He has honorary doctorates from University of Birmingham ( 1987 ), York University ( 1988 ), the University of Athens ( 1995 ), Macquarie University ( 1996 ), and Lingnan University ( 1999 ).

* 1996, National Sea Life Centre, Birmingham, UK

* 19 June 1996: Greenwich Peninsula site selected over Birmingham by the Millennium Commission.

The first major tournament final to be decided by such a goal was the 1995 Auto Windscreens Shield Final where Birmingham beat Carlisle United 1-0 with a goal from Paul Tait, followed by the 1996 European Football Championship, won by Germany over the Czech Republic.

De Meyer also took over as vocalist for Birmingham 6 for their 1996 album Error of Judgment.

In 1995, West Midlands Travel, the formerly municipally-owned bus network of Birmingham and the West Midlands, was acquired and renamed Travel West Midlands in September 1996.

* Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 1996

Since 1996 Chiltern Railways has used the lines south of Aylesbury for local services into London, and has used the Alternative Route south of Haddenham and the widened lines south of Neasden as the southern part of its intercity main line from Birmingham to London.

It was set up at the privatisation of British Rail in 1996, and operates local passenger trains from Marylebone station in London to Aylesbury and main-line trains on the Chiltern Main Line to Birmingham Snow Hill with its associated branches.

Cantona was confirmed as United's captain for the 1996 – 97 season following the departure of Steve Bruce to Birmingham City.

* Robin Cooper, The Evolving Mind: Buddhism, Biology and Consciousness, Windhorse ( Birmingham UK 1996 )

There have also been several radio plays, a musical ( 2000 ), a ballet " Far from the Madding Crowd " by David Bintley for Birmingham Royal Ballet ( 1996 ), and an opera, Far from the Madding Crowd by Andrew Downes ( 2006 ).

In April 1996 he was sent back to Belmarsh after taking a doctor hostage at Birmingham.

* Birmingham, Steven, Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address, 1996, ISBN 0-8156-0338-X.

In the League Cup final against Birmingham City, the club's first cup final since 1996, he captained the side and scored in the 30th minute.

In 1991, he suggested to the Secretary of State for Wales the use of the traditional county names Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire and Monmouthshire for unitary authorities in Wales In a 1996 debate, declaring he was honorary president of the ABC, he noted his approval of the abolition of the postal counties, meaning that " people who live in places like " Birmingham, Walsall and Coventry can now use in their addresses the ancient pre-1974 counties ".

* Birmingham University article 1996

The device was selected Voice Integration Product of the Year at the 1996 Networking Industry Awards in Birmingham, England.

* Matt Dunigan – player ( QB ), 2006 ( Edmonton Eskimos 1983 – 87 ; BC Lions 1988 – 89 ; Toronto Argonauts 1990 – 91 ; Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1992 – 94 ; Birmingham Barracudas 1995 ; Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1996 ; Calgary Stampeders 2004 as coach / GM ).

Early in the 1995 – 96 season, manager Roy Evans loaned him out to Barnsley and Norwich ( where he scored once in the League Cup against Birmingham City ), and in February 1996, he left Liverpool to take over as player-manager of Swansea City.

( ref: Carl Chinn ( 1996 ) Brum Undaunted: Birmingham During the Blitz, Birmingham Library Services ) During World War II, West Indians had arrived as part of the colonial war effort, where they worked in Birmingham munitions factories.

* Carl Chinn ( 1996 ), Brum Undaunted: Birmingham During the Blitz, Birmingham Library Services

Today the Christadelphian body remains divided into " fellowships " ( of which in the UK it is estimated that there are 23 ), the largest being the Central fellowship, named after the now-defunct Birmingham Central ecclesia, once its largest and most influential ecclesia.

Each fellowship has a statement of faith, the most common of which is the Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith ( BASF ), named after an ecclesia in Birmingham.

* Algar, N., " Hopper at Birmingham ," in Sight and Sound ( London ), Summer 1982

In 1782, Mary Sr ( the governess ) married Joseph Day ( 1745 – 1811 ), a Birmingham merchant, and moved away.

Venues used since 1990 include Manchester City's now demolished Maine Road stadium, Manchester United's Old Trafford Stadium, Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium, Arsenal's former home, Highbury ( since redeveloped as housing ), London's Wembley Stadium, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and Aston Villa's Villa Park in Birmingham.

* Tessa Sidey ( ed ), Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite, ( 2008, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery ISBN 978-1-904832-56-0 )

In 1969 it recommended a system of single-tier unitary authorities for the whole of England, apart from three metropolitan areas of Merseyside, Selnec ( Greater Manchester ) and West Midlands ( Birmingham and the Black Country ), which were to have both a metropolitan council and district councils.

When a canal was built through the land his body was placed in storage in a warehouse for several years before being secretly deposited in the crypt of Christ Church ( demolished 1899 ), Birmingham.

* Joseph Smith ( footballer ) ( 1889 – 1916 ), known as Joe Smith, English footballer with Birmingham F. C.

In June 2006, after the General Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama changed policy ( details ), both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups praised the resolution.

* Mike Seal ( born 1970 ), the Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Her father, John W. Bullock ( born 1925 ), was a United States Army employee and part-time voice coach from Birmingham, Alabama, and her mother, Helga D. Meyer ( 1942 – 2000 ), was a German opera singer and voice teacher.

In the United Kingdom, there were over 20 teams attending this years Junior Nationals ( including a coach's team, who played purely for fun ), which were held in Sutton Coldfield Birmingham.

In 1775 he was appointed physician to Birmingham General Hospital ( at the suggestion of Erasmus Darwin, a physician and founder member of the Lunar Society ), but in 1783 he diagnosed himself as having pulmonary tuberculosis and went twice to Portugal hoping the better winter climate would improve his health ; it didn't.

The following year he leased Edgbaston Hall ( now home to a golf club and nature reserve ), in Birmingham, England.

The XFL chose unusual names for its franchises, most of which either referenced images of uncontrolled insanity ( Maniax, Rage, Xtreme ), evil ( Demons ) or criminal activity ( Enforcers reference to mob enforcer s, Hitmen, Outlaws, and the Birmingham Blast ).

After outrage from Birmingham residents ( who felt that the word ' Blast ' may have been misconstrued as a reference to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, as well as Eric Rudolph's 1998 bombing of a local abortion clinic ), the XFL changed the name of the Birmingham team to the more benign " Birmingham Thunderbolts ".

* " Birmingham " ( 1974 ), a song by Randy Newman from the album Good Old Boys

* " Birmingham " ( 2001 ), a song by Drive-By Truckers from the album Southern Rock Opera

* " Birmingham, Alabama ", a song recorded by Harry Belafonte released on the RCA compilation All-Time Greatest Hits, Vols.

* " Birmingham Blues ", a song from ELO's 1977 album Out of the Blue

* " Birmingham ( We Are Safe )", a song by the David Crowder * Band from the album Church Music

The event would inspire the African-American poet Dudley Randall's opus, " The Ballad of Birmingham ", as well as jazz musician John Coltrane's song " Alabama ".

*" Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six ," a song by The Pogues in support of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four

* The song " Birmingham Sunday ", composed by Richard Farina and most famously recorded by Joan Baez in 1964, chronicled the events and aftermath of the bombing.

* The song " Ronnie and Neil " on the Drive-By Truckers ' album Southern Rock Opera includes the line " church blows up in Birmingham, four little black girls killed, for no goddamn good reason ".

* The song " Birmingham Jail " by Chatham County Line on the album IV.

Edislia Rombley's 1998 entry ( Hemel en Aarde ) remains the Netherlands ' most successful post-1975 song, finished fourth in Birmingham.

" Lost and Found " ( which Grant described as " an urban love song ") became the first single to promote the collection, and would reach # 12 in the UK singles chart in May 2006, after completing their delayed winter tour, which ended at the LG Arena in Birmingham in front of 8, 000 fans.

* " Home Taping's Killing Music " is also the title of a short song by Misty's Big Adventure, a band from Birmingham, which takes the implications of this slogan to their illogical conclusion.

His commissions have included The Marshes of Glynn for the Royal opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham in 1986 ; Centenary Fire Dances for the City of Birmingham ’ s Centenary Festival of Fireworks and Music ; an Overture for the Three Choirs Festival ; songs for the Cantamus Girls Choir ; song cycles for mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker and tenor John Mitchinson for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 ; anthems for the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service ; Sonata for 8 Horns for the Horn Octet of the University of New Mexico ; Suite for 6 Horns for the Vienna Horn Society ; Song of the Eagle for the James Madison University Flute Choir of Virginia ; Concerto for Two Pianos for the Duo Scaramouche ; Sonata for 8 Pianists for soloists from France, Italy and Britain ; Mela Kamavardhani for performances by Indo-Jazz Fusions in Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay ; Fanfare for Madam Speaker, for the Installation of the Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP as Chancellor of the Open University in 1994 ; Concerto for Two Guitars for Simon Dinnigan and Fred T. Baker with Strings from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Concert Overture ' Towards a New Age ' for the 150th anniversary of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, premiered in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; and Suite for Brass Sextet for the Czech Philharmonic Brass Sextet.

The Ani DiFranco song Hello Birmingham, from her 1999 album To The Teeth, was written as a response to the Slepian murder.

Shaun's arrangement of St. Patricks Breastplate titled ' The Deer's Cry ', first used on the soundtrack of the TV documentary ' Who Bombed Birmingham ' and later included on his album The Pilgrim, is probably his most requested song.

* Umphrey's Mcgee covered the song during a performance at the Birmingham Southern College on 4 / 9 / 05, however they have played it many times before.

In the 2006 DVD documentary The Classic Artists Series: The Moody Blues ( DVD UK, released October 2006 ), Mike Pinder, the former keyboard player of Birmingham R & B band The Moody Blues, states that the inspiration for the song actually rests with an incident that happened to them — a groupie climbing into an open bathroom window in the band's home and spending the night with band member Ray Thomas.

Birmingham City have also adapted the song and their fans sing the song about Chris Burke.