November 27 in San Antonio history…

1946
The First National Bank of San Antonio inaugurates their new drive-up window service.  Joe Straus, President of the Straus-Frank Company, is the first customer to use the service to make a deposit at the bank.  “This is a real innovation,” he says.

1975
The city first begins displaying Christmas lights along the Riverwalk.

1991
Sister Mary Anne Holmes of the Ursuline Order announces at a somber news conference that the Ursuline School will close in May due to increasing debt and decreasing enrollment.  The sisters founded the school in 1851.

August 5 in San Antonio history…

1884
The San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad is first organized.

1922
San Antonio’s first radio station (WJAE) begins broadcasting, but lasts only a few months.

1974
Roddy Stinson’s first column, entitled “In Memory of Iris,” appears in the San Antonio Express newspaper.  Stinson’s columns will provoke, enlighten and entertain San Antonio readers for 34 years until his retirement in 2008.

August 3 in San Antonio history…

1883
The first issue of the San Antonio Light is published. (Originally published starting in 1881 as The Evening Light.)

1949
Seven rural school districts, the Blanco Road Common School District #6, Seay Common School District #7, Olmos Common School District #9, Lookout Valley Common School District #10, Serna Common School District #11, Salado Valley Common School District #10.5, and Coker Common School District #50 consolidate to form the North East Rural High School District.  This will become North East ISD in 1955.

1974
The Happy Jazz Band and the Landing move from the Nix Building to the river level of the Stockman Restaurant.

July 27 in San Antonio history…

1918
Women are allowed to vote in the Democratic primary in Texas for the first time.  Candidate William P. Hobby for governor, Annie Webb Blanton for state superintendent of public instruction and other candidates favored by the women are victorious.

1973
Willie Nelson, Leon Russell, Johnny Bush, Sammi Smith, El Curro and Gino Scorza entertain at the Menudo World Championship held at Raymond Russell Park.

July 20 in San Antonio history…

1887
A drinking contest will take place tomorrow at the Berliner Concert Garden to show the prohibitionists that a man can drink 50 to 100 glasses of beer without becoming intoxicated.

1953
Investigators from Oklahoma City are in San Antonio today to persuade local oilman Charles Urschel to testify against George “Machine Gun” Kelly in regard to Kelly’s kidnaping of Urschel twenty years ago.  Kelly is currently serving a life sentence in Leavenworth.

1974
The San Antonio Toros of the Mid-America Football League play the NFL Houston Oilers rookie squad in Alamo Stadium.  The Oilers won, 13-7.

May 16 in San Antonio history…

1883
The State of Texas buys the Alamo for $20,000.

1895
A freak windstorm causes the collapse of the big top during a performance of Bennett’s Charity Circus.  Some spectators received minor injuries.  Tonight’s performance will go on as scheduled with only the side walls standing.  The top tent was a total loss.

1974
City Council approves the logo and name of “Market Square” for the new $2.9 million Farmer’s Market development.

April 27 in San Antonio history…

1974
A 22-year old streaker jumps on a float in the Fiesta Flambeau parade.  He is arrested on a disorderly conduct charge, pleads guilty and assessed a $200 fine in Municipal Court.  He was not released, however. He was held in custody as he was wanted by Armed Forces Police for being AWOL from the Air Force since last December.

Al Guzman/SAN ANTONIO LIGHT FILE PHOTO

1979
During the Battle of Flowers parade, Ira Attebury sprays the crowd with shotgun and semiautomatic rifle fire from a parked motorhome (right). Two die, 55 are wounded. Attebury commits suicide as SWAT teams close in.

1986
The first heart transplant in San Antonio was performed by a team of surgeons from Medical Center Hospital and the UT Health Science Center.

February 6 in San Antonio history

1918
The right of the board of education to require vaccination as a prerequisite for admission to the San Antonio public schools was sustained by the Fourth Court of Civil Appears in an opinion handed down today in the case of Ferd Staffel et. al. vs. the San Antonio Board of Education.

1950
An invitation to inspect the new Coliseum was issued to the public by E. W. Bickett, Coliseum manager. Bickett stated that the building will be open every day for public inspection, especially on Saturdays and Sundays, and that visitors would be welcome to inspect the grounds and facilities that will house the San Antonio Livestock Exposition and Autry-Colborn World’s Championship Rodeo, Feb. 17-26.

1974
George Gervin, the fourth leading scorer in the ABA with a 25.3 average, is now a San Antonio Spur—for at least 10 days. U.S. District Judge Adrian Spears ruled today that Gervin cannot play for any other team in the ABA during the next 10 days. Judge Spears stressed that he did not rule that Gervin had to play for S.A. His ruling meant only that if Gervin is to play in the ABA in the next 10 days, it had to be for the Spurs. Shortly after Spears made his decision about 4:30 p.m., the Spurs held a news conference which Gervin attended. They announced that the 6-7, 180-pound sharpshooter would wear jersey No. 44 and play for the Spurs tomorrow night in the Convention Center Arena against the Utah Stars.

December 13 in San Antonio history…

1866
The San Antonio Express becomes a daily newspaper.

1946
Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie perform in concert in Municipal Auditorium.  The concert of the two now-legendary African-American jazz artists is unfortunately advertised “for whites only.” (right)

1974
The University of Texas System regents vote to name the UTSA library and administration building for John Peace, the late San Antonio attorney.

December 10 in San Antonio history…

1912
The city’s first F.W. Woolworth & Co. store opens at the corner of  Houston & Alamo streets (right).

1971
Savoy Brown, Atomic Rooster and Chicken Shack play a concert in Municipal Auditorium.

1974
On the 25th anniversary of the station, WOAI-TV changes their call letters to KMOL.