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==Events==
==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 [[ChristWay Church|North Birmingham Church of God]] was founded by [[Herman Drummond]].
* [[WERC-AM|WBRC-AM]] began airing NBC Radio Network programming.
* The [[Southeastern Bible College|Birmingham School of the Bible]] held its first classes.
* The [[Personnel Board of Jefferson County]] was founded.
* [[Floyd McGraw|Floyd]] and [[Lallouise McGraw]] planted a live Christmas tree at [[Vincent]]'s [[Vincent Town Hall|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===
===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 [[Medical Alumni Building|new headquarters]].


===Sports===
===Sports===
* [[January 1]]: The [[1934 Alabama Crimson Tide football team]] completed a [[List of Alabama Crimson Tide football national championships|national championship]] season by beating Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
* [[June 23]]: [[Legrant Scott]] hit a record 4 doubles in a game for the [[1935 Birmingham Barons|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.
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* The [[1935 Alabama Crimson Tide football team]] went 6-2-1
* [[Billy Bancroft]] succeeded [[Shorty Propst]] as coach of the [[Samford Bulldogs football|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==
==Works==
* [[Robert Van de Graaff]] patented the Van de Graaff generator.
* ''Mississippi'' and ''Rumba'', films starring [[Gail Patrick]]


===Books===
===Books===
* ''Black to Nature'', and ''With Benefit of Clergy'', novels by [[Octavus Roy Cohen]]


===Buildings===
===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|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 [[Fairfield Tin Mill|Tin Mill]] at its [[Fairfield Works]].
* A bridge over the [[John Allen Branch]] connecting [[Alabaster]] and [[Siluria]] was completed.


===Music===
===Music===
 
* "The Object of My Affection" by the [[Boswell Sisters]]


==People==
==People==
* [[Hugo Black]] was apponted to the Senate Committee on Education and Labor.
* [[Sun Ra|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 [[List of Governors of Alabama|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 the University of Montevallo|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===
===Births===
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* [[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 Sulzby|Martha Belle Hilton]] to [[James F. Sulzby, Jr]]
 
===Awards===
* [[Miss Alabama]]: [[Adelynn Owen]]
 
===Graduations===
===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 [[Auburn University|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===
===Deaths===
 
* February: [[Giuseppe Moretti]], sculptor
* [[Patti Ruffner Jacobs]], suffragist leader
* [[Lucille Douglass]], artist and printmaker


==Context==
==Context==

Revision as of 14:49, 14 April 2010

1935 was the 64th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

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Business

Sports

Works

Books

Buildings

Music

People

Births

Marriages

Awards

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Deaths

Context

1930s
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