April 2

April 2 in the history of the Birmingham District:

• 2015: Adam Williams opened Birmingham Oddities in the Fix-Play Lofts building.
• 2007: Johnny Brown resigned as chief of Columbiana Police Department.
• 1986: George Wallace announced his retirement from public office.
• 1980: Loveman's department store announced that it was closing.
• 1963: Albert Boutwell defeated Bull Connor in the 1963 Birmingham mayoral election.
• 1951: Theatre in the Round staged its final performance at the Redmont Hotel.
• 1951: Alabama's first doctoral program in biochemistry was approved at the Medical College of Alabama
• 1939: The Apollo Boys' Choir performed on the NBC Radio Network program "Across the Country on a Bus", hosted by Milton Cross.
• 1866: President Andrew Johnson declared an end to war in Alabama.
• 1865: Wilson's Raiders reached Selma.

Emmylou Harris, born April 2, 1947

Births

• 1968: former UAB senior associate athletic director Shannon Ealy was born.
• 1949: State senator Hank Erwin was born in Birmingham.
• 1947: Singer Emmylou Harris was born in Birmingham.

Deaths

• 2015: Evelyn Starks Hardy, founding member of the Gospel Harmonettes, died.
• 2010: Geologist, paleontologist and former University of Alabama administrator Douglas E. Jones died.
• 2002: Singer B. J. Baker died in Rancho Mirage, California.
• 1932: Walker Percy's mother Mattie Sue drove off a bridge.

Sports

• 1984: Birmingham Stallions 31, New Orleans Breakers 17 at Legion Field.
• 1983: Boston Breakers 27, Birmingham Stallions 16 at Nickerson Field, Boston.