* 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.

The Alabama River has three lock and dams between Montgomery and the Mobile River.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

The town has more than twelve murals completed, and will host the Conference along with Dothan, Alabama, and Blakely, Georgia.

Smith has also been honored with induction into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and the St. Louis Walk of Fame, and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Cal Poly.

The contributions made by her and other quilters of Gee's Bend, Alabama has been recognized by the US Postal Service with a series of stamps.

The General has attended the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama ; the U. S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania ; and the Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Alabama is, therefore, entitled to the sovereignty and jurisdiction over all the territory within her limits ... to maintain any other doctrine, is to deny that Alabama has been admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states ... to Alabama belong the navigable waters and soils under them.

The first U. S. Supreme Court case to uphold the ban against involuntary servitude was Bailey v. Alabama ( 1911 ).</ p >< p > Requiring specific performance as a remedy for breach of personal services contracts has regarded as a form of involuntary servitude by some scholars and courts, though other jurisdictions and scholars have rejected this argument ; it is a popular rule in academia and many local jurisdictions, but has never been upheld by higher courts .</ p >

; that during the present year the Alabama Indemnity has been paid, and the charge of the Ashantee War will be met out of revenue ; and that in estimating, as we can now venture to do, the income of the coming year ( and, for the moment assuming the general scale of charge to continue as it was fixed during the last Session ), we do not fear to anticipate as the probable balance a surplus exceeding rather than falling short of 5, 000, 000l ... The first item ... which I have to set down in the financial arrangements proper for the first year is relief, but relief coupled with reform, of local taxation ... It has ... been the happy fortune of Mr. Lowe to bring it income tax down, first from 6d.

** A United States federal judge rules that SCLC has the lawful right to march to Montgomery, Alabama to petition for ' redress of grievances '.

He has written new acoustic works for David Starobin, So Percussion, Nancy Zeltsman, and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.

The center also has employees in California and Alabama.

He has also been cast in a film based on the Maersk Alabama hijacking as Captain Richard Phillips.

It has now been determined that the " Spotted Bass " found in the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers, and their lakes, are a new species, now known as the " Alabama Bass ".

The NERV has been deployed to incidents such as the October 2007 California wildfires ; hurricanes Gustav, Ike, and Katrina ; the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion ; and tornado outbreaks in North Carolina and Alabama in 2011.

In addition to housing many Alabama government agencies, Montgomery has a large military presence due to Maxwell Air Force Base ; public universities Alabama State University, Troy University ( Montgomery campus ), and Auburn University at Montgomery ; private colleges / universities Faulkner University and Huntingdon College ; high-tech manufacturing, including Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama ; and cultural attractions such as the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

Due to its location along the Alabama River and extensive rail connections, Montgomery has and continues to be a regional distribution hub for a wide range of industries.

In Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Ry. Co., the commission had refused to permit abandonment of certain `` uneconomic '' train facilities.

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

Cousin Emma had simply put Miss Theresa Stubblefield, Rome, Italy, on the envelope, had walked up to the post office in Tuxapoka, Alabama, and mailed it with as much confidence as if it had been a birthday card to her next-door neighbor.

At the turn of the century, the former Confederate states had passed new constitutions and electoral laws that effectively disfranchised black voters and, in Alabama, many poor white voters as well.

* 1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center ( NASA had already activated the facility on July 1 ).

After the 1964 season, in fact, there had been a well-publicized bidding war which culminated with the signing, by the AFL's New York Jets, of University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for an unprecedented contract.

Truth learned that her son Peter, then five years old, had been sold illegally by Dumont to an owner in Alabama.

The case involved an advertisement published in The New York Times indicating that officials in Montgomery, Alabama had acted violently in suppressing the protests of African-Americans during the civil rights movement.

It held in Hamilton v. Alabama,, that counsel had to be provided at no expense to defendants in capital cases when they so requested, even if there was no " ignorance, feeble mindedness, illiteracy, or the like.

27 states had called for a constitutional convention on the subject, with 31 states needed to reach the threshold ; Arizona and New Mexico each achieved statehood that year ( bringing the total number of states to 48 ), and were expected to support the motion, while Alabama and Wyoming, already states, had passed resolutions in favor of a convention without formally calling for one.

* September 8 – In Huntsville, Alabama, U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center ( which had been activated by NASA on July 1 ).

In 1837 Augustus attempted to obtain an appointment for James to the United States Military Academy, but the vacancy for his congressional district had already been filled so James was appointed in 1838 by a relative, Reuben Chapman, who represented the First District of Alabama ( where Mary Longstreet lived ).

Although he was born in South Carolina and reared in Georgia, he offered his services to the state of Alabama, which had appointed him to West Point and where his mother still lived.

The war attracted tens of thousands of laborers from around the country, though most were poor whites and blacks from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas — sharecroppers and tenant farmers who had been recruited by Henry J. Kaiser to work in his shipyards.

Despite the landslide victory, Johnson, who carried the South as a whole in the election, lost the Deep South states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina, the first time a Democratic candidate had done so since Reconstruction.

The Upper Towns, located on the Coosa, Tallapoosa and Alabama rivers, were Tuckabatchee, Abhika, Coosa ( Kusa ; the dominant people of East Tennessee and North Georgia during the Spanish explorations ), Itawa ( original inhabitants of the Etowah Indian Mounds ), Hothliwahi ( Ullibahali ), Hilibi, Eufaula, Wakokai, Atasi, Alibamu, Coushatta ( Koasati ; they had absorbed the Kaski / Casqui and the Tali ), and Tuskegee (" Napochi " in the de Luna chronicles ).

As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205, 764 making it the second-largest city in Alabama, after Birmingham, and the 103rd largest in the United States.

The Coushatta and Alabama had gradually moved south and west after the French defeat by the British in 1763 in the Seven Years War.

Iowa, Milwaukee, Tennessee Valley ( which changed its name to Alabama to reflect the state, rather than the region ), Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Bossier-Shreveport, and Spokane all seamlessly moved to the new AFL to join " old " AFL teams Arizona, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Cleveland, along with expansion teams in Dallas and Jacksonville, and the AIFA team in Utah which had originally been in the old AFL.

Meredith conceded that he had little chance of winning unless Governor George Wallace of Alabama entered the presidential race and split the white vote.

At Class D, it was considered on the lowest rung of the minor league ladder, and had six clubs located in the American states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

* May 6 – Richard Shelby, U. S. senator from Alabama

Blount County was created by the Alabama Territorial Legislature on February 6, 1818, formed from land ceded to the federal government by the Creek Nation on August 9, 1814.

It was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on February 6, 1818 from land acquired from the Cherokee Indians in the Treaty of Turkeytown, and was originally called Cotaco County.

Annette Jones Watters of the University of Alabama's Alabama State Data Center cited Coosa as one of eight counties to lose greater than 6 % of its population from 2000 to early 2007.

The Alabama state legislature changed the name to Jones County on August 6, 1868.

The largest self-reported European ancestries in Jefferson County, Alabama are English 9. 7 %( 64, 016 ), " American " 9. 6 %( 63, 015 ), Irish 8. 6 %( 56, 695 ), German 7. 2 %( 47, 690 ).

Limestone County was established by the Alabama Territorial legislature on February 6, 1818.

Marengo County was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on February 6, 1818, from land acquired from the Choctaw Indians by the Treaty of Fort St. Stephens on October 24, 1816.

File: The Tavern Eufaula Alabama. JPG | The Tavern was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 6, 1970.

Blount County was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on 1818 Feb. 6, from land ceded to the Federal government by the Creek Nation on 1814 Aug. 9.

The Black Warrior Council office is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the council's name refers to Chief Tuskaloosa whose name means Black Warrior. Black Warrior Council # 6

On December 6, 2010 the Green Wave Football team won the Class 3A AHSAA State Football Championship and finishing the year 15-0, beating the Hamiton raiders in the Super Six Tournament on Pat Dye Field at Jordan Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama.

Due to the disaster, on August 6, 2011, the University of Alabama held a delayed graduation ceremony for the class of 2011 and awarded 6 students who died in the tornado posthumous degrees.

Louis was born on May 13, 1914 in a ramshackle dwelling on Bell on Chapel Road, located about a 1. 6 km ( 1 mile ) off Alabama's Route 50 and roughly 10 km ( six miles ) north of Lafayette in rural Chambers County, Alabama.

At age 29 on September 17, 1960 he put his vision into reality with ABC's first NCAA college football broadcast from Birmingham, Alabama, between Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs won by Alabama, 21 – 6.

* 1971 NCAA Division I-A national football championship – Nebraska Cornhuskers win 38 – 6 over the University of Alabama Crimson Tide to claim back-to-back National Championship titles on 1 January 1972.

After leaving Fort Williams in the spring of 1814, Jackson's army cut its way through the forest to within 6 miles ( 10 km ) of Chief Menawa's Red Stick camp of Tohopeka, near a bend in the Tallapoosa River, called " Horseshoe Bend ," in central Alabama, east of what is now Alexander City.

The percentage of non-religious people is the highest in the northeastern state of Vermont at 34 %, compared to the Bible Belt state of Alabama, where it is 6 %.

It used to be the state flower of Alabama, being adopted as such on September 6, 1927, but was later rejected in favour of the camellia.

The only favored teams to have won the Music City Bowl are Virginia Tech (− 5 ) over Alabama in the first Music City Bowl in 1998, Auburn (− 3 ) over Wisconsin in 2003, Kentucky (− 7 ) over Florida State in 2007, and Mississippi State (- 6. 5 ) over Wake Forest in 2011.

Richard Craig Shelby ( born May 6, 1934 ) is the senior United States Senator from Alabama.