2006

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Year 2006 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

In the Chinese calendar, 2006 was the Year of the Dog. Chinese New Year is January 29.

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2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Movies
5 Songs
6 Books
7 Nobel prize winners

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January 4 - Ariel Sharon, prime minister of Israel, has a huge stroke. Ehud Olmert takes over the job until Sharon has better health.
January 16 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the president of Liberia.
January 17 - New Horizons, a NASA spaceship that will go to the minor planet Pluto, takes off.
January 22 - Evo Morales becomes President of Bolivia
January 23 - A train crashed near Bioče, a village nine miles northeast of Podgorica in Serbia and Montenegro, killing 44 people and injuring 184 people after the train's brakes failed. See also Bioče train disaster.
January 29 - Tarja Halonen wins a second term as president of Finland in the Finnish elections.
January 29 - ABC newsman Bob Woodruff's car is blown up while he is reporting in Iraq.
February 10 to 26 - Turin Winter Olympic Games
March 11 - Michelle Bachelet became the first woman president of Chile
[March 25 - About 500,000 people go to the streets in downtown Los Angeles to protest a proposed attack on illegal immigration.
March 29 - Total solar eclipse happens in some parts of the world.
May 15 - Giorgio Napolitano becomes the 11th President of the Italian Republic.
July 5 - North Korea test fires at least 7 missiles.
July 9 - June 9 - the 2006 FIFA World Cup was in Germany, finally the squadra azurra from Italy won the cup.
July 12 - 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict: Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping 2 soldiers and killing 3. Hezbollah declares war against Israel 2 days later.
July 19 - A massive earthquake causes a tsunami in Indonesia.
July 23 - Floyd Landis wins the Tour de France, but later is tested positive for the hormone testosterone, evidence that he had cheated by taking a performance-enhancing drug.
July 23 - Miss Puerto Rico wins Miss Universe 2006.
August - Pluto is changed from being a planet to being a dwarf planet.
September 19 - A non-violent coup d'état was staged by the Royal Thai Army against the Prime Minister of Thailand.
October 10 - Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion
October 13 - Ban Ki-moon elected next United Nations Secretary-General
November 5 - Saddam Hussein is convicted of Crimes against Humanity. He is sentenced to death.
December 10 - Truthiness is selected as Word of the Year by Merriam Webster dictionary.
December 14 - Ban Ki-moon sworn in as United Nations Secretary-General
December 26 - Former US President Gerald Ford dies at the age of 93 years at 6:45 p.m.
December 30 - Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging.