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2006 Calendar

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•  January 12, 2006 – The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
•  January 29, 2006 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  March 22, 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
•  April 27, 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
•  May 21, 2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
•  June 3, 2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro’s formal declaration of independence.
•  July 27, 2006 – The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
•  October 22, 2006 – A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
•  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.
•  December 30, 2006 – The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.

•  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