2006 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2006?
- January 4, 2006 – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
- January 29, 2006 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 4, 2006 – A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.
- 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 10, 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
- April 17, 2006 – Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
- May 27, 2006 – The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 am local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
- June 7, 2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in an airstrike by the United States Air Force.
- June 18, 2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
- June 21, 2006 – Pluto’s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
- 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 12, 2006 – The Hezbollah initiate Operation True Promise.
- August 14, 2006 – Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
- August 27, 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
- October 7, 2006 – Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya is shot and killed outside her home in Moscow.
- October 28, 2006 – The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
- December 4, 2006 – Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana, US; the subsequent court case becomes a cause célèbre.
- December 5, 2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
- December 14, 2006 – American spy satellite USA-193 is launched.
- December 15, 2006 – First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
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