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2006 Calendar

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•  January 16, 2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state.
•  January 25, 2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
•  January 29, 2006 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  February 19, 2006 – A methane explosion in coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
•  July 12, 2006 – The Hezbollah initiate Operation True Promise.
•  July 31, 2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro.
•  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.
•  November 10, 2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush and annonces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.
•  December 15, 2006 – First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
•  December 18, 2006 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.

•  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