* 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.

She was later a partner in the Washington, D. C. office of the Birmingham, Alabama law firm Balch & Bingham.

On 25 August 1946 the Blue Angels switched to the Grumman F8F Bearcat | F8F-1 Bearcat and in 1947 introduced the famous " diamond " formation at the World Air Carnival in Birmingham, Alabama | Birmingham, Alabama.

* Cumberland School of Law, in Birmingham, Alabama

He was elected as the 13th President of Birmingham – Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama on March 21, 2011.

* 1989 – Walter LeRoy Moody begins his terrorist bombing streak when he sends Judge Robert Smith Vance a bomb in the mail, instantly killing him near his house in Birmingham, Alabama.

Constraint-induced aphasia therapy ( CIAT ) is based on similar principles as constraint-induced movement therapy developed by Dr. Edward Taub at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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* 1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another.

* Legion Field, a stadium in Birmingham, Alabama

* 1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the " Birmingham campaign " protesters.

* 2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.

* 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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

* 1963 – The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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 a speech on October 26, 1921, given in segregated Birmingham, Alabama Harding advocated civil rights for African Americans ; the first President to openly advocate black political, educational, and economic equality during the 20th century.

* April 3 – SCLC volunteers kick off the Birmingham campaign ( Birmingham, Alabama ) against racial segregation in the United States with a sit-in.

Fahrenheit 451 inspired the Birmingham Repertory Theatre production " Time Has Fallen Asleep in the Afternoon Sunshine ", which was performed at the Birmingham Central Library in April 2012.

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

Harris ' songs " Boulder to Birmingham ", from her 1975 album Pieces of the Sky, and " The Road ", from her 2011 album Hard Bargain, are tributes to Parsons.

Boulton, Darwin and Whitehurst were in turn introduced by Michell to Benjamin Franklin when he travelled to Birmingham in July 1758 " to improve and increase Acquaintance among Persons of Influence ", and Franklin returned in 1760 to conduct experiments with Boulton on electricity and sound.

The group at this time is sometimes referred to as the " Lunar circle ", though this is a later description used by historians, and the group themselves used a variety of less specific descriptions, including " Birmingham Philosophers " or simply " fellow-schemers ".

Gilliam attended Birmingham High School where he was class president and senior prom King, was voted " Most Likely to Succeed ", and achieved straight A's.

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

* " Birmingham ", for the AEGON Classic, formerly the DFS Classic, a tennis tournament held in Birmingham, England

A major exhibition, " Turner's Britain ", with material ( including The Fighting Temeraire ) on loan from around the globe, was held at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery from 7 November 2003 to 8 February 2004.

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 ".

* Sheet music for " Come with the gipsy bride ; Heart bowed down ", Birmingham, AL: Cawthon & McIntosh.

* March 15 – " Heartbeat ' 86 ", a charity concert for the Birmingham Children's Hospital, is held at the NEC.

In 1862, Elihu Burritt, the American Consul in Birmingham, described the region as " black by day and red by night ", because of the smoke and grime generated by the intense manufacturing activity and the glow from furnaces at night.

Residents of Birmingham ( Brummies ) meanwhile often refer to their Black Country neighbours as " Yam Yams ", a reference to the use of " Yow am " ( or yow'm ) instead of " You are ".

" I worked in all the theatres in Birmingham so I'd go to drama school from 10 to 5, then I'd go to the Alex Theatre or the Hippodrome Theatre and I'd dress the stars who were on tour ", she recalled.

In 1956, the first MSc programme in Geotechnical Engineering commenced under the title of " Foundation Engineering ", and has been run annually at the University of Birmingham since.

Though Powell referred to the speech as " the Birmingham speech ", it is otherwise known as the " Rivers of Blood " speech, a title derived from its allusion to a line from Virgil's Aeneid.

Since 2007, the city of Leeds has honored John Henry's legend during an annual September festival, held on the third weekend in September, called the Leeds Downtown Folk Festival & John Henry Celebration .< ref >" Free Leeds Downtown Folk Festival is Saturday & Sunday ", Christie Dedman -- The Birmingham News The Birmingham News, September 15, 2011 < p >" John Henry in Leeds ", Leeds Folk Festival </ ref >

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

* " Birmingham " ( 1996 ), a song by Amanda Marshall

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

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

*" 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.