January 14: Difference between revisions

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January 14 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2014: Trussville's Green Drive reopened to traffic.
2013: Jeremy Littleton was appointed chief of Montevallo Police Department.
2007: Brook Highland Cinema closed.
1971: The Birmingham Parks & Recreation Board commissioned Felton Collier and Caroll Harmon to produce a Master Plan for the Birmingham Zoo.
1967: Timothy Leary spoke at the Human Be-In.
1927: The town of Hollywood was incorporated.
1914: The Lyric Theatre opened its doors with a program featuring a Jesse Lasky Players production of "The Rest Cure", cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Walter Van Brunt, and others.
1912: A fire broke out on 2nd Avenue North, damaging the Molton Building and causing flooding in the adjacent Bell Building, resulting in a city-wide telephone outage for nearly two weeks.

2012: Presbyterian pastor Jon Crow died in Greenville, South Carolina.
1991: Jazz musician and CIA operative Miles Copeland died in Oxfordshire, England.
1938: Baptist minister Lemuel Dawson died.

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 * [[1927]]: The town of [[Hollywood]] was incorporated.
 * [[1914]]: The [[Lyric Theatre]] opened its doors with a program featuring a Jesse Lasky Players production of "The Rest Cure", cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Walter Van Brunt, and others.
+* [[1912]]: A fire broke out on [[2nd Avenue North]], damaging the [[Molton Building]] and causing flooding in the adjacent [[Bell Building]], resulting in a city-wide telephone outage for nearly two weeks.
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