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2006 Calendar
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  • 515 BC - Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem.
  • 1664 - New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.
  • 1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time
  • 1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts in the US) are founded in the US.
  • 1913 - Canberra becomes the capital of Australia.
  • 1928 - In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people.
  • 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
  • 1933 - Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats."
  • 1938 - Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.
  • 1940 - Winter War: Finland signs a harsh peace treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and remaining population are immediately evacuated.
  • 1947 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
  • 1951 - The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the USA for the first time.
  • 1956 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for the first time (500.24)
  • 1958 - In Hilversum, Netherlands, André Claveau wins the third Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep, my love).
  • 1960 - A fire at a chemical plant in Pusan, Korea kills 68.
  • 1967 - Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
  • 1968 - Mauritius achieves independence.
  • 1987 - Les Misérables opens on Broadway.
  • 1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the British Commonwealth.
  • 1993 - Several bombs explode in Bombay, India killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
  • 1993 - North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
  • 1994 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
  • 1994 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
  • 1997 - Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
  • 1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
  • 2002 - In Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison.
  • 2003 - Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia, assassinated in Belgrade.
  • 2003-Elizabeth Smart, a kidnapped teenager is found and returned to her family in Utah.
  • 2004 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
  • 2005 - Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, stepped down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.