March 13

March 13 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2020: Alabama's first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in Montgomery.
2014: Post Office Pies opened in Avondale.
2013: The terminal modernization project at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport was completed.
2012: The Samford String Quartet debuted at Samford University's Brock Recital Hall.
1998: First Light emergency shelter was incorporated.
1997: The Storm Water Management Authority was incorporated.
1993: Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company was recorded at the Alabama Theatre; broadcast nationwide but had few audience members due to the Blizzard of 1993.
1993: The roof of Baby Doe's Matchless Mine collapsed.
1961: Pizitz Roebuck Plaza opened.
1926: Trinity Methodist Church (Southside) sold its property on Clairmont Avenue to the City of Birmingham.
1924: A rare snowfall brought 6 inches to Birmingham.

Seale Harris, born March 13, 1870

Births

2009: Ingadze, an African elephant, was born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
1968: UAB Blazers basketball coach Andy Kennedy was born in Louisville, Mississippi.
1960: Basketball player Oliver Robinson was born.
1945: Doctor and missionary Martha Myers was born.
1940: Disco/soul/gospel singer Candi Staton was born in Hanceville.
1918: Sculptor John Rhoden was born.
1913: Electrician and landscape artist Tat Bailey was born near Joppa.
1870: Physician Seale Harris was born in Cedartown, Georgia.
1847: Senator Frank White was born in Prairie, Mississippi.

2011: Insurance executive and community activist Eleanor Harrison died.
2007: Artist and historian James Walker died.
2005: Baseball player Frank House died.
1966: Hueytown municipal court judge Harley Gilmore died.
1934: Insurance executive, developer and Alabama National Guard officer Louis Clark died.

2012: Samford Bulldogs men's basketball coach Jimmy Tillette was fired by athletic director Martin Newton.
1983: Birmingham Stallions 20 - Oakland Invaders 14 in overtime at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.