Historical Events for January 2006
| ◄ Dec January Feb ► | ||||||
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 | ||||
◄ 2005 2006 2007 ► | ||||||
Months in 2006: February March April May June July August September October November December
Results 1 - 14 of 14
1st - Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometre peaked at 45 degrees celsius, sparking bushfires and power outages.
4th - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
8th - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
12th - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
12th - Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
12th - The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
12th - The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
16th - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
19th - A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
19th - The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
19th - Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously.
22nd - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
25th - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
26th - Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.
