1976

1976 was the 105th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham and the U.S. Bicentennial.

Events

• Glenn Messer formed the Southern Museum of Flight Foundation.
• E. O. Wilson won the U.S. National Medal of Science.
• May 3: President Gerald Ford delivered a campaign speech at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center.
• May 27-31: The American Freedom Train stopped in Birmingham and changed locomotives.
• July 6: Vulcan was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• October 4: Jack Grace was sworn in as Mayor of Vestavia Hills.
• December 29: Elvis Presley performed his only concert in Birmingham.

Business

• A. G. Gaston bought WENN-FM.

Sports

• The Birmingham Bulls played their first season of hockey.

Works

• Cosmos album by Sun Ra

Buildings

• Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center
• BTNB BJCC branch
• Birmingham Parking Authority Deck 2
• Birmingham Parking Authority Deck 3
• Regions Plaza
• Sibyl Temple was moved from George Ward's Vestavia estate to its current location on Shades Mountain.
• Valspar Coatings

Films and TV

• Stay Hungry film, based on the novel
• Polly Holliday began her part as Flo on Alice

People

Births

• Kellie Camp, schoolteacher
• Clayton Colvin, artist
• Earnest Lumpkin, bank manager
• Maria Taylor, singer/songwriter
• Amy Vickers, environmentalist
• June: Robert Davis III, mountain climber
• June 18: Jeremy Harper, million counter
• October 4: Audra Bean, publicist
• October 6: Taylor Hicks, singer/songwriter
• October 19: Jason Barnette, baseball player

Deaths

• May 2: Dan Bankhead, first black Major League pitcher
• December 20: Birmingham-Southern College student Quenette Shehane was abducted and killed.

See also List of Birmingham homicides in 1976

See Also

• 1976 UAB Blazers
• 1976 Iron Bowl

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