Several WHA teams courted Gretzky, notably the Indianapolis Racers and the Birmingham Bulls.

* Birmingham Bulls, a defunct professional ice hockey team

When Jordan returned to the Bulls, he initially wore No. 45 ( which was his number while playing for the Birmingham Barons, a minor-league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox ).

A left winger, Henderson played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames and 5 in the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) for the Toronto Toros and Birmingham Bulls.

Following that season, the Toros relocated to Alabama where they became the Birmingham Bulls.

Rodney Cory Langway ( born May 3, 1957 ) is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) and Birmingham Bulls of the World Hockey Association ( WHA ).

A left-handed shot, Langway was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL in 1977 and by the Birmingham Bulls of the WHA in the same year.

In the WHA, he played for the Toronto Toros and the Birmingham Bulls until his retirement in 1978 at the age of 40.

* Birmingham Bulls, a defunct American ice hockey team from the World Hockey Association and Central Hockey League

* Birmingham Bulls ( American football ), an American football team in the UK

* Birmingham Bulls ( ECHL ), a defunct American ice hockey team from the East Coast Hockey League

* Birmingham Bulldogs or Birmingham Bulls, a British rugby league team

He also played one season in the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) for the Birmingham Bulls.

He spent his junior career with the London Knights, who have since retired his number 5, and played a season in the WHA for the Birmingham Bulls.

His professional career, which began in the WHA with the Birmingham Bulls, lasted from 1978 until 1992.

Players who played for the Birmingham Bulls of the WHA.

sl: Kategorija: Hokejisti Birmingham Bulls

sv: Kategori: Spelare i Birmingham Bulls

The first Steeldogs ownership group, consisting of Charles Felix, David Berkman and Bruce Burge, also owned the Birmingham Bulls hockey franchise.

He then joined the Birmingham Bulls of the World Hockey Association as assistant to coach Glen Sonmor, becoming head coach in 1978 – 79 when Sonmor joined the Minnesota North Stars.

In 2001, the franchise played its inaugural season in Atlantic City after relocating from Birmingham, Alabama, where it was known as the Birmingham Bulls.

He played in a variety of minor leagues before playing four games for the Birmingham Bulls of the WHA during the 1976-77 season.

He is probably best remembered as the owner of The Birmingham Barons baseball team and the namesake of Rickwood Field, the nation's oldest professional baseball park.

A. H. ( Rick ) Woodward, the late Birmingham millionaire industrialist, decided to buy the team in 1910 from J. William McQueen, the Barons owner since 1901.

Her father, also a Unitarian, was Arthur Holden, owner of Holden's Paint Factory in Birmingham and a philanthropist.

* Cindy Streit, the owner of Etiquette Training Service in Birmingham, Alabama, had claimed mistreatment and fraud after Borat attended a dinner party and subjected her and the other guests to " ridicule and humiliation ".

* Kathie Martin, the owner of Etiquette Training School of Birmingham, filed a lawsuit on similar grounds, which was dismissed on Sep. 3, 2008 along with the Streit and Psenicska actions.

Tony Mole, former owner of Workington Comets and who resurrected Birmingham Brummies in 2008, attempted to submit a Planning Application to Dudley MBC in a bid to return speedway to the Cradley area.

HealthSouth Corporation, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is the nation ’ s largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitative hospitals.

Flagg, born in Birmingham, Alabama, is the daughter of Marion Leona ( née LeGore ) and William Hurbert Neal, Jr., who was a small-business owner and projectionist.

Chances became one of the foremost glass makers in the world, pioneering the use of glass in items such as UV Lens ( optics ) | lens es and glass syringe s. Another famous lighthouse Split Point Lighthouse in Australia uses a Birmingham made Fresnel lens but the factory was bombed during war-time and the essential formulae for making the unique lens crystal were lost1832: William Chance, owner of a Birmingham iron merchants, invests in his brothers failing glass works in nearby Smethwick.

The plant is named after the late Joseph McConnell Farley, an American attorney born in Birmingham, Alabama who became president of Alabama Power ( owner of the facility ) from 1969 to 1989 and was later CEO of Southern Nuclear Operating Company ; both companies are subsidiaries of Southern Company.

Wayne Gretzky was heavily recruited by Birmingham Bulls owner John Bassett to be part of the youth movement.

It was later home to William Withering and since 1936, thanks to negotiations initiated by The Birmingham Civic Society with the owner, Calthorpe Estates, it has been the clubhouse for Edgbaston Golf Club.

The team's owner at the time, Doug Kirchhofer, was granted an IHL franchise who chose to move the Cyclones name to that franchise and relocate the ECHL franchise to Birmingham, Alabama to form the new Birmingham Bulls.

1963 -- The WEDR call letters have been in South Florida since 1963 when the station's then owner Ed Rivers acquired them from an AM radio station in Birmingham, Alabama.

The portion of the former L & N line from just north of Attalla ( at its junction the NC & StL line ) through Oneonta to Birmingham was sold to a quarry owner along the line, who intended to operate it as an independent shortline.

John Morrison, hailing from Moseley, Birmingham, played bass guitar in indie band L Cage which also featured Dean O ' Loughlin from Big Brother and Ernest Valentino Hendricks ( owner of Birmingham record label Fortune and Glory ).

The first paper on boxing was published in the late 18th century by successful Birmingham boxer ' William Futrell ' who remained undefeated until his one hour and seventeen minute fight at Smitham Bottom, Croydon, on July 9, 1788 against a much younger " Gentleman " John Jackson which was attended by the Prince of Wales.

* John Birmingham ( astronomer )

Its sponsors included John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A. S. Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victor Gollancz, Dr I. Grunfeld, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev.

He sang for troops in Birmingham Hospital with John Macchia and hired his childhood friend Marco Rizo to play piano and arrange for the orchestra.

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.

Lewis Paul patented the Roller Spinning machine and the flyer-and-bobbin system for drawing wool to a more even thickness, developed with the help of John Wyatt in Birmingham.

* John Walker, one of the Birmingham Six accused of bombings in England in 1974

* The 2005 John Birmingham novel Designated Targets features a cameo of Philby, under orders from Moscow to assist Otto Skorzeny's mission to assassinate Winston Churchill.

In the same year James Watt visited Birmingham on the recommendation of his business patron John Roebuck, being shown around the Soho Manufactory by Small and Darwin in Boulton's absence.

The ' resonant ' cavity magnetron variant of the earlier magnetron tube was invented by John Randall and Harry Boot in 1940 at the University of Birmingham, England.

In 1940, at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, John Randall and Harry Boot produced a working prototype similar to Hollman's cavity magnetron, but added liquid cooling and a stronger cavity.

Quills went into decline after the invention of the metal pen, which was first patented in America in 1810 and then mass produced by 1860, although mass production began in Great Britain as early as 1822 by John Mitchell of Birmingham.

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.

* John Baskerville, British printer and typographer ( founder of Baskerville font, Birmingham ).

** John Henry Newman founds the first Oratory in the English-speaking world when he establishes the Birmingham Oratory at ' Maryvale ', Old Oscott, England.

In 1738, Lewis Paul and John Wyatt, of Birmingham, England, patented the roller spinning machine, and the flyer-and-bobbin system for drawing cotton to a more even thickness using two sets of rollers that traveled at different speeds.

* John Birmingham ( various )

* Birmingham ( crater ), a lunar crater named for John Birmingham

* Birmingham, a star in the constellation Cygnus, named for John Birmingham

In 1828, Lord John Russell suggested that Parliament repeat the idea by abolishing the corrupt boroughs of Penryn and East Retford, and by transferring their seats to Manchester and Birmingham.

Soon after, John Wright of Birmingham, England discovered that potassium cyanide was a suitable electrolyte for gold and silver electroplating.

* Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham ( 2004 ): On January 15, UNPROFLEET, the fleet sailing under the command of Admiral Phillip Kolhammer off the coast of East Timor, disappears, sent back in time to June 2, 1942.