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Bama Firsts
• Alabama was the first state to declare Christmas a
legal holiday in 1836.
• Mobile held the first Mardi Gras celebration in the
United States in 1830 and is now known as the
“Mother of Mystics.”
• The world's first electric trolley system was intro-
duced in Montgomery in 1886.
• Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the nation's first
aviation school near Montgomery (later to become
Maxwell Air Force Base).
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