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Events on the year of 2006 in history

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02 Jan 2006 An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.
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04 Jan 2006 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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12 Jan 2006 The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
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12 Jan 2006 A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
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16 Jan 2006 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
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19 Jan 2006 The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
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20 Jan 2006 Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.
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22 Jan 2006 Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 81 points in an NBA game versus the Toronto Raptors, the second highest total in NBA history.
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22 Jan 2006 Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
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27 Jan 2006 Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
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28 Jan 2006 The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
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29 Jan 2006 India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
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04 Feb 2006 A stampede occurs in the PhilSports Arena near Manila, killing 71 people.
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16 Feb 2006 The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
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17 Feb 2006 A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
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19 Feb 2006 A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
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20 Feb 2006 In South Korea the United Liberal Democrats, the three top political parties was merged into Grand National Party.
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22 Feb 2006 At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
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24 Feb 2006 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
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01 Mar 2006 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
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07 Mar 2006 The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
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10 Mar 2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
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11 Mar 2006 Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
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14 Mar 2006 Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.
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20 Mar 2006 Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.
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21 Mar 2006 The social media site Twitter is founded.
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22 Mar 2006 Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
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25 Mar 2006 Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
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25 Mar 2006 Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
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28 Mar 2006 At least one million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.
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30 Mar 2006 The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes a law.
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01 Apr 2006 The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the "British FBI", is created in the United Kingdom.
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02 Apr 2006 Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.
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08 Apr 2006 Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
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11 Apr 2006 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
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27 Apr 2006 Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
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01 May 2006 The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
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05 May 2006 The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
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12 May 2006 Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
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12 May 2006 Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
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13 May 2006 São Paulo violence: A major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
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15 May 2006 Cloud Gate was formally dedicated in Chicago's Millennium Park.
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17 May 2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
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18 May 2006 The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
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20 May 2006 Dhaka wildcat strikes: A series of massive strikes begin, involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh.
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21 May 2006 The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
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23 May 2006 Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
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27 May 2006 The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
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03 Jun 2006 The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
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05 Jun 2006 Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
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09 Jun 2006 60th Anniversary Celebrations of Bhumibol Adulyadej's Accession.
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18 Jun 2006 The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
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21 Jun 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
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26 Jun 2006 Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
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29 Jun 2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
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01 Jul 2006 The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway in China.
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05 Jul 2006 North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly failed in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
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06 Jul 2006 The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-openes for trade after 44 years.
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11 Jul 2006 Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
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12 Jul 2006 Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
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15 Jul 2006 Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.
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30 Jul 2006 The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
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31 Jul 2006 Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raúl Castro.
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04 Aug 2006 A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
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09 Aug 2006 At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.
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11 Aug 2006 The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
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14 Aug 2006 Chencholai bombing: Sixty-one Sri Lankan Tamils are killed in a Sri Lankan Air force bombing.
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31 Aug 2006 Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
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13 Sep 2006 Kimveer Gill kills one student and injures 19 more in the Dawson College shooting.
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17 Sep 2006 Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.
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17 Sep 2006 An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
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19 Sep 2006 The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
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28 Sep 2006 Suvarnabhumi Airport opens in Amphoe Bang Phli, Samut Prakan Province from Don Mueang International Airport after the older airport ceased international commercial flights.
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29 Sep 2006 Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
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02 Oct 2006 Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
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09 Oct 2006 North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
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14 Oct 2006 The college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.
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16 Oct 2006 Hawaii earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
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22 Oct 2006 A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
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28 Oct 2006 The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. Eight hundred seventeen Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
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28 Oct 2006 A group of ferocious activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked one of their rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed their 14 activists.
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05 Nov 2006 Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982.
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27 Nov 2006 The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.
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04 Dec 2006 Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana.
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05 Dec 2006 Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
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06 Dec 2006 NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
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07 Dec 2006 A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
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11 Dec 2006 The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
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11 Dec 2006 Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
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13 Dec 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is adopted.
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15 Dec 2006 First flight of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
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18 Dec 2006 The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
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18 Dec 2006 United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
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26 Dec 2006 An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260.
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28 Dec 2006 War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
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29 Dec 2006 UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
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30 Dec 2006 Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed.
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30 Dec 2006 The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
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30 Dec 2006 Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.
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