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* February 26: ESPN Classic televises a re-created Negro League game from [[Rickwood Field]]. | * February 26: ESPN Classic televises a re-created Negro League game from [[Rickwood Field]]. | ||
* March 20: [[Torchmark]] announces their move to Texas. | * March 20: [[Torchmark]] announces their move to Texas. | ||
* March 26: [[Mike Anderson]] accepts an offer to become Missouri's head basketball coach. | |||
* March 30: Cirque du Soleil makes it's Birmingham debut with "Delirium". | * March 30: Cirque du Soleil makes it's Birmingham debut with "Delirium". | ||
* April 7: [[Mike Davis]] | * April 7: [[Mike Davis]] named [[UAB]]'s new men's basketball coach. | ||
==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
Revision as of 23:35, 17 April 2006
2006 is the 135th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.
Events
- February 3: Three Birmingham college students set fire to 9 rural Alabama churches.
- February 20: 16th Street Baptist Church designated a National Historic Landmark.
- February 26: ESPN Classic televises a re-created Negro League game from Rickwood Field.
- March 20: Torchmark announces their move to Texas.
- March 26: Mike Anderson accepts an offer to become Missouri's head basketball coach.
- March 30: Cirque du Soleil makes it's Birmingham debut with "Delirium".
- April 7: Mike Davis named UAB's new men's basketball coach.
Deaths
- January 19: Reverend Willie Spencer of Hueytown
- January 30: Coretta Scott King
- March 22: Alan Potts, owner of Silvertron Café