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* [[2006 City Stages]] | * [[2006 City Stages]] | ||
* [[2006 Birmingham Barons]] | * [[2006 Birmingham Barons]] | ||
* [[2006 SEC Baseball Tournament]] | |||
* [[2006 Birmingham Steeldogs]] | * [[2006 Birmingham Steeldogs]] | ||
* [[2006 UAB Blazers]] | * [[2006 UAB Blazers]] | ||
* [[2006 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival]] | * [[2006 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival]] | ||
* [[List of | * [[List of Birmingham homicides in 2006]] | ||
[[Category:2006|*]] | [[Category:2006|*]] | ||
Revision as of 20:12, 29 May 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.
- May 22: Avondale Mills makes plans to shut all mills.
- May 24: Taylor Hicks wins American Idol
- May 24: Regions Bank and AmSouth Bank announce plans for a merger.
Deaths
- January 19: Reverend Willie Spencer of Hueytown
- January 30: Coretta Scott King
- March 22: Alan Potts, owner of Silvertron Café