May 24

May 24 in the history of the Birmingham District:

• 2010: Big Daddy's Bar-B-Q was damaged by fire.
• 2007: The Mark & Mack Show completed its final airing.
• 2007: Robert W. Carter became chief of the Adamsville Police Department.
• 2006: Regions Bank and AmSouth bank announced plans to merge.
• 2006: Taylor Hicks was announced as the winner of American Idol.
• 2005: Bob Riley declared "Bo Bice Day".
• 2005: The Maria Taylor album 11:11 was released on Saddle Creek Records.
• 2005: Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph Raymond Boland retired.
• 2004: McCormick & Schmick's opened at Brookwood Village.
• 1989: Cobb Festival 12 Cinemas opened at the Eastwood Festival Centre.
• 1924: An aerial circus with more than 30 airplanes was hosted at Roberts Field.
• 1916: Lula Mehaffey became the first woman to graduate from Howard College.
• 1887: Residents voted 29-6 to incorporate the new town of Highland.

Births

• 1923: Activist and philanthropist Marguerite Harbert was born.
• 1931: Auto dealer Leon Edwards was born in Birmingham.

Marriages

• 1917: Gus Jebeles married Catherine Chunn in Kentucky.
• 1857: Samuel Ullman married Emma Mayer in Natchez, Mississippi.

Deaths

• 2010: Former Alabama Power Company president Joe Farley died.
• 1972: Newspaper reporter Mignon Hall Blair died.
• 1911: Jefferson County Constable Willie Lewis Staggs was killed in the line of duty near Bessie.

Sports

• 2006: The 2006 SEC Baseball Tournament opened at the Hoover Metropolitan Stadium.
• 1992: Birmingham Fire 27 - Ohio Glory 24 at Ohio Stadium.
• 1952: Boston's Jimmy Piersall and New York's Billy Martin had an on-the-field fistfight.
• 1942: Satchel Paige led the first African-American baseball team to play at Wrigley Field in Chicago.