24/09/2025
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF BIRMINGHAM!
💚 Birmingham, UK: The UK’s 2nd largest city, famous for the Industrial Revolution and music icons like Black Sabbath, UB40, The Beat & ELO.
🤎 Birmingham, Saskatchewan (Canada): Once a village (1908–1918) with a post office until 1970. Settled by English pioneers, many left for WWI, later waves were mostly Ukrainian. About 10 km NW of Melville.
🩷 Birmingham, Alabama (USA): “The Magic City,” booming from steel. Home to the 16th Street Baptist Church, site of the 1963 Civil Rights bombing (now a national monument).
💙 Birmingham, Connecticut (USA): A planned 1830s “new town” in Derby, built around Birmingham Green with three churches & the Sterling Opera House.
🧡 Birmingham, Indiana – Miami County: A small community with a post office (1868–1901).
❤️ Birmingham, Indiana – Tippecanoe County: Another tiny “Birmingham” noted by the U.S. Geographic Names System.
💜 Birmingham, Iowa: Known for its Homecoming, running since 1882, one of Iowa’s oldest festivals.
💛 Birmingham, Kansas: A prairie hamlet with a post office (1888–1942).
🩶 Birmingham, Michigan: A walkable Detroit-area city once served by the interurban rail (1890s–1931).
🩵 Birmingham, Missouri: A village near the old ASARCO lead smelter, later a major EPA cleanup site.
🖤 Birmingham, New Jersey: Still marked on maps, home to a longstanding chemical works now run by LANXESS.
🤍 Birmingham, Ohio – Erie County: Original home of TV weatherman Dick Goddard’s Woollybear Festival.
💖 Birmingham, Ohio – Coshocton County: Now a ghost town, remembered in county histories.
💚 Birmingham, Pennsylvania – Huntingdon County: Borough of ~90 people, home to Grier School & the geologic “Birmingham Window.”
🤎 Birmingham, Pennsylvania – Allegheny County (Pittsburgh): Once a separate borough, merged into Pittsburgh in the 1870s.