November 14

November 14 in the history of the Birmingham District:

2018: Lashunda Scales, Sheila Tyson and Steve Ammons were sworn into the Jefferson County Commission.
2015: The 38th Annual Joint Meeting of the Southeast U.S./Japan and the Japan-U.S Southeast Associations (SEUS Japan) opened in Birmingham.
2014: Richard Scrushy won early release from supervised probation.
2007: The section of Interstate 22 from Cherry Avenue to Industrial Parkway opened.
2007: Judge Allwin Horn held a hearing regarding Larry Langford's eligibility for the 2007 Birmingham mayoral election.
2007: Ivor Brooks became chief of the Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service.
2006: Bobby Humphryes and Jim Carns were sworn into the Jefferson County Commission.
1997: Summit Cinemas opened at The Summit.
1992: The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute opened.
1979: Richard Arrington Jr was sworn into office as the city's first black mayor.
1966: 8 finalists for the design of the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center were announced.
1955: Homewood annexed the communities of Oak Grove and Drexel Hills.
1943: A fire at the Morris Hotel killed two people and heavily damaged the fourth and fifth floors.
1916: 30 miners were killed in the 1916 Bessie Mine explosion.
1910: Eugene Ely was the first to fly an airplane off of the deck of a ship, the USS Birmingham (CL-2).
1882: O'Brien's Opera House opened with a performance of The Black Crook.

Jack Gotta, born November 14, 1929

Births

2012: "Mayor for a Day" Khy White was born.
1986: UAB quarterback Joe Webb was born.
1957: Robert Simoneau Jr, famed as drag performer "Libertee Belle", was born in Nashua, New Hampshire.
1929: Birmingham Barons baseball player Jimmy Piersall was born.
1929: Birmingham Americans coach Jack Gotta was born in Ironwood, Michigan
1889: Judge Virginia Mayfield was born in Birmingham.

2020: Restaurateur Eli Stevens died.
2010: Architect Don Morrison died.
1974: Actor and football player Johnny Mack Brown died.
1965: Baseball player Ewart "Dixie" Walker died in Leeds.
1918: Aviator John R. Williams died in a training accident at Old Sarum Airfield near Salisbury, England.
1916: 30 miners were killed in the 1916 Bessie Mine explosion.