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1st - Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as President of Finland for the second and last time.
1st - English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
4th - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
6th - South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.
9th - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
10th - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
10th - Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.
11th - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
16th - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council.
20th - Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana crop.
20th - Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.
21st - Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage.
22nd - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
22nd - BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.
22nd - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
23rd - The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply.
24th - Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
24th - Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate.
25th - Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
25th - Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
26th - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
26th - The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital.
27th - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
28th - At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.
30th - Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
30th - UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.