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[baguhin] December 2006
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December 11: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pictured) opens a conference aiming to "review the Holocaust".December 11: In his final speech in office, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan encourages the United States to provide global leadership whilst respecting multilateralism.December 11: Christer Fuglesang, the first Scandinavian in space, and six other astronauts on mission STS-116 arrive at the International Space Station.December 10: Incumbent Igor Smirnov wins presidential elections in the internationally unrecognized state of Transnistria.December 10: Former Chilean head of state Augusto Pinochet (age 91) dies one week after suffering a heart attack.December 9 Marc Ravalomanana is re-elected as President of Madagascar.
December 10: Christer Fuglesang becomes the first Scandinavian astronaut in space as the Space Shuttle Discovery (pictured) is launched on a mission to the International Space Station.December 8: Ethiopia begins to intervene in the Somali Civil War.December 6: The Iraq Study Group releases its final report, describing the situation in the Iraq War as "grave and deteriorating" and making seventy-nine policy recommendations.December 5: The Fijian military under Commodore Frank Bainimarama takes control of the government.December 5: After killing nearly six hundred people in the Philippines, Typhoon Durian (Reming) strikes Vietnam, leading to over eighty more deaths.December 4: Hugo Chávez is re-elected as President of Venezuela.December 4: Fijian troops occupy the police headquarters in Suva, as their conflict with the government continues to escalate.- December 3: The Sudan People's Liberation Army clashes with government forces in Malakal, Sudan, resulting in more than three hundred deaths.
- December 1: The 15th Asian Games, a multi-sport event with forty-five countries participating, open in Doha, Qatar.
- December 1: Typhoon Durian (Reming) strikes the Philippines and Vietnam, killing more than four hundred people.
[baguhin] November 2006
- November 28: Economist and former Finance Minister Rafael Correa wins the Ecuadorian presidential election after a run-off.
- November 23: A series of car bombs and mortar attacks kills more than 200 people in Sadr City, Iraq.
- November 23: The Socialist Party gains in Dutch elections, while Jan Peter Balkenende's Christian Democrats retain their plurality in the Tweede Kamer.
- November 23: Former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko dies in a hospital in London after being poisoned with polonium.
- November 21: Maoist rebels in Nepal sign a peace treaty with the government, officially ending a ten-year civil war.
- November 21: An international consortium signs a deal to formally launch ITER, a project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor.
- November 21: Pierre Amine Gemayel, Minister of Industry in Lebanon, is assassinated in Beirut.
- November 21: Former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko is critically ill in a London hospital after a suspected thallium poisoning.
- November 21: Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, winner of five Olympic, eleven World Championship and ten Commonwealth gold medals, announces his retirement at the age of twenty-four.
- November 18: A Malagasy general fails in his military coup attempt against President Marc Ravalomanana.
- November 16: Ségolène Royal wins the Socialist Party's nomination for President of France in next year's election to become France's first female presidential candidate representing a major party.
- November 15: Joseph Kabila is declared winner of the election for the presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo. His opponent, Jean-Pierre Bemba, alleges fraud.
- November 14: The Parliament of South Africa votes to legalize same-sex marriage.
- November 10: Nadarajah Raviraj, a human rights lawyer and legislator from the Tamil National Alliance, is assassinated in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- November 9: A new Constitution of Kyrgyzstan adopted by the Joghorku Keneš is signed into law by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
- November 8: Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense; Robert Gates is nominated as his replacement.
- November 8: The Democratic Party wins control of both chambers of the United States Congress.
- November 8: Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense; Robert Gates is nominated as his replacement.
- November 8: Margaret Chan is elected as the next Director-General of the World Health Organization.
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[baguhin] Hunyo
- June 30: A controversial new law on authors' rights is approved by the French Parliament.
- June 29: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that planned Guantanamo Bay military tribunals are illegal.
- June 29: Democrats 66 prompts a Dutch coalition cabinet collapse over the Ayaan Hirsi Ali affair, resulting in early elections in November.
- June 29: Women in Kuwait participate in general elections for the first time.
- June 28: The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations.
- June 28: Israel launches a major incursion into the Gaza Strip to free captured soldier Gilad Shalit.
- June 27: Nguyễn Minh Triết is elected by the National Assembly as President of Vietnam, and appoints Nguyễn Tấn Dũng as Prime Minister.
- June 26: Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri of East Timor resigns in the wake of a national crisis.
- June 25: The world's two leading steel producers, Arcelor and Mittal, announce their merger.
- June 25: Billionaire Warren Buffett pledges a record US$30.7 billion in shares to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- June 24: The death penalty is abolished in the Philippines.
- June 24: The U.S. Navy concludes Valiant Shield, its largest Pacific military exercise since the Vietnam War.
- June 22: 2014 Winter Olympics bids are approved for Sochi, Salzburg, and Pyeongchang.
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[baguhin] Enero
- Enero 27
- Germany's former President, Johannes Rau, has died at the age of 75.
- Enero 25
- Enero 23
- In the Canadian federal election Stephen Harper's Conservatives defeat Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberals and will form a minority government.
- The new Emir of Kuwait, Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, agrees to abdicate after only ten days on the throne.
- At least 39 people die in the Bioče train disaster, Montenegro's worst-ever train accident.
- The Ford Motor Company announces plans to lay off nearly a quarter of its North American workforce.
- Enero 21
- Enero 20
- Final results of the Iraqi elections are released, with the United Iraqi Alliance winning 128 of 275 seats in the National Assembly.
- Enero 19: The New Horizons spacecraft is launched successfully from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a nine-year mission to Pluto.
- Enero 18: Alleged fraud prompts heavy sales of livedoor stock, forcing the Tokyo Stock Exchange to close early for the first time.
- Enero 16: Tarja Halonen and Sauli Niinistö take the first round of the Finnish presidential election.
- Enero 15
- Socialist Michelle Bachelet is elected the first female President of Chile.
- Voting begins in the Finnish presidential election.
- The Stardust sample return capsule lands near Dugway Proving Ground with particles from Comet Wild 2.
- Sheikh Jaber, the Emir of Kuwait, dies after 28 years in office, and is succeeded by the Crown Prince, Sheikh Saad.
- Enero 14
- A U.S. missile strike targets al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri but instead kills 18 civilians in the tribal areas of Pakistan. The Pakistani government protests the strike as a violation of Pakistani sovereignty.
- Augustine Volcano in Alaska erupts for the first time in almost two decades.
- Enero 12
- Hundreds of pilgrims are killed in a Hajj stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual.
- Mehmet Ali Ağca, who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, is released from prison.
- The first annual ministerial meeting of the APPCDC climate conference is held in Sydney, Australia.
- Enero 9
- Doctors treating Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attempt to wake him from an induced coma.
- U.S. Senate confirmation hearings continue for United States Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito.
- Enero 7
- Embattled U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay officially resigns from his leadership post.
- Doctors say Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chances of survival from his massive stroke are "very high" but that he will likely suffer permanent cognitive impairment.
- Following controversy over his confessed alcoholism, Charles Kennedy resigns as leader of the British Liberal Democrats party.
- Enero 6: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization warns that 11 million are threatened by the Horn of Africa food crisis.
- Enero 5
- Microsoft releases a high priority fix for the Windows Metafile vulnerability.
- Fifteen bodies are recovered from the Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof collapse in Bavaria, Germany.
- Reports suggest Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may never recover from a hemorrhagic stroke.
- Enero 4
- Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai and PM of the United Arab Emirates, dies.
- Twelve of thirteen trapped coal miners are found dead in the West Virginia Sago Mine in the U.S.
- Russia agrees to resume the supply of gas to Ukraine.
- Enero 3: U.S. lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to three felony counts in a political corruption scandal.
- Enero 2
- Ugandan presidential candidate Kizza Besigye is released from prison.
- One coal miner is rescued from the Sago Mine accident in the U.S. state of West Virginia despite initial reports of 12 survivors.
- Several exploits of a severe Microsoft Windows security vulnerability spread over the Internet, with no patch from Microsoft available.
- Enero 1
- Russia cuts gas supplies to Ukraine, leading to a significant drop in gas imports for many European countries.
- Tropical Storm Zeta (pictured) continues activity in the Atlantic Ocean, becoming only the second tropical cyclone on record to exist across two calendar years in the Atlantic.