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August 17 in the history of the Birmingham District:
- 2006: Engineer Linda Figg presented schematic designs of an elevated tollway over U.S. Highway 280 to the Progress 280 Task Force.
- 2002: Peoria Pirates 79 - Birmingham Steeldogs 33 at the BJCC arena.
- 1942: Entrepreneur Harold Ruttenberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 1933: Third baseman Jim Davenport was born in Siluria.
- 1887: Educator A. H. Parker arrived in Birmingham.
- 1817: Avondale founder and Mayor of Birmingham William H. Morris was born in Troup County, Georgia.
- 1805: Hosea Holcombe was ordained as a Baptist minister in Padgett's Creek, South Carolina.