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1918 - Birmingham–Southern College established. 1919 - Alabama Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs formed in Birmingham. [15] 1920 Progressive Farmer magazine headquartered in Birmingham. [5] Population: 178,806. [14] 1922 - WAPI radio begins broadcasting. [16] 1923 - Traffic lights installed. [14]
The Saltley Handaxe illustrated by John Evans in 1897. The oldest human artefact found within Birmingham is the Saltley Handaxe: a 500,000-year-old brown quartzite hand axe about 100 millimetres (3.9 in) long, discovered in the gravels of the River Rea at Saltley in 1892.
1920 4 September: City of Birmingham Orchestra first rehearses (in a police bandroom). Later this month, its first concert, conducted by Appleby Matthews, opens with ...
They held "control" for 30 years until 1920, when a larger gang, the Birmingham Boys, led by Billy Kimber, overtook them. Although they had disappeared by the 1920s, the name "Peaky Blinders" became synonymous slang for any street gang in Birmingham. In 2013, the name was reused for a BBC Television series entitled Peaky Blinders.
Birmingham Corporation Tramways operated a ... was a pioneer in the development of reserved trackways which served the suburban areas as the city grew in the 1920s ...
Birmingham experienced such rapid growth that it was nicknamed "The Magic City." By the 1920s, Birmingham was the 19th largest city in the U.S. and held more than 30% of the population of the state. Heavy industry and mining were the basis of the economy.
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
The pace of Birmingham's growth during the period from 1881 through 1920 earned its nicknames The Magic City and The Pittsburgh of the South. Much like Pittsburgh , Birmingham's major industries were iron and steel production, plus a major component of the railroading industry, where rails and railroad cars were both manufactured in Birmingham.