September 1: Difference between revisions

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September 1 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2013: Renasant Bank purchased M&F Bank.
2013: Rachel Lindley began her tenure as news director for WBHM-FM.
2010: Sojourns relocated to the Eubanks Mercantile building.
2009: Charm opened for business on 2nd Avenue North.
2007: The fourth annual Southern Heritage Festival kicked off at Railroad Reservation Park.
2007: The second annual Alabama Butterbean Festival was held in Pinson.
2005: FM 105.9 was moved to FM 105.5.
2003: Valerie Gribben's Fairytale was published.
1996: ABC 33/40 debuted and WBRC-TV became a FOX Network affiliate.
1977: Peter Frampton performed at the BJCC Coliseum.
1974: Diamond Jim's opened for business on Morris Avenue.
1969: Alabama College was renamed University of Montevallo.
1961: WBRC-6 switched from CBS to ABC.
1961: The Treadwell Barber Shop opened at the Mountain Brook Shopping Center.
1960: Bob Truett succeeded the previously ousted Tom Briskey as director of the Birmingham Zoo.
1939: Birmingham's sister city of Hitachi, Japan was incorporated.
1917: The Sanitary Market opened on 2nd Avenue North.
1906: Alf Brown was appointed captain of the Southside Fire Station Engine Company No. 2.
1903: The first official observation was taken at the Weather Forecast Office Birmingham.

Johnny Mack Brown, born September 1, 1904

1992: Olympic gold medalist Kirani James was born in Gouyave, Grenada.
1946: Pastor and former Jefferson County Commissioner Steve Small was born in Wilcox County.
1918: Congressman James Martin was born in Tarrant.
1914: Alabama Football Network founder Bert Bank was born in Montgomery.
1906: Daniel Corporation president R. Hugh Daniel was born.
1904: Football player and western B-movie actor Johnny Mack Brown was born.
1888: Poet and writer Clement Wood was born in Tuscaloosa.
1874: Coroner Jesse Russum was born in Bowman, Georgia.
1869: Historian Marie Bankhead Owen was born on the Bankhead plantation in Noxubee County, Mississippi.

1975: Former Miss Alabama Ann Fowler married ABC Sports president Roone Arledge.

2007: UAB Blazers lost 18-55 to Michigan State in Lansing, Michigan.
1930: Hank Crisp succeeded Wallace Wade as Athletic Director for the University of Alabama.

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 ==Deaths==
+* [[1986]]: Labor and civil rights leader [[Asbury Howard]] died.
 * [[1954]]: Baseball player [[Wimpy Quinn]] died.
 * [[1900]]: Photographer [[D. C. Redington]] died from a stroke of apoplexy.