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2006 Calendar

1 Births
2 Deaths
3 Events
4 Holidays

[edit] Births

1934 - Jamie Farr, American actor
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete, 9 Olympic gold
1967 - Pamela Anderson

[edit] Deaths

1974 - Juan Domingo Perón
1991 - Michael Landon

[edit] Events

1097 - Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I.
1690 - Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.
1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1862 - Russian State Library is founded
1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1867 - The British North America Act takes effect as the constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister.
1870 - The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
1878 - Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1881 - World's first international telephone call, between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.
1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1890 - Canada and Bermuda linked by telegraph cable.
1904 - Games of the III Olympiad open in Saint Louis, Missouri.
1916 - First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed, and 40,000 wounded.
1931 - Official opening of Milan Central Station.
1923 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1935 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
1947 - The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange
1948 - Official opening of New York International Airport (now known as John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild.
1957 - The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).
1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1960 - Independence of Somalia.
1962 - Independence of Rwanda.
1962 - Independence of Burundi.
1963 - ZIP Code introduced for United States mail.
1963 - The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1963 - U.S President John F. Kennedy arrives in Rome
1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto.
1967 - The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva, Switzerland.
1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers with the AFL-CIO.
1969 - Rock group The Band release their influential debut Music From Big Pink.
1972 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.
1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1983 - A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashed into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1986 - In an interview with Playboy magazine, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke comes out as a bisexual.
1987 - Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel.
1988 - Bologna, Italy: Quartetto Cetra's last concert after over forty years' musical career.
1990 - East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved.
1997 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
1999 - At the first meeting of the Scottish Parliament in nearly three centuries, Winnie Ewing opened with the famous words, "The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th day of March in the year 1707, is hereby reconvened."
2000 - Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over southern Germany, killing 71.
2003 - 500,000 people take part in a march in Hong Kong to protest, amongst other things, the government's handling of the plans to implement a new anti-subversion law required under Article 23 of Hong Kong's Basic Law.
2004 - 530,000 people take part in a march in Hong Kong to urge for faster pace of democratisation and universal suffrage, according to Article 45 and Article 68 of Hong Kong's Basic Law.
2004 - Saturn Orbit Insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT.
2005 - Microsoft plans to end official support of Windows 2000
2005 - Make Poverty History's White Band Day.
2005 - United Kingdom takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
2005 - Revaluation of the Romanian Leu