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2006 is the 135th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

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 15: BhamWiki launched
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
June 6: Statewide primary and referendum
June 15-22: 217th Presbyterian General Assembly held in Birmingham
June 16-18: 2006 City Stages
June 17: 1906 Shelby County time capsule opened
June 29: Demolition of Eastwood Mall officially begins
July 16-19: 2006 National Association of Free Will Baptists convention
August 2: Saks, Inc. sells its Parisian division to Belk, Inc. for $285 million and plans to move its headquarters to New York.

See also List of Birmingham homicides in 2006

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 * June 29: Demolition of [[Eastwood Mall]] officially begins
 * July 16-19: [[2006 National Association of Free Will Baptists convention]]
+* August 2: [[Saks, Inc.]] sells its [[Parisian]] division to Belk, Inc. for $285 million and plans to move its headquarters to New York.
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