What historical events that happened in 2006?

Answer 1

January 4, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

January 15, NASA's Stardust Airborne Laboratory 'sample return capsule' successfully landed at the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range. Stardust was launched February 7, 1999 to collect dust samples from Comet Wild 2 and other cosmic dust.

January 16, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

January 22, Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.

January 26, Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.

February 22, Six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing 53 million pounds (about $92.5 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

February 24, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.

March 1, the English Wikipedia celebrated the creation of its millionth article, about the Jordanhill railway station in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland. The millionth English language article is in addition to the 29 million articles in the 286 other languages in which Wikipedia is being edited and written.

March 11, Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.

March 20, Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, devastating towns and crops. Cyclone Larry was regarded as the most powerful cyclone to affect Queensland in almost a century.

March 25, Protesters in Minsk, demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Alaksandar Kazulin was arrested.

April 2, Over 60 tornadoes break out in the central US. Hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.

April 22, Thousands protest at the Narayanhity Royal Palace in Kathmandu, Nepal. Several hundred are injured after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters.

April 24, King Gyanendra of Nepal gives in to the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.

May 26, The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,000 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.

June 3, Montenegro formally declares independence from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

June 5, Serbia formally declares independence from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

June 18, The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.

June 21, Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.

July 11, There are 209 people killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.

July 31, Fidel Castro of Cuba hands over power temporarily to brother Raul Castro.

August 24, The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" designating Pluto as a Dwarf Planet.

September 4, Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter", is killed while filming a documentary on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

September 25, The New Orleans Saints return to the Superdome for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. The Saints beat the Atlanta Falcons 23-3

November 5, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging for the killing of 148 Shiites from Dujail.

November 10, Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.

November 21, Pierre Amine Gemayel, lawyer and Lebanese politician, son of former President Amine Gemayel, grandson of politician and former Member of Parliament, was assassinated. He was 34 years old.

November 23, Russian political refugee Alexander Litvinenko dies in London after poisoning with what is believed to be radionuclide polonium-210. It was alleged that he was poisoned by KGB agents. He was 44 years old.

November 30, Approximately 1,500 are believed dead in the Philippines and Vietnam in the wake of Typhoon Durian.

December 1, The XV Asian Games open in Doha, Qatar. Thirty nine events are scheduled over the next 15 days.

December 7, The Hard Rock Cafe chain of cafes, hotels and casinos, with its collection of rock and roll memorabilia, is purchased by the Seminole Tribe of Florida for for $965 million US dollars.

December 14, The first report of Operation Paget, the London Metropolitan Police inquiry into the death of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul, is published.

December 30, Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging at an Iraqi army base in Kadhimiya, a neighborhood of northeast Baghdad.

December 31, Millions gather in their respective countries to greet 2007 as it travels around the world. Kiritimati Island (Christmas Island) is in the world's farthest forward time zone, and is one of the first inhabited places on Earth to experience the New Year