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.
1893: Elmwood Cemetery caretaker Lawrence Minter was born in Selma, Dallas County.

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.

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.