2006 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2006?
- January 19, 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
- January 27, 2006 – Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
- January 29, 2006 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 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 25, 2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
- April 11, 2006 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
- May 5, 2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
- May 13, 2006 – 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
- May 18, 2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
- June 5, 2006 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
- June 26, 2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
- July 5, 2006 – North Korea launches at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
- August 31, 2006 – Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
- September 17, 2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.
- September 19, 2006 – The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
- 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.
- November 5, 2006 – Saddam Hussein, 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 the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
- December 11, 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
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