2006

2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.

2006 Winter OlympicsTwitterNintendo WiiIAU definition of planet2006 Montenegrin independence referendum2006 Yogyakarta earthquakeGol Transportes Aéreos Flight 19072006 FIFA World Cup
From left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro votes to declare independence from Serbia; The 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany is won by Italy; Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 crashes in the Amazon rainforest after a mid-air collision with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet; The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake kills over 5,700 people; The IAU votes on the definition of "planet", which demotes Pluto and other Kuiper belt objects and redefines them as "dwarf planets".
Shelley Winters
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Coretta Scott King
Betty Friedan
Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa
Slobodan Milošević
Rocío Dúrcal
Proof
John Kenneth Galbraith
Floyd Patterson
Karel Appel
Charles Haughey
Ryutaro Hashimoto
June Allyson
Elizabeth Schwartzkopf
Glenn Ford
Bob Mathias
Steve Irwin
P. W. Botha
Jack Palance
Ferenc Puskás
Hassan Gouled Aptidon
James Brown
Gerald Ford
Saddam Hussein