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Months in 2006: January February March April May June July September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 6 of 6

4th - Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and is replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who is sworn in on 23 August.
10th - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes.
23rd - Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
24th - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
27th - Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
31st - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition.

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 45 of 45

1st - Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
1st - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
1st - Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
3rd - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
3rd - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer (b. 1915)
5th - Susan Butcher, American sled dog champion (b. 1954)
7th - Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
9th - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
9th - Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914)
11th - Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)
13th - Tony Jay, English actor (b. 1933)
13th - Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957)
14th - Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
15th - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori queen (b. 1931)
15th - Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player
15th - Doug White, American news anchor
15th - Faas Wilkes, Dutch international footballer
16th - Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944)
16th - Herschel Green, American pilot (b. 1920)
16th - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (b. 1975)
16th - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
18th - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
18th - Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
20th - Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
20th - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
20th - Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (Afghanistan) (b. 1977)
21st - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
21st - Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
22nd - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
23rd - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
24th - Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (b. 1916)
24th - Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b.1979)
26th - Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
26th - Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926)
27th - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
27th - Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)
27th - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
28th - Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
28th - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
30th - Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
30th - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
30th - Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
31st - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
31st - Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
31st - Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)