1998
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1998 was the 127th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.
Events
- January 29: Eric Robert Rudolph detonated a bomb at the New Woman All Women Clinic in Birmingham, killing officer Robert Sanderson and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons.
- March 18: All four lanes of I-20/59 North were closed for five days after a 23-ton steel coil bounced down the interstate after falling off a truck.
- August 4: The MAPS proposal is defeated by voters.
- September 9: A 22 ton coil punched 17 holes along a section of I-65 South after falling off a truck.
Buildings
- June: Grandview II office building opens
Deaths
- January 29: Robert Sanderson killed in abortion clinic bombing|
- April 15: Clettus Atkinson, columnist for the Birmingham Post-Herald
- November 30: Margaret Walker, writer, poet
- See also List of Birmingham homicides in 1998
See Also
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