January 15

January 15 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2019: UAB Gardendale Clinic opened.
2018: Mayor Randall Woodfin delivered his first "State of the Community" address.
2013: Actor Jim Nabors married long-term partner Stan Cadwallader in Seattle, Washington.
2008: Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford delivered the 2008 State of the City address.
2008: The Cleveland Church of God was damaged by fire.
2001: Condoleezza Rice became National Security Advisor.
1979: Howell Heflin was sworn into his U.S. Senate seat.
1978: The Kopper Kettle in Auburn was destroyed by a natural gas explosion.
1971: Keith Blayney became the first dean of UAB's School of Community and Allied Health Resources.
1934: B. O. Hargrove was promoted to Chief of the Birmingham Fire Department.
1928: The new Hillman Hospital was dedicated.
1924: Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff returned to Birmingham for a second performance.
1914: George Bodeker founded the Bodeker National Detective Agency in the Brown-Marx Building.
1909: Foundation work for the Empire Building was completed.
1907: E. L. Higdon succeeded Andrew Burgin as Jefferson County Sheriff.
1890: The William Nabors residence was purchased and later demolished to make way for the Steiner Building.
1885: Samuel Truss succeeded Thomas Anderson as Jefferson County Sheriff.
1879: The Alabama State Bar Association was founded with former Governor Thomas Hill Watts presiding.

Glen Browder, born January 15, 1943

Births

1984: UAB tennis player Julia von Samson was born.
1961: NFL player Jeremiah Castille was born in Georgia.
1943: Congressman Glen Browder was born in South Carolina.
1930: Boutique owner Judy Abroms was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1919: Actor Tod Griffin was born in Birmingham.
1913: Labor attorney Buddy Cooper was born in Brookwood.
1912: World War II veteran and Birmingham police officer Leon Medlock was born in Albertville.
1901: Mayor of Tarrant Ocie McCullough was born in Ashville.
1897: Suffragist Indiana Little was born in Wyatt, Georgia.
1888: James Esdale, Grand Dragon of the Realm of Alabama in the Ku Klux Klan, was born.
1849: U.S. Commissioner and newspaper publisher H. A. Wilson was born in Cassville, Georgia.

2023: C. J. Harris, singer and "American Idol" finalist
2022: Rickey Powell, vocalist and actor
2015: Sam Wehby, founder of All South Properties
2015: Gonzo, a bald eagle at the Birmingham Zoo
2010: Former judge Charles Crowder
2010: UAB endocrinologist Constance Shen Pittman
1901: Ironworker, saloonkeeper, jailer and Birmingham Alderman Sylvester Daly
1899: Laborer George Meadows was lynched at Pratt Mines on suspicion of the murder of Willie Kellum and the assault of his mother.