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This article is about the year 2006. For the album, see
2006 (album).
From top left, clockwise: the
2006 Winter Olympics are held in
Turin ,
Italy ; Israel and Lebanon enter
conflict ;
train bombings in
Mumbai kill 209 people;
Montenegro
votes to declare independence from
Serbia ; the
2006 FIFA World Cup is held in
Germany and is won by Italy;
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 crashes in the
Amazon rainforest after a mid-air collision with an
Embraer Legacy 600 business jet; an
earthquake in
Yogyakarta kills over 5,700 people; the
IAU votes on the
definition of planet , which demotes
Pluto and other
Kuiper belt objects and redefines them as "
dwarf planets ".
Calendar year
2006 (
MMVI ) was a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar , the 2006th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 6th year of the
3rd millennium and the
21st century , and the 7th year of the
2000s decade.
Calendar year
2006 was designated as the
International Year of Deserts and Desertification .
[1]
Events
January
February
February 4 –
Egyptian passenger ferry,
MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98 , sinks in the
Red Sea off the coast of
Saudi Arabia , killing over 1,000 people.
[9]
February 6 –
Stephen Harper is sworn in as the
Prime Minister of Canada .
February 10 –
26 – The
2006 Winter Olympics are held in
Turin, Italy .
[10]
February 17 – A
massive mudslide occurs in
Southern Leyte ,
Philippines killing an estimated 1,126 people.
[11]
February 22 –
2006 al-Askari mosque bombing : Explosions occur at the
al-Askari Shrine in
Samarra ,
Iraq . The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in
Shia Islam , causes the escalation of
sectarian violence in Iraq into a full-scale war (the
Iraqi Civil War of 2006-2008 ).
[12]
March
April
April 4 – The
Faddoul Brothers , kidnapped on 23 February 2006 in
Caracas , Venezuela, are found dead, causing outrage and mass protests against insecurity in the country.
[17]
[18]
[19]
April 11
April 20 –
Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint
uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil;
[23] nine days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de facto termination of the deal.
May
June
July
August
September
September – The
MP4 Watch is available to consumers in America.
[41]
September 7 –
British Prime Minister
Tony Blair announces his intention to resign by the end of 2007.
[42]
September 7 –
Partial lunar eclipse , visible over most of Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.
September 19 – The
Royal Thai Army overthrows the government of
Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra in a
coup .
[43]
September 22 –
Annular solar eclipse , visible in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, parts of Brazil, and the southern Atlantic.
September 28 –
Typhoon Xangsane passed
Manila on its way to causing more than 300 deaths, mostly in the Philippines and Vietnam.
[44]
September 29 –
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides with a business jet over the
Amazon rainforest , killing all 154 on board the former.
[45]
October
November
December
Births and deaths
Nobel Prizes
New English words and terms
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