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* [[September 4]]: [[War_Eagle#War_Eagle_V_.281981-1986.29|War Eagle V]], [[Auburn University]] mascot | * [[September 4]]: [[War_Eagle#War_Eagle_V_.281981-1986.29|War Eagle V]], [[Auburn University]] mascot | ||
* [[October 7]]: [[Wallace Wade]], [[Alabama Crimson Tide football]] coach | * [[October 7]]: [[Wallace Wade]], [[Alabama Crimson Tide football]] coach | ||
* [[Frank Samford, Jr]], president of [[Liberty National Life Insurance Company]] | |||
:''See also [[List of Birmingham homicides in 1986]]'' | :''See also [[List of Birmingham homicides in 1986]]'' |
Revision as of 00:43, 3 June 2010
1986 was the 115th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.
Events
- February: Operation Western Sizzler concluded.
- June: The Birmingham Airport Authority was created.
- October 28: President Ronald Reagan visited Birmingham.
- November 27: The Homewood High School Marching Band led the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
- The first We Love Homewood Day was held.
- The first Liberty Day was held in Columbiana.
- Arlington School closed.
- The former Ridgely Apartments opened as the new Tutwiler Hotel.
- A reserve population of watercress darters was planted at Penny Springs in Pinson.
- A fire badly damaged the Studio Arts Building.
- AIDS Task Force of Alabama was founded.
- The first Beam's Crawfish Boil took place.
- Space One Eleven was founded.
- The Center for Urban Missions was founded.
- Former Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black appeared on a U. S. postage stamp
Business
- AAA Auto Truck and Trailer became Southern Comfort Conversions.
- B & B Smith Construction was founded.
- BioCryst opened.
- Buffalo Rock purchased the Tuscaloosa Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company.
- Cosmo's Pizza opened.
- Costa and Head filed for bankruptcy.
- Eighteenth Street Orientals opened.
- Fair Park Drive-In and Mustang Drive-In closed.
- HealthSouth went public.
- Moore-Handley, Inc. went public.
- Nidek Medical was founded.
- The Pizitz department store chain was sold to McRae's.
- Silvertron Café opened.
- Terrific New Theatre was founded.
- Intensive Care Beauty Salon opened.
- NewsBreak opened on Highland Avenue.
Media
- The Russ and Dee Fine talk show debuted.
- WCAJ, channel 68, went on the air.
Sports
- March 24: Bobby Unser set a closed-course speed record for four-wheel drive vehicles at Talladega Superspeedway.
- August 4: The USFL suspended their scheduled fall season, effectively ending the Birmingham Stallions.
- October 2: Vida Blue pitched his final Major League game.
- December 25: Alabama beat Washington 28-6 in the Sun Bowl.
- December 31: The first All-American Bowl was held at Legion Field.
- Alabama A&M won the Magic City Classic.
Works
- J. R. Taylor began his I Cover the War column in The Southsider.
Buildings
- Five Points South Deck
- Harbert Center
- Heatherwood Country Club
- Inverness Country Club Clubhouse (destroyed by fire in 2007)
- Riverchase Galleria
- Southtrust Tower
- WTTO Tower
Music
- The Alabama Wurlitzer at Its Best by Tom Hazleton
- Thirteen by Emmylou Harris
- "Don't Go Away" single by the Primitons
- Car Radio Jerome by T. R. Reed
- A Night in East Berlin by Sun Ra and his Cosmo Discipline Arkestra
Individuals
- April 2: George Wallace announced his retirement from public office.
- Larry DeLucas became Associate Director of UAB's Center for Macromolecular Crystallography.
Births
- February 18: Ebonee Benson, Miss Black Alabama USA 2005
- June 4: Colin Peek, football player
- July 18: Walter Sharpe, basketball player
- October 21: Natalee Holloway, missing person
- October 30: Desmond Jennings, baseball player
- November 14: Joe Webb, football player
Awards
- Supreme Court Justict Hugo Black was featured on a U.S. postage stamp.
Graduations
- Architect Jeremy Erdreich from Sidwell Friends School.
- Basketball player Alan Ogg from Gardendale High School.
- Football player Eric Ramsey from Homewood High School.
- Football player Willie Wyatt from Gardendale High School.
Deaths
- May: John Rountree, Jr, former Director of the Alabama Department of Aeronautics
- September 4: War Eagle V, Auburn University mascot
- October 7: Wallace Wade, Alabama Crimson Tide football coach
- Frank Samford, Jr, president of Liberty National Life Insurance Company
- See also List of Birmingham homicides in 1986
See also
Context
In 1986, Martin Luther King, Jr Day was first observed as a federal holiday. The Chicago Bears won Super Bowl XX. Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after take-off. Turner Broadcasting began to colorize black and white movie classics. Halley's Comet visited the inner solar system. The United States bombed targets in Libya. Geraldo Rivera hosted The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault. A reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. Hands Across America createsd a human chain across the U.S. Desmond Tutu became the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa. Fox launched as America's fourth television network. The New York Mets won their second World Series.
Notable films of 1986 included Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, Platoon, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Larry McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Lonesome Dove.
Notable births in 1986 included Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Lindsay Lohan, Tahj Mowry, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Notable deaths in 1986 included Desi Arnaz, James Cagney, Cary Grant, Benny Goodman, Frank Herbert, L. Ron Hubbard, and Donna Reed.
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