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Sexagesimal cycle 乙酉-丙戌(4702–4703)
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Heisei 18
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'''2006''' ('''
Roman numerals MMVI''') is a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar. It is also the current year.
It has been designated:
* The ''International Year of
Desert Deserts and
Desertification''
* The ''Rembrandt Year'', commemorating the 400th anniversary of the birth of ''
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn'',
Netherlands' greatest
17th century 17th-century painter
* The
Tricentennial (300th anniversary) of the birth of ''
Benjamin Franklin'', scientist and statesman
* The
Bicentennial (200th anniversary) of the birth of ''
Isambard Kingdom Brunel'', engineer
* The ''Henrik Ibsen Year'', commemorating the 100th year since the death of the Norwegian playwright ''
Henrik Ibsen''
* The ''Mozart Year'', commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Austrian composer ''
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart''. Also the 100th anniversary of the birth of
Dmitri Shostakovich
* The ''Tesla Year'', commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of the electrotechnician ''
Nikola Tesla''
* The ''International Asperger's Year'', commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr
Hans Asperger, discoverer of
Asperger's Syndrome
* The year of city of
Patras as
European Capital of Culture
* The year of the
Dog (zodiac) Dog in
Chinese Astrology (beginning on January 29)
* The year of
Study abroad, by resolution of the
United States Senate
* The year of
Aquarius, the Water Bearer in
Western astrology. The next year for Aquarius will be in the year
2018.
Events
January
*
January 1 -
Russia cuts
natural gas to
Ukraine over a
Russia-Ukraine gas dispute price dispute.
*
January 2 - Fifteen are killed when the
Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof collapse Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof in
Germany collapses after heavy
snowfall in the
Bavarian Alps.
*
January 3 - Twelve
coal mining coal miners are discovered deceased in the
2006 Sago Mine disaster Sago Mine Disaster near
Buckhannon, West Virginia in the
United States. A single survivor was rescued early the following morning in
critical condition.
*
January 4 -
Intel has replaced the old sign '''Intel Inside''' with the new sign '''Intel'''. Powers are transferred from
Prime Minister of Israel Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to his deputy, Vice Premier
Ehud Olmert, after Sharon suffers a massive
hemorrhagic stroke.
*
January 5 - A hotel in
Makkah,
Saudi Arabia collapses killing 76 pilgrims visiting to perform
hajj.
*
January 6 - The record-breaking
2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially draws to a close as
Tropical Storm Zeta dissipates.
*
January 7 - Embroiled in multiple scandals, former U.S.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announced he would not seek to reassume his former post.
Liberal Democrats (UK) U.K. Liberal Democrat leader
Charles Kennedy resigns after revelations that he has a drinking problem.
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*
January 8 - A powerful, magnitude 6.9
earthquake shakes much of
Greece and is felt throughout the eastern
Mediterranean basin. No significant damage or injuries are reported.
*
January 9 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 11,000 for the first time since
June 7,
2001 closing at 11,011.90.
*
January 10 - At the
Macworld Conference & Expo,
Apple Computer introduces the first
Apple Macintosh Macs with
Intel processors: the
iMac iMac (Core Duo) and the
MacBook Pro.
*
January 11 -
Augustine Volcano in
Alaska erupts twice, marking its first major eruption since
1986.
*
January 12 -
Incidents during the Hajj A stampede during the
Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the
Hajj in
Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 362
Muslim pilgrims.
*
January 14 - A
natural gas explosion in a
coal mining coal mine kills eight in
Romania.
*
January 15 -
NASA's
Stardust (spacecraft) Stardust mission successfully ends with the return of the first
comet samples.
Socialist Party of Chile Socialist Michelle Bachelet is
Chilean presidential election, 2005 elected the first female
President of Chile.
*
January 16 -
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is inaugurated as the first female
President of Liberia.
*
January 17 -
Joseph T. Walsh succumbs after a fight with cancer, Catholic saint.
*
January 19 - the
New Horizons spacecraft is launched, beginning the first ever mission to
Pluto.
Suicide bombing in
Tel Aviv, killing only the bomber himself, but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously.
*
January 22 - Portuguese elections are won by
Anibal Cavaco Silva. He is the first right-wing winner since the
Carnation Revolution in 1974
*
January 23 - A train crashed near
BioÄ?e, a village nine miles northeast of
Podgorica in
Serbia and Montenegro killing 44 and injuring 184 people after the train's brakes failed. ''See also
BioÄ?e train disaster.'' In the
Canadian federal election, 2006 Canadian federal election, the
Conservative Party of Canada Conservatives win a plurality of seats in the
Canadian House of Commons House of Commons to form a
minority government.
*
January 24 - The
Kuwait National Assembly Parliament of Kuwait vote
Kuwaiti Emir
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah out of power moments before his official abdication.
The Walt Disney Company aquires
Pixar Animation Studios for $7.4 billion.
Butch Hartman, creator of
Danny Phantom and
Fairly Oddparents, announced on his website that both shows were scheduled to be cancelled.
*
January 25 -
Hamas wins the
Palestinian legislative election, 2006 Palestinian legislative election, gaining 76 of 132 legislative seats. Pope
Benedict XVI issues his first papal
encyclical,
Deus Caritas Est.
*
January 26 -
Michael J. Neils, bishop of the
Grand Canyon Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, resigns following admissions of sexual misconduct.
*
January 27 - Worldwide celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the birth of
Wolfgang Mozart.
Western Union discontinues its
telegraph service after 155 years of continuous service.
*
January 28 - Arrests in
Tehran of many bus workers' union activists, hours before a strike calling for the release of their leader
Mansour Osanlou.
*
January 28 - The
roof of a
Trade hall roof collapse in Katowice, Poland trade hall collapses near the southern
Poland Polish city of
Katowice, killing 65 people.
*
January 29 :
Tarja Halonen wins a second term in office in the
Finnish presidential election, 2006 Finnish presidential election.
*
January 31 :
Samuel Alito is confirmed to replace
Sandra Day O'Connor on the
Supreme Court US Supreme Court.
Ben Bernanke is confirmed to replace
Alan Greenspan who had been the
Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States since
1987.
February
*
February 1 - Several European newspapers reprint
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, sparking
International reactions to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy outrage and rioting in the following weeks.
*
February 3 - The
Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 sinks in the
Red Sea with heavy casualties.
*
February 4 - A stampede occurs outside
PhilSports Complex ULTRA Stadium in
Pasig City,
Metro Manila,
Philippines, killing 79 and injuring hundreds before the taping of the show ''
Wowowee (variety show) Wowowee'' (see
Pasig City stampede).
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*
February 5 : The
Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the
Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in
Super Bowl XL, played at
Ford Field in
Detroit, Michigan.
*
February 6 -
Stephen Harper is sworn in as
Prime Minister of Canada.
*
February 9 - Trial of
Haggai Katriel begins in
Jerusalem.
*
February 10–
February 26 - The
2006 Winter Olympics take place in
Turin,
Italy.
*
February 11 : President of
Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi dissolves the national parliament.
Vice President of the United States United States Vice President Dick Cheney Dick Cheney hunting incident shoots and injures Harry Whittington while hunting in rural
Texas.
*
February 16 -
Kobe Airport, a controversial offshore airport in
Kobe, Hyogo Kobe,
Japan, opens for airline service.
*
February 17 - As many as eighteen hundred people die when a
2006 Southern Leyte mudslide mudslide occurs on the island of
Leyte (island) Leyte in the
Philippines.
*
February 19 - Sixty-five miners become trapped underground after an explosion in
Nueva Rosita,
Mexico during the
Pasta de Conchos mine disaster. There were no survivors.
*
February 22 - A
Al Askari Mosque bombing blast heavily damages the
Al Askari Mosque, a
Shiite holy site in
Samarra,
Iraq, causing a wave of protests and counterattacks across Iraq.
*
February 22 - Over £53.1 million is stolen during the
Securitas depot robbery, the largest ever cash robbery in the
United Kingdom.
*
February 22 - The one billionth song is purchased from
Apple Computer Apple iTunes.
*
February 23 - A roof collapses on a
Moscow Market, killing 56 people.
*
February 24 - A
Philippines under state of emergency, 2006 state of emergency is declared in the
Philippines after an alleged
coup d'etat against President
Gloria Arroyo is foiled.
*
February 25 - Six police officers, seven protesters, and a journalist receive head wounds when a protest prior to the Love Ulster parade turns into a
2006 Dublin Republican riots major riot.
*
February 25 -
Uganda's President
Yoweri Museveni wins 2nd re-election, sparking riots in
Kampala by opposition supporters.
*
February 26 - The
world population reaches 6.5 billion at 0016
Coordinated Universal Time UTC according to the
United States Census Bureau U.S. Census Bureau.
March
*
March 2 - The
United States U.S. Federal Reserve releases the redesigned
U.S. ten dollar bill $10 bill into circulation.
*
March 3 - The first
World Baseball Classic opens in
Tokyo,
Japan.
*
March 4 - A new species of
shark was discovered in
Mexico's
Sea of Cortez, bringing the types of
Mustelus shark found in the eastern
North Pacific to five.
*
March 5 - ''
Crash (2004 film) Crash'' wins
Academy Award for Best Picture Best Picture,
Ang Lee (''
Brokeback Mountain'') wins
Academy Award for Best Director Best Director,
Reese Witherspoon (''
Walk the Line'') wins
Academy Award for Best Actress Best Actress, and
Philip Seymour Hoffman (''
Capote'') wins
Academy Award for Best Actor Best Actor during the
78th Academy Awards.
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March 11
*
March 7 - Fifteen people die and many others are injured in
2006 Varanasi bombings three blasts throughout
Varanasi,
India.
*
March 9 -
Microsoft unveils the
Ultra-Mobile PC, formerly code-named "Origami Project".
*
March 9 -
NASA's
Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovered
geysers of
water shooting from
Saturn's moon
Enceladus (moon) Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
*
March 10 - NASA's
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters
Mars orbit.
*
March 11 -
Slobodan Milošević, former
Yugoslav president, dies of a
heart attack in his prison cell in
The Hague,
Netherlands.
*
March 11 -
Michelle Bachelet is sworn in as the first female
President of Chile.
*
March 12 -
Springfield, Illinois is hit with its biggest storm in over fifty years as a
March 2006 Tornado Outbreak Sequence tornado outbreak sequence causes dozens of tornadoes to occur in
Missouri,
Kansas, and
Illinois over a five-day period.
*
March 15–
March 26 - The
2006 Commonwealth Games take place in
Melbourne,
Australia.
*
March 16 -
Operation Swarmer begins in and around
Samarra,
Iraq. About 600
United States U.S. and 850
Iraqi troops with 200 ground vehicles and 50 aircraft, in an effort to flush out the city's insurgents, launch the largest air assault since the
2003 Invasion of Iraq.
*
March 16 - The
New Kitakyushu Airport opens in Japan.
*
March 18 -
South Australia re-elects
Mike Rann and the
Australian Labor Party Labor Party.
Tasmania also re-elects
Australian Labor Party Labor with
Paul Lennon as Leader.
*
March 20 -
Tropical Cyclone Larry makes landfall in
Queensland, Australia as what is considered to be the worst cyclone to hit the region since
1931.
*
March 22 -
ETA Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) declares a permanent
ceasefire in their campaign for
Basque Country Basque independence from
Spain.
*
March 22 -
BC Ferries ''
Queen of the North'' sinks en route to Port Hardy, resulting in two casualties.
*
March 23 - The Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System ceases publication of the
money supply M3 monetary aggregate.
*
March 25 - An estimated 500,000 people took to the streets in downtown
Los Angeles in protest of a proposed federal crackdown on
illegal immigration.
*
March 25 - A revolutionary
scramjet jet engine Hyshot III designed to fly at seven times the speed of sound is successfully tested at
Woomera%2C_South_Australia Woomera, 488km north of
Adelaide in
Australia, on the back of a two stage
Terrier_%28rocket%29 Terrier-
Orion_%28US-rocket%29 Orion rocket.
*
March 26 - The ban on
Tobacco smoking smoking in public places such as
bars and
restaurants comes into effect in
Scotland.
*
March 26 - The opening gag on the
Fox television show
The Simpsons featured live actors in place of the animated family.
*
March 28 -
Andrew Card, chief of staff to President
George W. Bush resigns; President Bush nominates
Josh Bolten as his replacement.
*
March 29 -
Solar eclipse of 2006 March 29 Total solar eclipse (
Brazil,
Greece, Mid
Atlantic Ocean Atlantic ocean,
Sahara,
Turkey,
Georgia (country) Georgia,
Russia,
Kazakhstan,
Mongolia).
*
March 30 - The first
Brazilian
astronaut,
Marcos Pontes, goes to space in a
Russian spaceship, ''
Soyuz TMA-8'', at 2:29:00 CET.
*
March 30 - The
2006 Bahrain ferry disaster ''al-Dana'' capsizes off the coast of
Bahrain killing at least forty-eight people.
*
March 30 - After being held
hostage in
Iraq for nearly 3 months,
United States American freelance journalist Jill Carroll is released unharmed.
April
*
April 2 - The 2006
Major League Baseball season begins on
Opening Day with the
Chicago White Sox beating the
Cleveland Indians at home, 10-4.
*
April 2 - For the first time in 30 years, Indiana will officially observe Daylight Saving Time. [http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html]
*
April 3 - Tornadoes, large hail, and strong winds swept through eight states in the US, causing major damage and 27 deaths.
*
April 4 - Republican leader
Tom Delay announces his retirement from the US congress.
*
April 5 - A once ever event occoured at 2 minutes and 3 seconds past 1 o'clock in the morning. Time was written as: 01:02:03 04/05/06
*
April 5 -
Katie Couric announces her departure from
NBC and
The Today Show in
May 2006 and will be moving to
NBC's rival,
CBS.
April 5 is also her 15th anniversary from her start on
The Today Show.
Predicted and scheduled events
{{future}}
April
*
April 7 -
European Union EU citizens are now able to register
.eu domain names, which replaced the old eu.int
TLD on
December 7 2005.
*
April 9 -
Peruvians will elect the successor of
Alejandro Toledo in the
Peruvian national election, 2006
*
April 9 -
Italy Italians will vote for new Parliament as
Silvio Berlusconi defends his premiership in the
Italian general elections, 2006
*
April 9 - Election in
Hungary; first turn
*
April 11 -
ESA's
Venus Express spaceprobe begins to enter
Venus orbit.
*
April 15 - New series of
Doctor Who starts at 7pm,
BBC One.
*
April 23 - Election in
Hungary; second turn
*
April 23 -
Census in
Ireland.
*
April 30 -
Song (airline) Song, a subsdiary of
Delta Air Lines will shift services to its mainline.
May
*
May 4 -
UK local elections, 2006 - Local elections to be held across
England.
*
May 6 - The 132nd of The
Kentucky Derby will take place at
Churchill Downs in
Louisville,
Kentucky.
*
May 20 - The 131st Running of the
Preakness Stakes will take place at
Pimlico Race Course in
Baltimore,
Maryland.
*
May 20 - The
Eurovision Song Contest 2006 grand final is to take place in
Athens,
Greece.
*
May 20 -
Minneapolis opens its new central library.
*
May 21 -
Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 Referendum in Montenegro on whether to remain with
Serbia in the
Serbia and Montenegro State Union of Serbia and Montenegro or become independent.
*
May 22 -
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest, opens its fifth runway.
*
May 25-
May 28 -
Pope Benedict XVI's pilgrimage to
Poland
* Parliamentary elections in the
Czech Republic
* Census in
Canada
June
*
June 9 -
Football World Cup 2006 in
Germany starts with the first game (
Germany national football team Germany v
Costa Rica national football team Costa Rica) held at
Munich World Cup Stadium (aka
Allianz Arena).
*
June 10 - The 138th Running of the
Belmont Stakes will be held at
Belmont Park in
Elmont, New York.
*
June 17 - Local government elections in
Slovakia.
*
June 29 - 50th anniversary of
United States President
Dwight D. Eisenhower signing the
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which created funding for the
Interstate Highway System.
July
*
July 1 - Electronic equipment imported to or sold in the European Union will have to be lead free
Soldering soldered, to comply with the
RoHS Directive Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive.
*
July 2 -
Mexican general election, 2006 Presidential election in
Mexico.
*
July 3 to
July 9 -
Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI's apostolic journey to
Spain.
*
July 8 - The second series of
Doctor Who starring
David Tennant finishes today with the episode [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_%28Doctor_Who%29[Doomsday]].
*
July 9 -
FIFA World Cup 2006 Final Game at the
Olympic Stadium, Berlin.
*
July 11-
Microsoft will terminate support for
Windows 98 SE and
Windows ME.
*
July 20 -
World Jump Day will take place.
*
July 23 -
Microsoft is scheduled to release the
Windows Vista Operating System to PC vendors, such as HP and Dell.
*
July 28 -
Alejandro Toledo concludes his term as
President of Peru.
*
July 29 to
August 5 -
World Congress of Esperanto in
Florence,
Italy.
August
*
August 8 - Census in
Australia.
*
August 13 to
August 18 - The
XVI International AIDS Conference will be held in
Toronto,
Canada.
*
August 14 to
August 25 - The 26th General Assembly of the
International Astronomical Union in
Prague,
Czech Republic.
*
August 19 to
September 3 -
FIBA Basketball World Championship 2006 scheduled to be held in
Japan. Qualifying matches scheduled to be held in
Sapporo, Hokkaido Sapporo,
Sendai, Miyagi Sendai,
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Hamamatsu, and
Hiroshima, Hiroshima Hiroshima, followed by the final tournament at
Saitama Super Arena in
Saitama, Saitama Saitama City.
September
*
September 16 -
Oktoberfest begins.
*
September 17 -
Sweden general election, 2006:
Sweden holds elections for the
Riksdag.
*
September 19-20 -
2006 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group,
Singapore
*
September 26 - Scheduled reopening date of the
Louisiana Superdome in
New Orleans, LA after repairs to the Superdome from damages sustained during
Hurricane Katrina.
October
*
October 2 -
Brazilian General Elections, 2006:
Presidential election,
National Congress of Brazil Legislative: full renewal of the Chamber of Deputies and renewal of one third of the Federal Senate (one of each state's three seats); State sphere:
Gubernatorial elections, renewal of the State Legislative body (State Assembly) in all states.
*
October 3 -
Oktoberfest ends.
*
October 15 -
Chief Justice of Japan Akira Machida will be forced to retire upon reaching the age of 70.
*
October 24 -
NASA's
MESSENGER spacecraft to
Mercury (planet) Mercury makes the first of two
Venus (planet) Venus flybys.
November
*
November 3 - The
Borat movie starring
Sacha Baron Cohen is scheduled to release.
*
November 7 -
United States midterm elections, 2006 Midterm elections will be held in the
United States.
*
November 8 -
Transit of Mercury.
*
November 22 - A
General Election will take place for the
House of Keys in the
Isle of Man.
*
November 28-
November 29 29 - The
NATO Summit 2006 will take place in
Latvia.
*
November 30 - The
2006 Atlantic hurricane season and the
2006 Pacific hurricane season will officially end.
*
Sony is expected to release the
Playstation 3 sometime in
November
December
*
December 1 - The 15th
Asian Games will be held in
Doha, Qatar until
December 15.
*
December 6 - Last surviving adult-aged silent screen star, the Canadian-born
Barbara Kent, becomes a
centenarian.
Major religious holidays
*
January 6 - Feast of
Epiphany or Dia de los Reyes Magos (Day of the Magi Kings).
*
January 7 -
Christmas in the
Russian Orthodox church calendar.
*
January 10 -
Islamic festival of
Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on
January 12)
*
January 11 -
Vaikunta Ekadasi is observed by
Hindus. This is the day when the Gates of Heaven open and remain open for the next ten days.
*
January 14 -
Mahayana Buddhist New Year.
*
January 14 -
Pongal Harvest Festival in
Tamil Nadu.
*
January 15 - Maatu Pongal, Festival of
Cows in
Tamil Nadu.
*
January 16 - Uzhavar Tirunaal,
Farmer's Day in
Tamil Nadu.
*
January 29 -
Year of the Dog, 4704, begins. Chinese/Asian New Year.
*
January 31 -
Muslim New Year.
*
February 9 - Day of
Ashurah.
*
February 13 -
Tu Bishvat
*
February 28 -
Mardi Gras
*
March 13 - Jewish holiday of
Purim begins at sunset.
*
March 14 -
Sikh New Year.
*
March 17 -
St. Patrick's Day
*
March 21 -
Bahai New Year.
*
March 30 -
Hindu New Year.
*
April 5 -
Qingming Festival
*
April 12 -
Pesach or
Passover begins at sunset, continues for a week.
*
April 13 - Theravada Buddhist New Year.
*
April 13 -
Punjabi New Year
*
April 14 -
Good Friday in the Western Church Calendar.
*
April 14 - Puththaandu
Tamil people Tamil New Year in the Tamil Calendar, observed by people in
Tamil Nadu.
*
April 16 -
Easter in the Western Church Calendar.
*
April 21 -
Good Friday in the Eastern Church Calendar.
*
April 23 -
Easter in the Eastern Church Calendar.
*
September 22 - Jewish holiday of
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Continues until nightfall of the 24th.
*
September 23 - First day of
Ramadan.
*
October 1 - Jewish holiday of
Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Ends at nightfall of the
October 2 2nd.
*
October 24 - Islamic festival of
Eid ul-Fitr.
*
October 26 - Hindu festival of
Diwali.
*
December 25 -
Christmas in the Western Church Calendar.
*
December 31 - Islamic festival of
Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on
January 2,
2007)
Unknown/undecided dates
*
Brazil will officially adopt the
Digital TV System (Probably Japanese, or a new system, the Brazilian Digital TV System)
*
Al Jazeera will launch its new satellite service, Al Jazeera International, in Europe, Asia, and North America sometime during the spring.
*
White House proposed
Plebiscite to decide whether
Puerto Rico will mantain its territorial status or change to another status (to be decided then in other referenda)
* The
European Space Agency plans to launch the
KEO space
time capsule
*
Irish referendum on the European Constitution: The
Republic of Ireland is expected to hold a referendum on the
European Constitution.
* The new
Wembley Stadium is expected to open.
* A bridge linking
Savannakhet,
Laos, over the
Mekong, to
Mukdahan,
Thailand is expected to be completed late in the year.
* The
Stardust Resort & Casino in
Las Vegas, Nevada will officially close in late 2006 after 55 years of continuous operation to make way for the $4 billion dollar '''Echelon Place''' a new mega resort scheduled to officially open in
2010.
*
NASA plans to launch
STS-115 using
Space Shuttle Atlantis. It will be the nineteenth station flight. The launch is currently scheduled for August unless
STS-121 is not launched on schedule.
* The new
Suvarnabhumi Airport in
Bangkok, Thailand opens, replacing Don Muang as Bangkok's primary airport.
*
Sony's
PlayStation 3, originally expected to come out in the spring, will come out close to the
Christmas season.
* Boston's
Big Dig, or Central Artery/Tunnel Project will be substantially completed after 15 years of construction, totaling $14.6 billion.
Deaths
''Main article:
Deaths in 2006''
January
*
January 1 -
Henry Magdoff, American political commentator (b.
1913)
*
January 1 -
Bryan Harvey (musician), American singer and guitarist (b.
1956)
*
January 2 -
Steve Rogers (rugby league footballer) Steve Rogers, Australian rugby player (b.
1954)
*
January 3 -
Bill Skate,
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b.
1954)
*
January 4 -
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b.
1946)
*
January 4 -
Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b.
1912)
*
January 6 -
Lou Rawls, American singer (b.
1933)
*
January 6 -
Hugh Thompson, counselor and war hero (b.
1943)
*
January 7 -
Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and explorer (b.
1912)
*
January 8 -
Tony Banks, Baron Stratford Tony Banks, British politician (b.
1943)
*
January 9 -
Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b.
1937)
*
January 14 -
Shelley Winters, American actress (b.
1920)
*
January 15 -
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah,
Emir of Kuwait (b.
1926)
*
January 16 -
Stanley Biber, American physician (b.
1923)
*
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 28 -
Yitzchak Kaduri, Iraqi-born rabbi (b.
1894?)
*
January 30 -
Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of
Martin Luther King, Jr. (b.
1927)
February
*
February 4 -
Betty Friedan, American feminist (b.
1921)
*
February 4 -
Al Lewis, American actor (b.
1910?)
*
February 8 -
Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b.
1914)
*
February 9 -
Ron Greenwood, English footballer and manager (b.
1921)
*
February 10 -
Jay Dee, American hip hop record producer and MC (b.
1974)
*
February 11 -
Peter Benchley, American author (b.
1940)
*
February 11 -
Jockey Shabalala, South African singer with
Ladysmith Black Mambazo (b.
1943)
*
February 15 -
Sun Yun-suan,
Premier of China (b.
1913)
*
February 16 -
Betty Heathfield, British mining community activist (b.
1927)
*
February 16 -
Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b.
1925)
*
February 16 -
Mike Durham, Pro wrestler known as
Johnny Grunge (b.
1966)
*
February 17 -
Ray Barretto, American Latin-Jazz and Salsa musician (b.
1929)
*
February 20 -
Curt Gowdy, American sports broadcaster (b.
1919)
*
February 24 -
Octavia Butler, American author (b.
1947)
*
February 24 -
Don Knotts, American actor (b.
1924)
*
February 24 -
Dennis Weaver, American actor (b.
1924)
*
February 25 -
Darren McGavin, American actor (b.
1922)
*
February 27 -
Ferenc Bene, Hungarian football player (b.
1944)
March
*
March 1 -
Harry Browne, American writer, politician, and investment analyst (b.
1933)
*
March 1 -
Jack Wild, British actor (b.
1952)
*
March 6 -
Kirby Puckett, baseball player (b.
1960)
*
March 6 -
Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of
Christopher Reeve (b.
1961)
*
March 7 -
Gordon Parks, American artist (b.
1912)
*
March 9 -
John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b.
1915)
*
March 9 -
Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian computer programmer (b.
1957)
*
March 10 -
Anna Moffo, American soprano (b.
1930, not
1932)
*
March 11 -
Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (b.
1931)
*
March 11 -
Slobodan Milošević,
President of Serbia (b.
1941)
*
March 12 -
István Gyulai, Hungarian sports official (b.
1943)
*
March 12 -
Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b.
1947)
*
March 13 -
Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b.
1925)
*
March 13 -
Jimmy Johnstone, footballer (b.
1944)
*
March 14 -
Lennart Meri,
President of Estonia (b.
1929)
*
March 15 -
Red Storey, Canadian footballer and hockey referee (b.
1918)
*
March 17 -
Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (b.
1913)
*
March 17 -
Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (b.
1913)
*
March 19 -
Mohammad Ali (actor) Mohammad Ali, Pakistani actor (b.
1936)
*
March 23 -
Cindy Walker, American songwriter (b.
1918)
*
March 24 - Jaroslava Moserová, Czech doctress, writer and politician (chairman of UNESCO in 1990's)
*
March 25 -
Buck Owens, American singer and songwriter (b.
1929)
*
March 25 -
RocÃo Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b.
1944)
*
March 25 -
Richard Fleischer, American Film Director (b.
1916)
*
March 26 -
Paul Dana, American race car driver (b.
1975)
*
March 27 -
Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b.
1921)
*
March 27 -
Lyn Nofziger, American press secretary and political adviser to
Ronald Reagan (b.
1924)
*
March 28 -
Caspar Weinberger,
United States Secretary of Defense (b.
1917)
*
March 31 -
Rudolf Vrba,
Auschwitz survivor (b.
1924)
April
*
April 2 -
Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of freedom fighter
Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b.
1913)
*
April 4 -
Denis Donaldson, Irish Republican informer (b.
1950)
*
April 5 -
Gene Pitney, American singer (b.
1941)
Fictional references
*
March 28 to
March 29 - The events of the ''
Doctor Who'' episodes ''
Aliens of London'' and ''
World War Three (Doctor Who) World War Three'' take place.
* September - The events of ''
Doctor Who'' episode ''
Boom Town (Doctor Who) Boom Town'' take place.
*
December 24 to
December 25 - The events of ''
Doctor Who'' episode ''
The Christmas Invasion'' take place.
* The events of
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow take place.
* The events of the third season of the
Transformers series Transformers cartoon take place.
* In
2001, 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 on ''
South Park''.
* The central character in the
BBC series
Life on Mars (television) Life on Mars came from 2006 before he travelled through time to
1973.
*The
Nintendo 64 N64 video game,
BattleTanx: Global Assault took place during this year.
*According to Penny Galactica's robot UNI in
Disney Adventures'
Kid Gravity comic, this will be the first year we build cities on
Mars.
*In
Seven Ancient Wonders, a book by
Matthew Reilly, March 20th will be the day of the coming of
Tartarus.
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January 4: The English language version of arrived at the 900,000 article mark.
*
January 10: '' ®'' became a registered trademark of
Wikimedia Foundation.
*
January 23:
Jimbo Wales [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-January/037980.html announced] the appointment of a new
:Arbitration Committee, increasing the committee size to 15.
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GMT:
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Jordanhill railway station". See also
m:Wikimedia press releases/English hits milestone 1 million articles.
talk:1m-PR-en lists those who were going for it.
*
March 19: the
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