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==Births== | ==Births== | ||
* [[January 24]]: [[Avery Parrish]] | * [[January 24]]: jazz pianist [[Avery Parrish]] in [[Birmingham]] | ||
* [[April 7]]: [[R. G. Armstrong]] | * [[February 14]]: Hardware salesman [[Robert Tyler]] in [[Bluff Park]] | ||
* [[April 26]]: [[Virgil Trucks]] | * [[April 7]]: Actor [[R. G. Armstrong]] in [[Pleasant Grove]] | ||
* [[July 3]]: [[Piper Davis]] | * [[April 26]]: Pitcher [[Virgil Trucks]] in [[Birmingham]] | ||
* [[August 7]]: [[Marguerite Johnston Barnes]] | * [[July 1]]: Psychiatric researcher [[Humphry Osmond]] in Surrey, England | ||
* [[October 30]]: [[Bobby Bragan]] | * [[July 3]]: Baseball player and manager [[Piper Davis]] in [[Piper]] | ||
* [[November 24]]: [[Houston Brice, Jr]] | * [[August 7]]: Journalist and historian [[Marguerite Johnston Barnes]] in [[Birmingham]] | ||
* [[John W. Kirklin]] | * [[October 30]]: Baseball player [[Bobby Bragan]] in [[Birmingham]] | ||
* [[Worcy Crawford]] | * [[November 24]]: Builder [[Houston Brice, Jr]] in [[Birmingham]] | ||
* Heart surgeon [[John W. Kirklin]] | |||
* Bus company owner [[Worcy Crawford]] in Hurtsburo | |||
* Socialite [[Marie Ingalls]] | |||
* Advertising executive [[Robert Luckie, Jr]] in [[Clanton]] | |||
==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
Revision as of 21:41, 28 April 2008
1917 was the 46th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.
Events
- The Civitan Club was founded in Birmingham.
- Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company acquires furnaces in Gadsden.
- Glenn Messer joins the U. S. Army Signal Corps, Aviation section.
- Books-A-Million founded as a newsstand in Florence.
- The unfinished Roden Hotel is dismantled and sold for scrap.
- Nathaniel A. Barrett elected mayor on anti-immigration platform.
- Kiwanis Club of Birmingham founded.
- 1917 Presbyterian General Assembly held in Birmingham.
Sports
- The University of Alabama football team went 5-2-1 in Thomas Kelley's last year as coach.
- The 1917 Birmingham Barons finished 3rd in the Southern Association with a record of 87-66.
Buildings
Births
- January 24: jazz pianist Avery Parrish in Birmingham
- February 14: Hardware salesman Robert Tyler in Bluff Park
- April 7: Actor R. G. Armstrong in Pleasant Grove
- April 26: Pitcher Virgil Trucks in Birmingham
- July 1: Psychiatric researcher Humphry Osmond in Surrey, England
- July 3: Baseball player and manager Piper Davis in Piper
- August 7: Journalist and historian Marguerite Johnston Barnes in Birmingham
- October 30: Baseball player Bobby Bragan in Birmingham
- November 24: Builder Houston Brice, Jr in Birmingham
- Heart surgeon John W. Kirklin
- Bus company owner Worcy Crawford in Hurtsburo
- Socialite Marie Ingalls
- Advertising executive Robert Luckie, Jr in Clanton
Deaths
- October 16: Kelly Ingram, the first US enlisted serviceman killed in WWI.
Context
1917 was the year that the United States declared war on Germany, entering "The Great War" (World War I). "Our Lady of Fatima" was sighted by three children in Portugal. 300 acres of the city of Atlanta burned in that city's "Great Fire" on May 21. The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded. Scott Joplin, Edgar Degas, and Auguste Rodin all died in 1917.
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