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Date	Event
January 4, 2006	Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke.
January 12, 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.
January 16, 2006	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
January 22, 2006	Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
January 25, 2006	Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
January 28, 2006	The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Poland collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
February 6, 2006	Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
February 16, 2006	The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
February 17, 2006	A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
February 19, 2006	A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
February 22, 2006	At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samara, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-scale civil war.
February 22, 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.
February 24, 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.
March 1, 2006	English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
March 7, 2006	The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
March 10, 2006	The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
March 11, 2006	Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile.
March 14, 2006	The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.
March 20, 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.
March 21, 2006	The social media site Twitter is founded.
March 22, 2006	Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
March 25, 2006	Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
March 25, 2006	Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
March 28, 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.
April 1, 2006	Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) of the Government of the United Kingdom is enforced, but later merged into National Crime Agency on 7 October 2013.
April 2, 2006	Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.
April 8, 2006	Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
April 11, 2006	Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
April 14, 2006	Twin blasts triggered by crude bombs during Asr prayer in the Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi injure 13 people.
April 17, 2006	A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
April 27, 2006	Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
May 3, 2006	Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.
May 5, 2006	The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
May 12, 2006	Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
May 12, 2006	Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
May 13, 2006	São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil.
May 17, 2006	The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
May 18, 2006	The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
May 21, 2006	The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
May 23, 2006	Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
May 27, 2006	The 6.4 Mw  Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
May 29, 2006	The roof of Porvoo Cathedral in the town of Porvoo was destroyed by arson.
June 3, 2006	The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
June 5, 2006	Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
June 18, 2006	The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
June 21, 2006	Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
June 26, 2006	Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
June 29, 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.
July 1, 2006	The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway is conducted in China.
July 4, 2006	Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the International Space Station. The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day.
July 5, 2006	North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
July 6, 2006	The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
July 9, 2006	One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
July 10, 2006	A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.
July 11, 2006	Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
July 12, 2006	The 2006 Lebanon War begins.
July 15, 2006	Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
July 17, 2006	The 7.7 Mw  Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
July 30, 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.
July 31, 2006	Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
August 4, 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).
August 9, 2006	At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests are made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.
August 11, 2006	The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
August 14, 2006	Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council’s approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
August 14, 2006	Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
August 20, 2006	Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
August 22, 2006	Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
August 22, 2006	Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
August 23, 2006	Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity.
August 24, 2006	The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
August 25, 2006	Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
August 27, 2006	Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
August 31, 2006	Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
September 17, 2006	Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.
September 17, 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.
September 19, 2006	The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
September 22, 2006	Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.
September 29, 2006	A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
October 2, 2006	Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
October 4, 2006	WikiLeaks is launched.
October 9, 2006	North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
October 15, 2006	The 6.7 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
October 22, 2006	A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a national referendum.
October 28, 2006	A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
November 5, 2006	Saddam Hussein, the 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 their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
November 8, 2006	Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the shelling of Beit Hanoun.
November 10, 2006	Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
November 10, 2006	The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.
November 11, 2006	Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
November 15, 2006	Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
November 21, 2006	Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
November 23, 2006	A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
November 27, 2006	The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.
December 4, 2006	Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana.
December 5, 2006	Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
December 6, 2006	NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
December 11, 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.
December 11, 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.
December 18, 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.
December 18, 2006	United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
December 26, 2006	Two earthquakes in Hengchun, Taiwan measuring 7.0 and 6.9 on the Richter scale kill two and disrupt telecommunications across Asia.
December 28, 2006	War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
December 29, 2006	The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
December 30, 2006	Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed.
December 30, 2006	The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
December 30, 2006	Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.