This article is about the year 2006. For the album, see
2006 (album) .
From top left, clockwise: the2006 Winter Olympics are held inTurin , Italy; Israel and Lebanon enterconflict ;train bombings inMumbai kill 209 people; Montenegrovotes to declare independence from Serbia; the2006 FIFA World Cup is held in Germany and is won by Italy;Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 crashes in theAmazon rainforest after a mid-air collision with anEmbraer Legacy 600 business jet; anearthquake inYogyakarta kills over 5,700 people; theIAU votes on thedefinition ofplanet , which demotesPluto and otherKuiper belt objects and redefines them as "dwarf planets ".
Calendar year
2006 (MMVI ) was acommon year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar , the 2006th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 3rd millennium and the21st century , and the 7th year of the2000s decade.
Calendar year
2006 by topic By international organization
2006 was designated as theInternational Year of Deserts and Desertification .[ 1]
February 4 – Egyptian passenger ferry,MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98 , sinks in theRed Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia, killing over 1,000 people.[ 10] February 6 –Stephen Harper is sworn in as thePrime Minister of Canada .[ 11] February 10 –26 – The2006 Winter Olympics are held inTurin, Italy .[ 12] February 17 – Amassive mudslide occurs inSouthern Leyte , Philippines killing an estimated 1,126 people.[ 13] February 22 –2006 al-Askari mosque bombing : Explosions occur at theal-Askari Shrine inSamarra , Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites inShia Islam , causes the escalation ofsectarian violence in Iraq into a full-scale war (theIraqi Civil War of 2006–2008 ).[ 14] April 4 – TheFaddoul Brothers , kidnapped on February 23, 2006, inCaracas , Venezuela, are found dead, causing outrage and mass protests against insecurity in the country.[ 19] [ 20] [ 21] April 11 April 20 – Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a jointuranium enrichment firm on Russian soil;[ 25] de facto termination of the deal.September 1 –Analog terrestrial television is switched off in Luxembourg, being the first country to do so.September 7 September 19 – TheRoyal Thai Army overthrows the government of Prime MinisterThaksin Shinawatra in acoup [ 46] September 22 –Annular solar eclipse , visible in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, parts of Brazil, and the southern Atlantic.September 28 –Typhoon Xangsane passedManila on its way to causing more than 300 deaths, mostly in the Philippines and Vietnam.[ 47] September 29 –Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 , aBoeing 737-800 , collides with anEmbraer Legacy 600 over theAmazon rainforest , killing all 154 occupants on board the 737 whereas all 7 onboard the Legacy survives.[ 48] [ 49] [ 50] New English words and terms [ edit ] ^ "International Years proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly" . 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