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 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
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
- April 23: John Hallum, actor
- May 25: Audis Williams, Clay building inspector
- June 9: Walter Hill, former Sardis Missionary Baptist Church deacon, murdered
- July 14: George M. Murray, former Bishop of Alabama
- See also List of Birmingham homicides in 2006