2006 Calendar
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2006 Historical Event(s)
January 29, 2006
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
March 10, 2006
– The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
June 26, 2006
– Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
July 11, 2006
– 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
August 31, 2006
– Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
November 21, 2006
– Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
December 4, 2006
– An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time by Tsunemi Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km south of Tokyo.
December 6, 2006
– NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
December 18, 2006
– The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
December 30, 2006
– Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.
Who Were Born On 2006?
June 3, 2006
– Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch royal family
June 18, 2006
– Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal
September 6, 2006
– Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese imperial family member
October 25, 2006
– Krista and Tatiana Hogan, Canadian craniopagus conjoined twins