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 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

Deaths

• January 19: Reverend Willie Spencer of Hueytown
• January 30: Coretta Scott King
• 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
• May 25: Audis Williams, Clay building inspector
• June 9: Walter Hill, former Sardis Missionary Baptist Church deacon, murdered

See Also

• 2006 City Stages
• 2006 Birmingham Barons
• 2006 SEC Baseball Tournament
• 2006 Birmingham Steeldogs
• 2006 UAB Blazers
• 2006 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
• List of Birmingham homicides in 2006