2006
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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 was designated a National Historic Landmark
- February 26: ESPN Classic televised a re-created Negro League game from Rickwood Field
- March 15: BhamWiki was launched
- March 20: Torchmark announced their move to Texas
- March 26: Mike Anderson accepted an offer to become Missouri's head basketball coach
- March 30: Cirque du Soleil made its Birmingham debut with "Delirium"
- April 7: Mike Davis was named UAB's new men's basketball coach
- May 22: Avondale Mills announced plans to sell or close all its mills.
- May 24: Taylor Hicks won American Idol..
- May 24: Regions Bank and AmSouth Bank announced plans for a merger.
- June 6: Statewide primary elections and referendum were held.
- June 15-22: 217th Presbyterian General Assembly was held in Birmingham.
- June 16-18: 2006 City Stages
- June 17: 1906 Shelby County time capsule was opened.
- June 29: Demolition of Eastwood Mall officially began.
- July 16-19: 2006 National Association of Free Will Baptists convention
- August 2: Saks, Inc. sold its Parisian division to Belk, Inc.
- August 10: The Birmingham News moved into its new building.
- September 28: President Bush discussed energy policy in Hoover and hosted a fundraiser for Bob Riley
- October 1: Miss Alabama USA Haleigh Stidham gave her crown to Rebecca Moore
- October 6: Ground was ceremonially broken for the Railroad Reservation Park
- November 7: 2006 general election
- November 12: Dedrick Griham convicted on three federal counts.
Births
- August 7: Rowan, a male reticulated giraffe at the Birmingham Zoo
Deaths
- January 19: Reverend Willie Spencer of Hueytown
- January 23: Murray Sokol, sales clerk
- January 30: Coretta Scott King
- February: Matilda, world's oldest chicken
- March 12: Richard N. Murray, former director of the Birmingham Museum of Art
- March 22: Alan Potts, owner of Silvertron Café
- April 4: Shirley Crumley, casting director
- April 23: John Hallum, actor
- May 25: Audis Williams, Clay building inspector
- June 9: Walter Hill, former Sardis Missionary Baptist Church deacon, murdered
- June 16: Joseph Braswell, interior designer
- June 29: Joe Dentici, radio engineer and DJ
- July 14: George M. Murray, former Bishop of Alabama
- July 17: Bill Morgan Freeman, artist
- August 3: Terrence West, Woodlawn High School girls basketball coach, murdered
- August 14: Robert Davis III, adventurer
- August 24: William Bridgers, founder of UAB School of Public Health
- October 5: Hal Lynch, actor
- October 23: Mary Smith, police officer, shot in line of duty
- October 29: Benjamin Greene, former HABD commissioner
- See also List of Birmingham homicides in 2006