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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

See also List of Birmingham homicides in 2006

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 * 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