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August 4 in the history of the Birmingham District:
- 2006: Restaurant G closed.
- 2001: Books-A-Million opened at The Summit.
- 1986: The USFL suspended their scheduled fall season, which was to be the first in direct competition with the NFL. This was effectively the end of the Birmingham Stallions.
- 1931: The mysterious Wood/Williams murders occured in the woods of Shades Mountain. Sisters Nell and Augusta Williams and their friend Jennie Wood were abducted along Leeds Highway following a Sunday matinee downtown. They were robbed and held captive, then shot. Nell survived the shooting, and accused Willie Peterson of the crimes. Peterson, a black man, was convicted even though there was no other evidence against him.
- 1887: Kelly Ingram, the first American soildier to die in World War I, was born in Pratt City.