2013 Event In Birmingham, United Kingdom, eleven members of a terror cell are jailed for planning an attack to exceed the atrocities committed on July 7 and 9/11 2011 Event Rioting takes place in English cities including Manchester, liverpool, Salford, Birmingham and Nottingham; police from Scotland are called in to help 2004 Death Carl Wayne, Colin David Tooley, actor, lead vocalist 'The Move', 1960's Birmingham rock group, dies of esophageal cancer, at age 61 1998 Event Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Alabama bombed, 1 killed 1996 Event Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter) 1995 Event Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton) 1995 Event Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg) 1995 Event Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham U.K. won by Gritshuk and Platov (RUS) 1995 Event Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny 1995 Event Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN) 1995 Event Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN) 1995 Event Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise 1991 Event 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 and Mont beats Birmingham 20-5 1991 Event British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment 1990 Event Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF 1985 Event Race riot in Birmingham England 1982 Event Beth Daniel wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic 1982 Event Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB) 1981 Death Bill Hopkins, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1979 Event Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham 1978 Event Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic 1977 Event Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic 1977 Birthday Amber Benson, born in Birmingham, Alabama, known for playing Tara Maclay on television show, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', produced, starred in film, 'Chance' 1976 Event Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic 1975 Birthday Andrew Symonds, cricketer, Birmingham, brilliant Qld and Gloucs batsman 1975 Event Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic 1975 Birthday Scott Tucker, Birmingham, Alabama, 400m/800m freestyle relay 1996 Olympics 1974 Event 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida 1974 Event Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic 1973 Birthday John Zimmerman, Birmingham, Alabama, pairs skater, & Steigler 1973 Event Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic 1972 Event Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic 1970 Birthday Nick Castaneda, Birmingham, Alabama, pairs skater, & Dawn Piepenbrink 1968 Birthday LeShundra Nathan, born in Birmingham, Alabama, heptathlete 1967 Birthday Mike Mordecai, Birmingham, Alabama, infielder, Atlanta Braves 1965 Event WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting 1965 Birthday Matt Jackson, Birmingham, Michigan, Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 Payless 1964 Birthday Courtney Cox, born in Birmingham, Alabama, actress, Family Ties, Monica-Friends 1964 Birthday Courteney Cox, born in Birmingham, Alabama, actress, known for playing Monica on 'Friends' television sitcom, appeared in 'Cougar Town' television series, films include 'Scream' 1963 Birthday Corinne Russell, Birmingham England, comedienne, Benny Hill Show 1963 Event 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham 1963 Event Race riot in Birmingham Alabama 1963 Event Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama 1963 Event Birmingham police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators 1962 Birthday Nancy Ramsbottom, born in Birmingham, Alabama, LPGA golfer, 1994 McCall's-2nd 1962 Birthday Amy Read, Birmingham, Michigan, golfer, 1994 Healthsouth Palm Beach-15th 1962 Birthday Philip Brown, Birmingham Engl, 4x400m runner 1984 Olympics silver 1961 Event Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal 1961 Birthday Carl Lewis, born in Birmingham, Alabama, American Athlete 1960 Birthday Stephen Brent Lowery, Birmingham, Alabama, PGA golfer, 1994 Sprint 1960 Birthday David Steele, Birmingham, rock keyboardist, Fine Young Cannibals 1959 Birthday Mary Murphy, Birmingham, Michigan, LPGA golfer, 1990 U.S. Women's Open-5th 1958 Birthday Elaine Crosby, born in Birmingham, Michigan, LPGA golfer, 1989 Mazda Japan Classic 1958 Birthday Julie Gholson, born in Birmingham, Alabama, actress, Where the Lilies Bloom 1958 Birthday Toyah Wilcox, Birmingham, England, rocker, I Want to Be Free 1957 Birthday David Bintley, born in Huddersfield, England, choreographer, artistic director, The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet 1956 Birthday Jaki Graham, born in Birmingham, England, singer, 1994 hit 'Ain't Nobody', number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart 1956 Event Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites 1956 Event Pirates and Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white 1955 Event WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting 1955 Birthday Tony Miles, born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996 1955 Birthday Simon Rattle, born in England, orchestra conductor, Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1954 Birthday Judith Weir, born in Cambridge, England, composer, professor of music at Cardiff University, Artistic Director, Spitafields Festival, Composer in Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1953 Event Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group 1953 Event 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Michigan 1953 Birthday Ron Jackson, born in Birmingham, Alabama, professional baseball player, played Major League Baseball, hitting coach for Boston Red Sox, 2003 - 2006 1951 Birthday Lynne Jones, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, Labour party, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Selly Oak 1950 Birthday Sheila Young Ochowicz, Birmingham, Michigan, speed skater, Olympic-gold/sil-76 1950 Birthday Keith Bradley, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, life peer, Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington 1949 Birthday Geezer Butler, born in Birmingham, rocker, Black Sabbath 1949 Birthday Terry "Geezer" Butler, born in Birmingham, rock bassist, Black Sabbath 1949 Event WBRC TV channel 6 in Birmingham, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting 1948 Birthday Kate Jackson, born in Birmingham, Alabama, actress, Rookies, Charlie's Angels 1948 Birthday Nell Carter, born in Birmingham, Alabama, actress, Nell-Gimme a Break, Lobo 1948 Birthday Bill Ward, born in Birmingham, England, musician, vocalist, drummer for Black Sabbath, a British heavy metal band, sang lead vocals on Technical Ecstacy, Never Say Die! 1947 Birthday Simon Bates, born in Birmingham, English, UK disc jockey, worked at BBC Radio 1 1976 - 1993, and Classic FM 1947 Birthday Emmylou Harris, born in Birmingham, Alabama, country singer, Together Again 1946 Birthday Hubie Green, Birmingham, Alabama, PGA golfer, U.S. Open 1977 1946 Birthday Bev[erley] Bevan, Birmingham England, rock drummer, ELO 1946 Birthday Clare Short, born in Birmingham, England, politician, left wing, Secretary of State for Internal Development, supports legislating cannabis, critical of Israel 1946 Birthday Andy Brown, rock drummer, Fortunes Birmingham 1945 Birthday Roy Wood, Birmingham England, rock vocalist/celloist, ELO 1945 Birthday John Lodge, born in Birmingham, England, musician, singer, songwriter, bass guitar player, member of The Moody Blues rock band, created songs 'Candle of Life', 'Eyes of a Child', 'Send Me No Wine' 1944 Birthday Bev Bevan, born in Sparkhill, Birmingham, England, born Beverley Bevan, rocker musician, played drums, percussion, original member of ELO, founded Electric Light Orchestra Part II, toured as a drummer for band Black Sabbath 1944 Birthday Fannie Flagg, Birmingham, Alabama, actress/comediene, Candid Camera 1944 Birthday Rick Price, born in Birmingham, England, bassist, rock music, bass player, played with Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, The Move 1944 Birthday J R Cobb, Birmingham, Alabama, rocker, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV 1943 Birthday Carl Wayne, born in Birmingham, England, Colin David Tooley, actor, lead vocalist 'The Move', 1960's Birmingham rock group 1943 Birthday Edward Cowie, born in Birmingham, England, composer, orchestral, chamber, choral works, conductor, painter, author 1943 Birthday John Lodge, Birmingham, bassist, Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin 1943 Birthday Bill Hopkins, born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1942 Birthday Mike Pinder, Birmingham England, rocker, Moody Blues 1942 Birthday Earl F. Hilliard, born in Birmingham, Alabama, Representative-D-Alabama 1993 - 2003 1941 Birthday Jackson Hill, born in Birmingham, Alabama, composer, vocal music, teacher, Ph.D. Musicology, teacher, Duke University, Bucknell University 1941 Event Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham) 1940 Event German air raid on Birmingham fails 1940 Event German air raid on Birmingham fails 1940 Birthday Clint Warwick, born in Birmingham England, bassist, Moody Blues, 1939 Birthday Jim Yester, born in Birmingham, Alabama, rock vocalist and guitarist, Association 1939 Birthday Peter Phillips, born in Birmingham, England, artist, painter, sculpture, screenprint, lithography, pioneer, Pop Art Movement 1937 Birthday Jimmy Jones, born in Birmingham, Alabama, African-American rocker, singer, songwriter, performed with doo-wop group The Berliners, wrote 'Handy Man' recorded by the Sparks of Rhythm 1934 Birthday Louise Fletcher, Birmingham, Alabama, actress, One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest 1934 Birthday Richard Shelby, born in Birmingham, Alabama, Representative-D-Alabama 1979 - 1987, Senator-D-Alabama 1987- 1933 Birthday Henry Hartsfield, Jr., Birmingham, Alabama, astro, STS-4, STS 41-D, STS 61A 1933 Birthday Wayne Rogers, born in Birmingham, Alabama, actor, M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs 1931 Birthday Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author, Real Lace: America's Irish Rich 1930 Birthday Ala Odetta, Odetta Holmes, Birmingham, folk singer/actress 1930 Birthday Odetta, Holmes, Birmingham, Alabama, folk singer, Sanctuary 1930 Birthday Stanley Wells, director, Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham 1928 Birthday Ezra Sims, born in Birmingham, Alabama, composer of microtonal music, Joseph Maneri adopted his system of notation, composed in quarter tones, received Guggenheim Fellowship 1926 Birthday Bill Justis, born in Birmingham, Alabama, musician, musical arranger, rock and roll pioneer, celebrated for Grammy Hall of Fame song "Raunchy" and Australian hit "Tamoure" 1925 Birthday Tony Hancock, Birmingham England, actor, Rebel, Wrong Box 1924 Birthday Tony Britton, born in Birmingham, England, actor, Day of Jackal, Girl in my Soup 1922 Birthday Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress, Astonished Heart 1920 Birthday Marjorie S. Holt, born in Birmingham, Alabama, Representative-R-Maryland 1973 - 1987 1918 Birthday Skitch Henderson, born in Birmingham, England, orchestra leader, Tonight Show 1917 Birthday R G Armstrong, born in Birmingham, Alabama, actor, T.H.E. Cat 1916 Birthday Walker Percy, Birmingham, Alabama, writer, Adventures of a Bad Catholic 1913 Birthday Mel Allen, born in Birmingham, Alabama, sportscaster, voice of New York Yankees 1911 Birthday Gail Patrick, Birmingham, Alabama, actress, My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy 1903 Birthday Paul Page, Birmingham, Alabama, actor, Girl From Havana, Moth 1903 Birthday Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor, Alfred-Batman 1900 Event Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham 1896 Birthday Melville Cooper, Birmingham England, TV panelist, I Got a Secret 1896 Birthday Michael Balcon, Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon 1895 Birthday Fay Holden, Birmingham England, actress, Mother-Andy Hardy films 1895 Event FA Cup stolen in Birmingham 1890 Event Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham 1865 Birthday George A. Birmingham, Reverend James Owen Hannay, novelist 1863 Death Frederick William Faber, theologian, wrote 'Faith of Our Fathers', 'My God, how wonderful thou art', 'Oh, gift of gifts', founded religious community in Cotton Hall, Birmingham, dies 1863 Event Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid) 1839 Event Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England 1822 Birthday Francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist and geneticist 1814 Birthday Frederick William Faber, born in Calverley, England, theologian, wrote 'Faith of Our Fathers', 'My God, how wonderful thou art', 'Oh, gift of gifts', founded religious community in Cotton Hall, Birmingham
