1985
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1985 was the 114th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.
Events
- The Redmont Hotel celebrated its grand re-opening after extensive renovations,
- The Birmingham Museum of Art opened its first crowd-drawing exhibit, Armand Hammer Collection
- The Magic City Art Connection's festival jurors were Harvey K. Littleton and Elaine Horwitch.
- May: Birmingham AIDS Outreach was founded.
- August 11: The Heaviest Corner on Earth was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Sports
- The Birmingham Barons changed affiliations to the Chicago White Sox
Awards
- Tobias Wolff's 1984 novella The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
- Bo Berry, Edward A. Brown, Henry Caffey, Andrew Fair, Howard Funderburg, W. C. Handy, Jerome Hopkins, Everett Lawler, James Lowe, Willie Richardson, Lee Stanfield, Jonny Williams were inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Honorary inductees were Richard Arrington, Jr, Gloria Curry, J. Garrick Hardy, C. W. Hayes, David Vann and Lewis White.
Works
- A monument of Bear Bryant was erected outside Legion Field
- Blonde Heat, film produced by David F. Friedman
Books
- Back in the World (1985), a collection of short stories by Tobias Wolff
- Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism by Angela Davis ISBN 0913175110
Buildings
People
Births
Graduations
Deaths
- See also List of Birmingham homicides in 1985
See Also
Context
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