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

Events

16th Street Baptist Church

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.
March 15: BhamWiki was launched.
March 30: Cirque du Soleil made its Birmingham debut with "Delirium".
May 13: 5th annual Buck Creek Festival was held.
May 24: Taylor Hicks won American Idol.
May-June: The Siegelman Scrushy corruption case was heard in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
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 17: 1906 Shelby County time capsule was opened.
June 29: Demolition of Eastwood Mall officially began.
July 16-19: 2006 National Association of Free Will Baptists convention
July 18: Statewide primary election runoffs were held.
August 12–13: EWTN's 25th Anniversary Family Celebration was held at the BJCC.
August 23: Premiere of Two-A-Days
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.
December: List of Christmas parades
Gage Bush Englund donated nearly 1,000 books on dance to the Amelia Gorgas Library at the University of Alabama.
The Five Points South YMCA closed.
The UAB Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics was founded.

Business

March 1: Rob Henrikson was appointed CEO of MetLife, Inc.
March 20: Torchmark announced their move to Texas.
May: BioHorizons was incorporated.
May 22: Avondale Mills announced plans to sell or close all its mills.
May 24: Regions Bank and AmSouth Bank announced plans for a merger.
June: Jane and John Namkoong opened Ginza Sushi & Korean BBQ at Inverness Village on Valleydale.
August 2: Saks, Inc. sold its Parisian division to Belk, Inc.
August 10: The Birmingham News moved into its new building.
December 4: Kairos Kafe opened in the former Ollie's Bar-B-Q building on University Boulevard.
December 29: BellSouth was reacquired by AT&T.
Zia Ahsan opened a second Carnaggio's location in Vestavia Hills.
Silver Coin Indian Grill opened on Lorna Road in Hoover.
Bessemer Dodge Chrysler Jeep opened on Academy Lane in Bessemer.
Sonia Tutuwan opened the Changes Salon Spa & Wellness Center in the J. R. Copeland residence in Norwood.
C&M Food Distributing bought Big Sky Bread Company of Mountain Brook.
Slade LLC was founded by L’Tryce Slade.
Paul Bryant Jr's Greene Group, Inc. reorganized the Alabama Reassurance Company as the Alabama Life Reinsurance Company.
James Finley opened Steel 1st & 23rd in the Loft District.
Dominion Partners developers split away from the Daniel Corporation.
Alp Yeager re-opened his Ruan Thai restaurant in Tuscaloosa.
MedMined was acquired by Cardinal Health of Dublin, Ohio.

Religion

February: Greater Grace Missionary Baptist Church was formed, holding services at Highland School.
September: Shades Valley Community Church held its first service in the former Alpine Ice Arena.

Sports

February 26: ESPN Classic televised a re-created Negro League game from Rickwood Field.
March 26: Mike Anderson accepted an offer to become Missouri's head basketball coach.
April 7: Mike Davis was named UAB's new men's basketball coach.
May 12: The first annual Birmingham Zoo Run was held.
May 24-28: 2006 SEC Baseball Tournament
June: BSC Panthers announced they would move from NCAA Division I to Division III in all sports.
June 12: Brian Shoop announced he was moving from BSC to be UAB's baseball coach.
June 16-18: 2006 North America Cup, paralympic competition
June 22: Birmingham Barons 3 - Tennessee Smokes 2 at the 2006 Rickwood Classic
July 13-16: AVP Hoover Open beach volleyball tournament
September 5: Jeremy Brown made his MLB debut with the Oakland A's.
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 23: South Florida defeated East Carolina 24-7 in the inaugural PapaJohns.com Bowl.
A staph infection kept Bob Newton from coaching the Homewood football team; Dickey Wright became interim coach.

Works

Buildings

Avondale Villa was restored.
Alpine Ice Lodge converted to Shades Valley Community Church
Berry Middle School
Birmingham News building (2006)
Blazer Hall (2006)
Bloom
Bristol Southside
Brown Springs Ecoscape
Center Point Fire Station No. 1 (2006)
Clay Community Center
Doubletree Hotel Birmingham (renovated Radisson Hotel of Birmingham)
Garden of Hope
Hilltop Montessori School
Holy Infant of Prague Catholic Church
P. D. Jackson-Olin High School
Jenkins Brick William M. Jordan, Jr Plant in Moody
M. Miller Gorrie Center at Auburn University
Mountain Brook School System headquarters
Plaza Fiesta
Shelby Biomedical Research Building
Shoppes at River Run
St John Missionary Baptist Church Powderly
Veterans Skate Park
Park Place Apartments, phase II

Demolitions

May 23: The Newfound Creek Trestle was destroyed by fire.

Books

Other

Borat, film with scenes set in Birmingham
Two-A-Days, television series, 2nd season
Piece of Cake, short film
Light Overture, orchestral work commissioned by Alabama Power and premiered by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra

Individuals

UAB's Dale Benos served as president of the American Physiological Society.
Pulmonologist Ben Branscomb retired from UAB.
Kevin Higgs succeeded his father, Lawton Higgs, as pastor of the Church of the Reconciler.
Edward Partridge succeeded Peter Emanuel as acting director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Leadership Birmingham: Jann Blitz, Joseph Bluestein, Frank Brocato, Russ Carothers, Tom Carruthers, Richard Dickerson, David Donaldson, Kristi Lamont Ellis, James Ephraim, Charlie Faulkner, Tyrone Fenderson, Jr, Tom Garrett, Suzy Harris, Carol Herrmann-Steckel, Elaine Hill, Trisha Hill, Sandral Hullett, Michele Jenkins-Utomi, Merrill Johnston, Jr, Bryan Jordan, Bruce Key, Bobbie Knight, Holley Lagrone, Cindy Martin, Joy Martin, Joseph Mays, Deborah McGill, Kimberly Moore, Michael Mungenast, Tim Parker, Ray Perez, Marianne Prime, Webb Robertson, Lyndy Rogers, William Smith III, Fred Spicer, Janet Petty Stewart, Glennon Threatt, Mac Underwood, Paulette Van Matre, Deborah Vance-Bowie, Scott Walton, Tyrone Webb, William Wells, Kathrine Wilburn, April Williams
Gil Wideman was appointed to the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority.
John Lee Armstrong retired from Samford University.
Cory Provus succeeded Gary Sanders as play-by-play voice of the UAB Blazers.
James Kirklin succeeded Albert Pacifico retired as Director of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at UAB Hospital.

Births

May 9: Jalil, a male reticulated giraffe, born at the San Francisco Zoo
July 4: Star, Spangle, and Banner, African red river hogs, born at the Birmingham Zoo
August 7: Rowan, a male reticulated giraffe, born at the Birmingham Zoo
Brilyn Hollyhand, political website publisher

Awards

Alabama Academy of Honor: Miller Gorrie
Alabama Lawyers' Hall of Fame: William King, Thomas Peters, John Sparkman, Robert Vance
Robert P. Bynum Award: Colonel Stone Johnson
Leadership Birmingham: 46 graduates
Miss Alabama: Melinda Toole
Miss Shelby County: Melissa Harbison
Southern Golf Association Hall of Fame: Hubert Green
UAB President's Award for Excellence in Teaching: Dale Benos
WWE Hall of Fame: Sherri Martel

Marriages

December 9: Jeff Adams to Tracey Morant

Deaths

January 11: Joe Farmer, Special Forces Vietnam veteran
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
February 15: John Porter, pastor of 6th Avenue Baptist Church
February 23: Earl Stallings, pastor of First Baptist Church of Birmingham
February 23: Alvin Hudson, Heart of Dixie Railroad Club co-founder
March 6: Anne Braden, Civil Rights activist
March 12: Richard N. Murray, former director of the Birmingham Museum of Art
March 22: Alan Potts, owner of Silvertron Café
March 23: Tom Blosser, bass player
April 4: Shirley Crumley, casting director
April 9: Billy Hitchcock, ASHOF inductee
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
June 29: Wallace Potts, filmmaker and archivist
July 5: Hugh Stubbins, Jr, architect
July 14: George M. Murray, former Episcopal Bishop of Alabama
July 15: Marion Bradford, architect
July 17: Bill Morgan Freeman, artist
July 21: Harry Lipson Jr, former University of Alabama marketing professor
July 30: Billy Thompson, Shelby County Commission
August 3: Terrence West, Woodlawn High School girls basketball coach, murdered
August 7: Buster, Birmingham Zoo cheetah
August 14: Robert Davis III, adventurer
August 24: William Bridgers, founder of UAB School of Public Health
September 10: Nelson Smith Jr, Baptist minister and Civil Rights leader
September 23: Tim Rooney, actor and Mouseketeer
October 2: Frances Bergen, actress and model
October 5: Hal Lynch, actor
October 9: Harry Curl, theater manager
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 Preserve 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 4: Alice Bettencourt, wife of bandleader Frank Bettencourt
December 9: Wendell Givens, writer and newspaper editor
Leo M. Bashinsky, pediatrician
Akiva Ostrovsky, cantor and mohel at Temple Beth-El

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

See Also

2000s

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