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April 2 in the history of the Birmingham District:
- 2023: The 2023 Shelby County helicopter crash resulted in two deaths.
- 2015: Adam Williams opened Birmingham Oddities at 2300 1st Avenue North.
- 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.
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.
- 1921: Herpetologist Herndon Dowling Jr was born in Cullman.
- 1893: Elmwood Cemetery caretaker Lawrence Minter was born in Selma, Dallas County.
- 1889: Merchant Simon Goldstein was born in Russia.
Deaths
- 2021: Luke Ratliff, Alabama basketball "superfan".
- 2020: Ruth Appelhof, former Birmingham Museum of Art curator died of leukemia in East Hampton, New York.
- 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
- 2019: The Alliance of American Football suspended operations, ending the Birmingham Iron's tenure.
- 1984: Birmingham Stallions 31, New Orleans Breakers 17 at Legion Field.
- 1983: Boston Breakers 27, Birmingham Stallions 16 at Nickerson Field, Boston.