1935
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1935 was the 64th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.
Events
- The Alabama Highway Patrol was founded with former Jefferson County Sheriff Walter McAdory as its director.
- The United States government purchased the former Trussville Furnace site for the planned Cahaba Village housing project.
- The North Birmingham Church of God was founded by Herman Drummond.
- WBRC-AM began airing NBC Radio Network programming.
- The Birmingham School of the Bible held its first classes.
- The Personnel Board of Jefferson County was founded.
- Floyd and Lallouise McGraw planted a live Christmas tree at Vincent's Town Hall.
- Frank Hartley Anderson founded the Southern Printmaker's Society.
- Donald Beatty, piloting a Sikorsky S-43, set a speed record for a flight between the continental United States and the Panama Canal Zone.
Business
- The Drummond Company was founded.
- Theodore Swann sold the Swann Chemical Company.
- Walker Mattison took over as manager of the Pickwick Club.
- Glenn Messer sold his interest in the Messer Field airfield.
- The Waters family purchased the Lyric Theatre.
- O'Neal Steel established a service center at its North Avondale plant.
- The Brown-Service Funeral Company purchased the James Van Hoose residence on 20th Street South for its new headquarters.
Sports
- January 1: The 1934 Alabama Crimson Tide football team completed a national championship season by beating Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
- June 23: Legrant Scott hit a record 4 doubles in a game for the Birmingham Barons against the Atlanta Crackers.
- Jim Hayes pitched in seven games for the Washington Senators.
- Wedo Martini finished his Major League career with the Philadelphia A's.
- 1935 Birmingham Barons
- The 1935 Alabama Crimson Tide football team went 6-2-1
- Billy Bancroft succeeded Shorty Propst as coach of the Howard College Bulldogs football team.
- Howard Bailey appeared in one game with the Philadelphia Eagles.
- Rudy York was selected as the Texas League's Most Valuable Player.
Works
- Robert Van de Graaff patented the Van de Graaff generator.
- Mississippi and Rumba, films starring Gail Patrick
Books
- Black to Nature, and With Benefit of Clergy, novels by Octavus Roy Cohen
Buildings
- The Blach's building was extesively remodeled.
- The Carver Theatre opened on 4th Avenue North.
- The Grant's Mill Road bridge over Lake Purdy was constructed.
- The Horton Mill Bridge over the Locust Fork River in Oneonta was completed.
- A Lane Park Arboretum was completed with the planting of 5,000 trees by the Works Progress Administration and Birmingham Federation of Garden Clubs.
- A new Loveman's building was constructed in place of the one destroyed by a 1934 fire.
- The New Ideal building was completed.
- Construction of Smithfield Court housing project began.
- The Tennessee Coal Iron & Railroad Company opened a new Tin Mill at its Fairfield Works.
- A bridge over the John Allen Branch connecting Alabaster and Siluria was completed.
Music
- "The Object of My Affection" by the Boswell Sisters
People
- Hugo Black was apponted to the Senate Committee on Education and Labor.
- Sonny Blount studied at Alabama A&M University.
- Octavus Roy Cohen moved to Hollywood to write screenplays.
- Claude Fore succeeded Knox Wooley as Shelby County Sheriff.
- Betty Lou Gerson began her radio acting career on "Arnold Grimm's Daughter".
- Bibb Graves succeeded Benjamin Miller as Governor of Alabama.
- Birmingham Police Department dispatcher Claude Gray began working at WAPI-AM.
- William Grubb retired from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
- Arthur Harman succeeded Oliver Carmichael as President of Alabama College, State College for Women.
- Thomas Knight succeeded Hugh Merrill as Lieutenant Governor of Alabama.
- Abraham Mesch succeeded E. M. Levi as rabbi of Temple Beth-El.
- Fred McDuff succeeded James Hawkins as Jefferson County Sheriff.
- Harry Pembleton was hired as a staff architect for the Federal Housing Administration.
- Capers Satterlee was appointed rector of St Andrew's Episcopal Church.
- Charles Whelan, Jr was appointed to the United States Parole Commission.
- Big Joe Williams signed with Bluebird Records in St Louis, Missouri.
Births
- February 14: Robert Miller, 9th Episcopal Bishop of Alabama
- February 14: Sandra Sokol, art collector
- June 9: Kirkwood Balton, businessman
- June 24: Charlie Dees, baseball player
- October 28: Baseball player Bob Veale
- December 17: George Lindsey, actor
- December 24: Cecil Whitmire, president of Birmingham Landmarks
- Doug Barfield, Auburn Tigers football head coach
- Robert Carter, Alabama State University professor
- Chriss Doss, former Jefferson County Commission president
- Henry Emfinger, historian, museum founder
- Rollie Hill, mechanic and "Cookie Man"
- Roland Ingram, Jr, physician
- Jake Reiss III, bookseller
- Nolan Shivers, 49-year veteran of the Birmingham Police Department
- Charles Townsend, former principal of Jackson-Olin High School
Marriages
- July 3: Vet Boswell to John Paul Jones
- Martha Belle Hilton to James F. Sulzby, Jr
Awards
Graduations
- Writer Margaret Walker earned a bachelor of arts at the University of Chicago.
- Football player Don Hutson graduated from the University of Alabama.
- Architect Helen Davis graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
- Architect Hugh Stubbins graduated from Harvard University.
- Restauranteur John Holcomb, Jr earned his bachelor of science in chemical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Deaths
- February: Giuseppe Moretti, sculptor
- Patti Ruffner Jacobs, suffragist leader
- Lucille Douglass, artist and printmaker
Context
1930s |
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