November 23

November 23 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2010: Busy Bee Burger opened in Chelsea.
2010: Robert Leslie Palmer's Archibald Zwick and the Eight Towers was published.
2004: Ruben Studdard's gospel album I Need an Angel was released.
1999: Mal Moore was named Alabama's athletic director.
1998: Reality 101.1 FM went on the air.
1987: Richard Arrington Jr was sworn into his third term of office at Boutwell Auditorium.
1951: Clark's Service Station at Graymont Avenue and Arkadelphia Road opened.
1938: The 1938 Southern Conference for Human Welfare meeting in Birmingham came to a close.
1934: Albert Boutwell married Helen Balfour.
1904: Engineer Bem Price married Lutie Bragg.
1897: Andrew Beard was granted his second patent on a rotary engine.
1890: A Baptist church in Warrior, newly completed by a Black congregation, burned to the ground.
1880: Alice Furnace No. 1 was blown in.

Henry Higginbotham, born November 23, 1896

Births

1992: Birmingham Legion FC forward Juan Agudelo was born in Manizales, Colombia.
1957: NBA player Andrew Toney was born in Birmingham.
1951: Business owner Leonard Slick was born in Fairmont, West Virginia.
1948: Banker Young Boozer III was born in Birmingham.
1896: Miner and WWI veteran Henry Higginbotham was born in Nauvoo.
1873: Attorney John C. Forney was born.

2021: Sportswriter Cecil Hurt died of complications from pneumonia.
2021: The Birmingham Zoo's African lion Kwanzaa was euthanized.
2016: Insurance executive and Birmingham City Councilor Alan Drennen died.
2015: Pastor and environmentalist Heron Johnson died.
2013: Country singer Wayne Mills died from a gunshot wound in Nashville, Tennessee.
2011: Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority member Gil Wideman died from injuries sustained in an auto collision.
2007: World War II veteran Joe Sacco died.
1994: Nurse Bettie Crutcher died.
1985: Former American League All-Star Sammy West died in Lubbock, Texas.
1961: Playwright William Berney died in Los Angeles, California.
1920: 12 miners were killed in the 1920 Parrish Mine explosion.
1879: Alburto Martin died in Birmingham.

2002: Tommy Tuberville's Auburn Tigers won the Iron Bowl 17-7 at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
1996: Alabama 24, Auburn 23 at Legion Field. Alabama coach Gene Stallings announced his resignation the same day.
1895: Auburn defeated Alabama 48-0 in the first Iron Bowl to be played in Tuscaloosa.