andrew Beard applied for his first "Automatic car-coupling" patent.

2014: Concert pianist and Miss Alabama 1961 Delores Hodgens Howard died in Birmingham.
2013: Newspaper photographer Tommy Langston died.
2013: Pediatrician and state legislator Dewey White died in Mountain Brook.
2012: Planner Robert Juster died in Auburn.
1982: Singer and actress Lottice Howell died at Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa.

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 ==Births==
 * [[1963]]: Painter [[Joe DeCamillis]] was born.
-* [[1924]]: [[Billy Pappas]] was born in Zakynthos, Greece.
+* [[1924]]: Attorney [[Orzell Billingsley]] was born in [[Ensley]].
+* 1924: [[Billy Pappas]] was born in Zakynthos, Greece.
 ==Deaths==