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Historical Events

Results 1 - 15 of 15

1st - The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
3rd - Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
3rd - Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
5th - The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA).
9th - Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
9th - George Preca is canonised as the first Maltese saint in history.
13th - 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
16th - A large earthquake (7.4 on the Richter scale) occurs near New Zealand.
17th - The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef
18th - The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
21st - The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
21st - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
22nd - Results from the Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 are announced. 55.4% of voters vote to become independent from the Serbia and Montenegro Union.
26th - The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
27th - The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 64 of 64

1st - Big Hawk, American rapper (b.1969)
1st - Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
1st - Rob Lacey, Christian Author. (b. 1962)
2nd - Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (b. 1933)
3rd - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
3rd - Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
3rd - Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
5th - Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)
6th - Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
6th - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
6th - Grant McLennan, co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (b. 1958)
6th - Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (b. 1958)
7th - Richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (b.1943)
7th - Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918)
7th - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943)
8th - Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (b. 1938)
10th - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
10th - A. M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (b. 1922)
10th - Soraya, Colombian-American singer (b. 1969)
10th - Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
11th - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
11th - Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921)
11th - Yossi Banai, Israeli singer (b. 1932)
12th - Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920)
13th - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
13th - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
14th - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
14th - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
14th - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
17th - Cy Feuer, American playwright (b. 1911)
17th - Eric Forth, British Member of Parliament (b. 1944)
17th - Captain Nichola Goddard, Canadian soldier (b. 1980)
18th - Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy" (b. 1972)
19th - Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)
21st - Spencer Clark, American racecar driver (b. 1987)
21st - Katherine Dunham, American dancer (b. 1909)
21st - Cherd Songsri, Thai film director (b. 1931)
21st - Billy Walker, American singer (b. 1929)
22nd - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
22nd - Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
23rd - Clifford Antone, American businessman (b. 1949)
23rd - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
23rd - Frits Bernard, American activist (b. 1920)
23rd - Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
24th - Henry Bumstead, American art director (b. 1915)
24th - Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (b. 1930)
25th - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
26th - Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
26th - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919)
27th - Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
27th - Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
27th - Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
27th - Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)
27th - Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
28th - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
29th - Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
29th - Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (b. 1930)
30th - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
30th - Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
30th - David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
31st - Ryan Bennett, broadcast commentator (b. 1970)
31st - Miguel Berrocal, sculptor (b. 1933)
31st - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
31st - Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder (b. 1930)