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Year 2006 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

In the Chinese calendar, 2006 was the Year of the Dog. Chinese New Year is January 29.

Events

• January 4 - Ariel Sharon, prime minister of Israel, has a huge stroke. Ehud Olmert takes over the job until Sharon has better health.
• January 16 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the president of Liberia.
• January 17 - New Horizons, a NASA spaceship that will go to the minor planet Pluto, takes off.
• January 22 - Evo Morales becomes President of Bolivia
• January 23 - A train crashed near Bioče, a village nine miles northeast of Podgorica in Serbia and Montenegro, killing 44 people and injuring 184 people after the train's brakes failed. See also Bioče train disaster.
• January 29 - Tarja Halonen wins a second term as president of Finland in the Finnish elections.
• January 29 - ABC newsman Bob Woodruff's car is blown up while he is reporting in Iraq.
• February 10 to 26 - Turin Winter Olympic Games
• March 11 - Michelle Bachelet became the first woman president of Chile
• [March 25 - About 500,000 people go to the streets in downtown Los Angeles to protest a proposed attack on illegal immigration.
• March 29 - Total solar eclipse happens in some parts of the world.
• May 15 - Giorgio Napolitano becomes the 11th President of the Italian Republic.
• July 5 - North Korea test fires at least 7 missiles.
• July 9 - June 9 - the 2006 FIFA World Cup was in Germany, finally the squadra azurra from Italy won the cup.
• July 12 - 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict: Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping 2 soldiers and killing 3. Hezbollah declares war against Israel 2 days later.
• July 19 - A massive earthquake causes a tsunami in Indonesia.
• July 23 - Floyd Landis wins the Tour de France, but later is tested positive for the hormone testosterone, evidence that he had cheated by taking a performance-enhancing drug.
• July 23 - Miss Puerto Rico wins Miss Universe 2006.
• August - Pluto is changed from being a planet to being a dwarf planet.
• September 19 - A non-violent coup d'état was staged by the Royal Thai Army against the Prime Minister of Thailand.
• October 10 - Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion
• October 13 - Ban Ki-moon elected next United Nations Secretary-General
• November 5 - Saddam Hussein is convicted of Crimes against Humanity. He is sentenced to death.
• December 10 - Truthiness is selected as Word of the Year by Merriam Webster dictionary.
• December 14 - Ban Ki-moon sworn in as United Nations Secretary-General
• December 26 - Former US President Gerald Ford dies at the age of 93 years at 6:45 p.m.
• December 30 - Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging.

Births

• April 18 - Suri Cruise, Daughter of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

Deaths

• January 21 - Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
• February 3 - Al Lewis, American actor
• February 13 - John Brooke-Little, English writer
• March 11 - Slobodan Milošević, Serbian leader
• March 27 - Stanislav Lem, Polish writer
• March 27 - Rudolf Vrba, German-Canadian teacher and Holocost survivor
• April 5 - Gene Pitney, American singer
• May 3 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1931)
• June 5 - Billy Preston, American musician
• June 7 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader
• July 7 - Syd Barrett, English musician
• July 7 - Rudy Carrell, Dutch presenter
• July 20 - Lim Kim San, former Singapore minister.
• August 27 - Maria Esther de Capovilla, world's oldest woman (b. 1889)
• September 4 - Steve Irwin, Australian environmentalist and star of Crocodile Hunter.
• September 14 - Elizabeth Choy, Singapore war heroine.
• September 23 - Malcolm Arnold, English composer
• October 7 - Anna Politkovskaya , Russian journalist
• October 22 - Choi Kyu-ha, President of South Korea
• November 20 - Robert Altman, American film director
• November 23 - Philippe Noiret, French actor
• November 27 - Alan Freeman, Australian radio presenter.
• December 10 - Augusto Pinochet, former president of Chile.
• December 11 - Elizabeth Bolden, world's oldest woman (b. 1890)
• December 18 - Joseph Barbera, American animator
• December 21 - Saparmurat Niyazov, 1st President of Turkmenistan
• December 25 - James Brown, American singer
• December 26 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
• December 30 - Saddam Hussein, Iraqi dictator
• December 31 - Liese Prokop, Austrian politician

Movies

Final Destination 3

Songs

Books

Nobel prize winners

• Chemistry - Roger D. Kornberg
• Economics - Edmund S. Phelps
• Literature - Orhan Pamuk
• Medicine - Craig C. Mello
• Peace - Grameen Bank
• Peace - Muhammad Yunus
• Physics - John C. Mather
• Physics - George F. Smoot

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