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2006 (MMVI) was a common year that started on a Sunday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2006th year of Anno Domini or Common Era designation, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 7th of the 2000s decade. 2006 was designated the: Events January - January 1 Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.[2]
- January 4 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, suffers a severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.
- January 5 A hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, collapses, killing 76 pilgrims visiting to perform Hajj.[3]
- January 12 A stampede during the stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 362 pilgrims.[4][5]
- January 15 NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.[6]
- January 16 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumes office as President of Liberia, the first female elected head of state in Africa.
- January 25 Pope Benedict XVI issues his first encycylical, Deus Caritas Est.[7]
- January 27 Celebrations are held in Salzburg and around the world, for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[8]
February March April May - May Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in Nature.
- May 24 East Timor's Foreign Minister Jos Ramos-Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal.[25]
- May 27 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes central Java in Indonesia, killing more than 6,000, injuring at least 36,000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless.[26]
- May 29 - Sidoarjo mud flow - World's biggest mud volcano was created by the blowout of a natural gas well being drilled in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia. This has resulted in displacement of more than 11,000 persons from eight villages as well as damage to road and power infrastructures. Several (Twenty-five) factories were also abandoned.[27]
June July August September October November December Births Deaths January Coretta Scott King - January 3 Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
- January 4 Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1946)
- January 6 Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
- January 7 Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer, explorer and author (b. 1912)
- January 14 Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
- January 15 Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
- January 19 Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
- January 21 Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
- January 24 Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
- January 27 Johannes Rau, President of Germany (b. 1931)
- January 30 Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
February Betty Friedan Don Knotts - February 1
- February 3 Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
- February 4 Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b.1921)
- February 8
- February 9 Sir Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
- February 10 J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
- February 12
- February 13
- February 14 Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
- February 15 Sun Yun-suan, Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1913)
- February 16 Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
- February 20 Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveler (b. 1920)
- February 22
- February 23
- February 24
- February 25
- February 27 Linda Smith, English comedian (b. 1958)
March Lennart Meri Slobodan Milo evi Caspar Weinberger - March 1
- March 2 Jack Wild, English actor (b. 1952)
- March 3 William Herskovic, Hungarian Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
- March 4
- March 6
- March 8 Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
- March 9
- March 11
- March 13
- March 14 Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (b. 1929)
- March 15 George Mackey, American mathematician (b. 1916)
- March 22 Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (b. 1939)
- March 23 Cindy Walker, American songwriter (b. 1918)
- March 24 Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
- March 25
- March 26 Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
- March 27 Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
- March 28 Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
April John Kenneth Galbraith - April 2 Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of soldier Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
- April 4 Denis Donaldson, Irish Republican informer (b. 1950)
- April 5 Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
- April 6 Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
- April 8 Gerard Reve, Dutch author (b. 1923)
- April 11
- April 12
- April 13 Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist (b. 1918)
- April 15 Louise Smith, American race car driver (b. 1916)
- April 17 Calum Kennedy, Scottish singer (b. 1928)
- April 18 John Lyall, British football player and manager (b. 1940)
- April 19 Scott Crossfield, American pilot (b. 1921)
- April 21 Tel Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
- April 23
- April 24
- April 25
- April 29 John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
- April 30 Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (b. 1934)
May Floyd Patterson Lloyd Bentsen - May 2 Louis Rukeyser, American television host (b. 1933)
- May 3
- May 6
- May 7
- May 8 Iain Macmillan, British photographer (b. 1938)
- May 10 Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
- May 11
- May 12 Hussein Maziq, Former Libyan prime minister (b. 1918).
- May 13
- May 16 Jorge Porcel, Argentine actor (b. 1936)
- May 19 Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
- May 21 Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, and songwriter (b. 1909)
- May 22 Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
- May 23 Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
- May 24
- May 25
- May 26 douard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
- May 27 Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b. 1928)
- May 29 Masumi Okada, Japanese actor (b. 1935)
- May 30
June Billy Preston July Ryutaro Hashimoto June Allyson - July 1
- July 3 Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
- July 5
- July 6 Kasey Rogers, American actress, author, and biker (b. 1925)
- July 7
- Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author, and broadcaster (b. 1914)
- Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (b. 1934)
- Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1946)
- Gilbert Paul Jordan, Canadian serial killer, (b. 1931)
- John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
- Elias Hrawi, former President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
- July 8
- July 10 Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
- July 11
- July 13 Red Buttons, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
- July 16 Bob Orton, American wrestler (b. 1929)
- July 17 Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918)
- July 18 Raul Cortez, Brazilian actor (b. 1931)
- July 19 Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
- July 20
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- July 25
- July 28 David Gemmell, British author (b. 1948)
- July 30 Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
August James van Allen Alfredo Stroessner September Steve Irwin October Jane Wyatt Red Auerbach - October 6
- October 7 Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958)
- October 8 Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1975)
- October 9 Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
- October 10 Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
- October 11 Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
- October 13 Mason Andrews, delivered America's first test tube baby; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (b. 1919)
- October 14 Freddy Fender, American singer (b. 1937)
- October 16
- October 18 Anna Russell, British-born comedian and music satirist (b. 1911)
- October 20 Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
- October 24 Enolia McMillan, American first female president of the NAACP (b. 1904)
- October 25 Danny Rolling, American serial killer (executed by lethal injection) (b. 1954)
- October 28
- October 30 Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
- October 31 Pieter Willem Botha, former State President of South Africa (b. 1916)
November Jack Palance December Augusto Pinochet Gerald R. Ford]] Saddam Hussein - December 3 Craig Hinton, British novelist (b. 1964)
- December 4 Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1987)
- December 5 David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
- December 6 John Feeney, New Zealand documentary film-director (b. 1922)
- December 7
- December 8 Jose Uribe, Dominican Major League Baseball player (b. 1959)
- December 10 Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
- December 12
- December 13
- December 14
- December 15 Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
- December 16 Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1940)
- December 18 Joseph Barbera, American animator (b. 1911)
- December 20
- December 21 Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
- December 22 Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25 James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
- December 26 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
- December 29 Charles Addo Odametey, Ghanaian football player (b. 1937)
- December 30
Nobel Prizes 100px Major holidays In fiction - The Bible Code (1997): According to purported codes hidden in the Torah, the apocalypse was to have occurred in 2006. Nuclear wars, major destructive earthquakes, etc., were predicted for 2006 based on Bible Codes.
- Kid Gravity: According to Penny Galactica's robot UNI, the first year we build cities on Mars.
- Set in 2006:
- Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly (2005): March 20 is the day of the coming of Tartarus.
- Briefcase Full of Blues by the Blues Brothers (1978): On the opening track "I Can't Turn You Loose," Elwood Blues laments that the blues will exist only in the classical music records department of your local public library by 2006.
- "When I'm Sixty-Four" was written by Paul McCartney when he was a teenager in the 1950s, but wasn't recorded until late 1966 when his own father turned 64; it was released in 1967 on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album; McCartney turned 64 on June 18, 2006.
- Doctor Who:
- Jeremiah (2002 2004): A viral plague kills every human being that has entered puberty, leaving only children alive.
- Life on Mars (2006 2007): Central character Sam Tyler travels in time from 2006 to 1973.
- South Park ("My Future Self n' Me," 2002): An actor portraying a future version of Stan Marsh tells his younger counterpart that he'll be sent to juvenile hall sometime during the course of the year.
- The West Wing: on November 8, Congressman Matt Santos of Texas defeats Senator Arnold Vinick of California in the 2006 US presidential election.
- General Hospital: on November 16, Luke and Laura celebrate their 25th anniversary by remarrying.
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