2006
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2006 is a year in the 21st century. It is a common year.
In the Chinese calendar, 2006 is the Year of the Dog. Chinese New Year is January 29.
[edit] 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 17 - New Horizons, a NASA spaceship that will go to the planet Pluto, takes off.
- 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.
- ABC newsman Bob Woodruff's car is blown up while he is reporting in Iraq.
- February 10 to 26 - Turin Winter Olympic Games
- March 29 - total solar eclipse in some parts of the world
- April 18 - Suri, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruises' baby girl, is born.
- July 9 - June 9 - the 2006 FIFA World Cup was in Germany, finally the quadra azurra from Italy won the cup.
- 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.
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
- February 3 - Al Lewis, American actor
- 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.
- 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)