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This article is about the year 2006. For the album, see
2006
(album)
.
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
.
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Events
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January
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February
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- 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
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April
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- 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.
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[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.
June
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July
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August
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September
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- 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 Aereos Flight 1907
collides with a business jet over the
Amazon rainforest
, killing all 154 on board the former.
[45]
October
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November
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December
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Births and deaths
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Nobel Prizes
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New English words and terms
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