2006

2006 is the 135th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

Events

January 10: Bernard Kincaid delivered the 2006 State of the City address
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
May 24-28: 2006 SEC Baseball Tournament
June 2-9: Home Builders Blitz 2006
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 16-18: 2006 North America Cup, paralympic competition
June 17: 1906 Shelby County time capsule was opened
June 22: Birmingham Barons 3 - Tennessee Smokes 2 at the 2006 Rickwood Classic
June 29: Demolition of Eastwood Mall officially began
July 13-16: AVP Hoover Open beach volleyball tournament
July 16-19: 2006 National Association of Free Will Baptists convention
July 18: Statewide primary election runoffs were held.
August 2: Saks, Inc. sold its Parisian division to Belk, Inc.
August 10: The Birmingham News moved into its new building
August 23: Premiere of Two-A-Days
September 5: Jeremy Brown makes his MLB debut with the Oakland A's
September 22-24: LOL won "Best Feature" at the 2006 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
September 23: 2006 Calera plane crash at the Wings and Wheels Air Show
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 4: Operation "Taking It to the Streets", part I
October 6: Ground was ceremonially broken for the Railroad Reservation Park
November 4: Operation "Taking It to the Streets", part II
November 7: 2006 general election
November 12: Dedrick Griham was convicted on three federal counts
November 25: The UAB Blazers football team finished the season 3-9 with a loss at Central Florida in Watson Brown's final game as head coach.
December: Neil Callaway was named head coach of the UAB Blazers football team.
December: List of Christmas parades

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
February 11: James F. Sulzby IV, real estate agent
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 19: William D. Sulzby, executive with Hayes Corporation
May 25: Audis Williams, Clay building inspector
June: Bill Bryant, orthopedist
June 9: Walter Hill, former Sardis Missionary Baptist Church deacon, murdered
June 13: John and Evelyn Martin and Ryan Evans, murder victims
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
July 30: Billy Thompson, Shelby County Commission
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 2: Frances Bergen, actress and model
October 5: Hal Lynch, actor
October 23: Mary Smith, Fairfield police officer, shot in line of duty
October 29: Benjamin Greene, former HABD commissioner
November: Bernice Shepherd, Ruffner Mountain Nature Center benefactor
November 4: Edward Gardner, former president of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
November 26: Maxie Bryant, environmental activist
November 29: Herman Spivey, toy store owner
December 9: Wendell Givens, writer and newspaper editor

See also List of Birmingham homicides in 2006 and List of Jefferson County homicides in 2006

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