55 events found for 2006
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lanka Air Force air strike.
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in…
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on…
Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to…
Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight…
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire…
Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, bound for Hartsfield–Jackson…
Edvard Munch's famous painting, The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
The Waziristan Accord is signed between the Government of Pakistan and local Taliban militants in North Waziristan,…
Space Shuttle Program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-115 to resume assembling the International Space…
Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.
An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he…
The CW Television Network debuts in the US, following the merger of UPN and The WB.
The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.